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Date : 12 Dec 2008
TechdirtWay back in 2001, Despair Inc., makers of the world's greatest calendar (I've got a bunch) trademarked the emoticon :-( and joking read more »
Stocks cut losses after consumer confidence data (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks cut losses and the Nasdaq briefly turned positive on Friday after data showed a surprise jump in consumer sentime read more »
Consumers' mood improves on massive price drops (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Consumer sentiment improved this month helped by falling gasoline prices, retail discounts and "tumbling" inflation expe read more »
Focus back on Washington in auto bailout saga (Reuters)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The Bush administration warned on Friday that the U.S. economy could not withstand the collapse of the U.S. auto industr read more »
US retail sales slide 1.8% in November (AFP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - US retail sales fell for the fifth straight month in November, dipping 1.8 percent amid weak consumer sentiment and tight cr read more »
Retail sales drop for fifth straight month (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 »
UK Police Want Magic 'This Computer Is Used By A Criminal' Alert Software
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtIt seems that some folks in the UK police department are in their "wishful thinking" mode as we approach the holidays -- and those read more »
A Standoff Over How to Rescue the Housing Market (BusinessWeek Online)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessBusinessWeek Online - What's the best way to stabilize plunging home prices? Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and his staff are con read more »
Should You Refinance Your Mortgage Now? (BusinessWeek Online)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessBusinessWeek Online - Applications for mortgage refinancing tripled in early December on news that the U.S. Federal Reserve will b read more »
Whaddaya Know? DRM For Nokia's 'Comes With Music' Is Cracked
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtIt pretty much goes without saying at this point that any DRM can and will be cracked -- and, of course, once cracked, the content read more »
Why Couldn't Cisco And FSF Come To An Agreement?
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtThere's lots of talk in tech circles about the fact that the Free Software Foundation is now suing Cisco for copyright infringemen read more »
Chinese shares fall, joining regional rout (AP)
Date : 12 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Chinese stocks fell in late trading Friday as investors dumped shares amid mounting pessimism over the government's ability t read more »
Would A Patent's Title Be Classified?
Date : 12 Dec 2008 TechdirtIra writes in to point us to a patent application on a sort of weapons device, where the title of the patent is listed solely as " read more »
Bernard Madoff arrested over alleged $50 billion fraud (Reuters)
Date : 11 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Bernard Madoff, a quiet force on Wall Street for decades, was arrested and charged on Thursday with allegedly running a read more »
Court Lifts Injunction On WiFi Devices In Patent Dispute
Date : 11 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe've been following the story of how CSIRO, an Australian gov't agency, has claimed a patent on WiFi for years. Last year, we we read more »
Forget The Economy, Security Vendor Says Cybercrime Is The Real Threat
Date : 11 Dec 2008 TechdirtYou might have noticed that the economy is in the tank. Something about this "credit crunch" and "recession" and whatnot. But the read more »
CORRECTION: Bernard Madoff arrested over alleged $50 bln fraud (Reuters)
Date : 11 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Bernard Madoff, a longtime fixture on Wall Street, was arrested and charged on Thursday with allegedly running a $50 bil read more »
Perhaps Wall St. Really Is Just One Big Ponzi Scheme
Date : 11 Dec 2008 TechdirtWhile we've always been pretty skeptical of the way Wall St. worked, at least it seemed like there was some semblance of reality o read more »
GM board hired advisers to consider bankruptcy (Reuters)
Date : 11 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - General Motors Corp hired outside advisers to weigh bankruptcy, but the board determined that a filing was not an option read more »
Bank of America to cut up to 35,000 jobs (Reuters)
Date : 11 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Bank of America Corp said on Thursday it plans to eliminate 30,000 to 35,000 jobs over three years, reflecting its pendi read more »
What You've Been Missing Over At The Insight Community
Date : 11 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe've been pretty busy on a bunch of fronts and haven't had much of a chance to mention some of what's going on over at the Insigh read more »
Auto bailout prospects revived in Senate (Reuters)
Date : 11 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Prospects for an auto industry bailout revived in the U.S. Senate on Thursday as surprise negotiations on a compromise m read more »
You Don't Need Us To .tel You This Isn't A Good Idea
Date : 11 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe'd previously discussed the .tel domain, at least in terms of its sheer ridiculousness. The premise of this latest TLD is that p read more »
Wall Street hurt by auto bailout anxiety and financials (Reuters)
Date : 11 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks fell on Thursday on dimming prospects for an automaker bailout, while bleak comments about the banking sector fro read more »
Wall Street falls on auto bailout anxiety (Reuters)
Date : 11 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks fell on Thursday as investors fretted about the fate of the proposed bailout for ailing automakers, offsetting en read more »