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European Council Rejects EU Parliament's Amendment Against Three Strikes Rule
Date : 02 Dec 2008
TechdirtEarlier this year, we noted that the European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the idea of various countries implementing any ki read more »
UK Says You Can't Have Some Kinds Of Porn, But It Determines What Kinds
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe Register is covering the rather confusing porn guidelines in the UK, which add certain types of porn to the list of what is il read more »
Will Justin.tv Destroy Sports TV Rights Deals?
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtLast month, Mike wrote about how the English Premier League was making threatening overtones towards Justin.tv, after it discovere read more »
Is Putting Change.gov Under Creative Commons Really A Big Deal?
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtThere's been plenty of attention paid to the news that the website for President-Elect Obama's transition team, Change.gov has bee read more »
It's Not Liquidity Or Solvency That's The Problem: It's Transparency
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtLast month, in writing about the financial crisis, I tried walking through the root causes of how the financial crisis happened an read more »
New Report Says Mass Media Is Really, Really Evil For Kids
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtWell, here we go again. USA Today has a report on a "review" of "173 of the strongest papers" from the past 28 years, which found read more »
Creation Does Not Equal Ownership
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtI'm quite often confused by those who consider themselves big supporters of pure free market capitalism, but who also are adamant read more »
Big Three automaker plans hit congressional desks (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - U.S. automakers started to submit plans demanded by Congress as the Big Three's CEOs and lawmakers gird for debate over read more »
TransUnion: 3Q mortgage delinquencies shoot higher (AP)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - The percentage of people who are two months behind on their mortgages shot up in the third quarter from the same period last read more »
GE and autos ignite Wall Street (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks rose on Tuesday as investors snapped up beaten-down shares after Monday's steep sell-off and news that General El read more »
Tesco shares jump on trading update (AP)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Shares in Tesco PLC jumped more than 6 percent on Tuesday after Britain's largest retailer revealed that its plan to lure in read more »
AP Gets It Wrong Again: Wants To Restrict Certain Reports To 500 Words
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtIt seems that the Associated Press continues to struggle to figure out how to deal with this whole online thing. It's still tryin read more »
Beazer Homes 4Q loss balloons as revenue plunges (AP)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Struggling homebuilder Beazer Homes USA Inc. said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter loss more than tripled as revenue plunged read more »
GE sees fourth-quarter earnings toward low end of range (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - General Electric Co expects fourth-quarter profit toward the low end of its prior forecast and is looking for ways to r read more »
The Best Way To Stop Spam: Kill The Margins
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe battle against spammers rages on, both in the tech and legal worlds, but sadly, with little success. Despite the advances in a read more »
Goldman shares fall on fear of $2 billion fourth-quarter loss (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc shares fell Tuesday on speculation the bank's fourth-quarter loss could be much larger than exp read more »
Investor Sues to Block Mortgage Modifications (BusinessWeek Online)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessBusinessWeek Online - The battle over the mass modifications of troubled mortgages has begun in earnest. On Dec. 1, William Frey, read more »
Staples 3Q profit drops 43 percent on charges (AP)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Office supply retailer Staples Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit dropped 43 percent because of hefty charges from re read more »
Beazer loss widens on housing market deterioration (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Beazer Homes USA posted a wider quarterly loss on Tuesday, citing a further deterioration of the U.S. housing market du read more »
Bargain hunting and auto bailout hope lift stock futures (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stock index futures rose on Tuesday as investors followed Monday's market tumble with a search for beaten-down shares, a read more »
Staples posts higher-than-expected profit (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Staples , the world's largest office products retailer, posted a higher-than-expected third-quarter profit, helped by hi read more »
UK Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Journalist Police Wiretapped
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtAn interesting and important ruling came out of the UK last week, as a journalist had a lawsuit against her thrown out by a judge, read more »
Bargain-hunters fail to save retail sales (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Bargain-hunting holiday shoppers did not save U.S. retail sales in November, which will likely represent a second straig read more »
Global stocks tumble (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - World stocks fell on Tuesday, erasing more than half of last week's gains, while oil hit a 3-1/2 year low and the yen an read more »
HK index tumbles 5 percent on US losses (AP)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Hong Kong's stock index tumbled 5 percent Tuesday, tracking Wall Street's overnight plunge with investors spooked by a dismal read more »