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Toyota likely to report loss in second half (Reuters)
Date : 13 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) is likely to further cut its earnings forecasts and report an operating loss of about 100 bil read more »
Madoff fraud case raises questions about SEC (AP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - The stunning fraud Wall Street pillar Bernard Madoff is accused of has raised questions about whether federal regulators were read more »
For Madoff investors, big returns trumped concerns (AP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - They had known him for years as a golf partner, a family friend. Some were neighbors or fellow members of country clubs on Lo read more »
Retail sales and prices fall again (AP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Signs that the recession will be long and severe mounted Friday with a fresh round of bad economic news, including plunging s read more »
Terry McBride Explains How Nettwerk Puts Fans In Control
Date : 12 Dec 2008
TechdirtMark Glaser has an absolute must-read interview with music label Nettwerk's CEO Terry McBride. Nettwerk, of course, has been one read more »
Stocks may brake for GM, Fed, Goldman (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Wall Street's recovery push from 11-year lows could hit major speed bumps next week as investors fret about the U.S. aut read more »
More Evidence That Online Information Is Not Always Credible
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtApparently, some people have to learn the hard way that not all online information is credible. The Smoking Gun has the rather am read more »
Why Obama Should Change US Trade Policy On Intellectual Property
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtFor years, we've had serious problems with the way the US government has viewed intellectual property when it comes to trade agree read more »
Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud hits other investors (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Investors scrambled to assess potential losses from an alleged $50 billion fraud by Bernard Madoff, a day after the arre read more »
Universal's War On Redbox Continues
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtYou'd think that movie companies would like it when people want to rent and watch their movies -- but surprise, surprise, only if read more »
Iranian Matchmaking Site Shut Down For Promoting Prostitution
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtApparently an Iranian matchmaking site, that pretty clearly seemed set up for the purpose of linking up potential husbands and wiv read more »
FCC Search Page Goes Five Full Years Without An Update
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtCongrats to the FCC -- supposedly the most tech savvy of gov't agencies, for going a full five years without updating its website read more »
Bush may tap bailout fund to aid automakers (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The Bush administration said on Friday it could be willing to provide emergency aid to the teetering U.S. auto industry, read more »
Retail sales drop for 5th month, sentiment up (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Sales at U.S. retailers fell for a fifth straight month in November, the longest decline in at least 16 years, as gasoli read more »
Wall Street climbs on hopes for auto aid, tech support (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks rose on Friday on hopes that a lifeline for struggling U.S. automakers could still materialize, while investors b read more »
Oil slides after US auto bailout collapse (AFP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - Oil prices slid Friday after the collapse of a US automakers bailout plan heightened worries about slowing demand as the glo read more »
Ubisoft's Passive-Aggressive Decision To Drop DRM
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtUbisoft has a long history of bad DRM choices, and tops it off with a usual misunderstanding of DRM, but its latest move is curiou read more »
Retail sales, wholesale prices fall again in Nov. (AP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Consumers reduced their spending at retail stores again in November while the costs of goods before they reach store shelves read more »
Woman Sues TV Station For Featuring Her In A Film About Obesity
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtA UK woman is apparently suing a Croatian TV station for filming her walking in public and including the clip in a documentary abo read more »
GM slashes production in North America (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - General Motors Corp is slashing its first-quarter North American production by 60 percent compared with the same period read more »
European stocks close down on US car sector fears (AP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - European shares closed lower Friday amid a global stocks sell-off on worries the U.S. auto industry may go bust after the Sen read more »
Does It Take A History Lesson To Figure Out You Can Make A Product In Different Colors?
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe amount of attention paid to and interest in industrial design has skyrocketed over the past several years, with people like Jo read more »
In crisis, mutual funds fail to speak up (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Lawmakers are angry and individual investors are livid. But if mutual funds are mad, they sure aren't showing it. read more »
As GM bailout falters, GMAC races its own deadline (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The auto and mortgage finance company GMAC LLC raced on Friday to meet a self-imposed deadline to complete a debt swap t read more »
Man Who Re-Uploaded Viral Baby Swinging Video Charged With Child Abuse?
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtIt's really stunning how often we see the wrong people being blamed for things. It seems like once the internet gets involved, go read more »