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Microsoft Celebrating Antipiracy Day
Date : 21 Oct 2008
TechdirtIt's been just over a month since the International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and yet, that's all I can think about when I hear Micr read more »
Transparency Schmancparency: Bailout Payment Details Blacked Out
Date : 21 Oct 2008 TechdirtWith the financial bailout process under way, our main fear was that the government would royally screw up, often by handing out f read more »
Want To Know Just How Bad Security Is For E-Voting Machines?
Date : 21 Oct 2008 TechdirtYou may recall earlier this month that a judge in New Jersey barred some researchers from releasing their report into the security read more »
Wall Street falls on profit outlook worries (Reuters)
Date : 21 Oct 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks fell on Tuesday on worries over earnings and the profit outlook as the slowing economy sapped business and consum read more »
The Uneasy Balance Between Wikipedia And Truth
Date : 21 Oct 2008 TechdirtI've long been a staunch defender of Wikipedia -- a site that I think many of us find quite useful. Most of the criticisms direct read more »
Regional banks' results hurt by credit crisis (Reuters)
Date : 21 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The credit crisis weighed on results at six large U.S. regional banks located throughout the country, as they reported l read more »
DuPont, Celanese cut outlooks (Reuters)
Date : 21 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - U.S. chemical makers DuPont Co and Celanese Corp cut 2008 earnings forecasts in light of slowing global economic condi read more »
Fed launches new plan to help money market funds (Reuters)
Date : 21 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday launched a new facility to fund purchases of certificates of deposit and commercial read more »
Kerkorian cuts Ford stake, says could sell all shares (Reuters)
Date : 21 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian lowered his stake in Ford Motor Co to 6.1 percent and said he could sell the remain read more »
Security Theater In Action
Date : 21 Oct 2008 TechdirtThe Atlantic has an article in which the author, Jeffrey Goldberg, put various Bruce Schneier theories to the test, to see just ho read more »
Gulf markets higher amid quiet trading (AFP)
Date : 21 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - Gulf stock markets recorded gains on Tuesday for the second day runing as world markets showed further signs of recovery. read more »
Wal-Mart says China sales growth at over 25 percent (Reuters)
Date : 21 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc , the world's largest retailer, has achieved annual sales growth in China of at least 25 percent and read more »
EFF, ACLU Ask News Networks To Stop Sending DMCA Takedown Notices On Political Videos
Date : 21 Oct 2008 TechdirtFollowing the McCain campaign's request to YouTube that it exempt both major presidential campaigns from the traditional process o read more »
Congress Critters Invest In Big Companies; News At Eleven
Date : 21 Oct 2008 TechdirtRed Herring is reporting on the question of where our elected officials invest their own money, noting that an awful lot of it has read more »
No Spam Decrease, Despite The Big Spam Bust
Date : 21 Oct 2008 TechdirtLast week, in talking about the "big" spam bust, we focused on the key question: if this busted group was such a big player in the read more »
No World Of Goo For Europeans?
Date : 20 Oct 2008 TechdirtThe whole concept of staggered regional releases of digital products makes less and less sense in an internet age, but it does cre read more »
Online Communities More Important To Guys
Date : 20 Oct 2008 TechdirtDespite the fact that more women than men are now online, there still seems to be some perception out there that the internet is s read more »
TI outlook misses expectations, shares fall (Reuters)
Date : 20 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc warned that its fourth-quarter results would fall far short of expectations, sending i read more »
UK Phone Buyers: Must Show Passport & Register In National Database
Date : 20 Oct 2008 TechdirtIt appears that the UK is really moving towards a total surveillance state. Along with plans that we've already discussed to moni read more »
American Express profit falls, but beats estimates (Reuters)
Date : 20 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - American Express Co said on Monday third quarter earnings fell more than 20 percent as it set aside more money to cover read more »
Bernanke warms to 2nd stimulus plan (Reuters)
Date : 20 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Monday that another wave of government spending may be needed as read more »
Well, At Least Second Life Won't Need A Gov't Bailout
Date : 20 Oct 2008 TechdirtRemember a couple years ago, when you could hardly go a day without hearing some press story hyping up how the virtual world Secon read more »
Merrill to cut 500 trading jobs: report (Reuters)
Date : 20 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Merrill Lynch & Co Inc, which last month accepted a takeover offer from Bank of America Corp, is set to cut about 500 jo read more »
Wall Street braced for new cuts, weak outlook at Yahoo (Reuters)
Date : 20 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Things went from bad to worse for Yahoo Inc a long time before the financial crisis spurred a new wave of advertising c read more »
RIM shares sag on brokerage reports (Reuters)
Date : 20 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Research In Motion shares fell as much as 10 percent on Monday after one brokerage said retail sales trends for its Blac read more »