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Do Emergency Calls Need More Technology Or More Common Sense?
Date : 02 Dec 2008
TechdirtA guilty verdict in a rape and murder case in the UK is raising some questions about the country's emergency call system and its a read more »
Goldman faces $2 billion loss: report (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc is likely to report a net loss of as much as $2 billion for the fourth quarter, the Wall Street read more »
Boeing engineers approve work contract (Reuters)
Date : 02 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Boeing Co's second-largest union voted on Monday to approve the company's four-year contract offer, avoiding a second da read more »
Oh No, Now The Rapid Internet Growth Is Going To Use Up All Our Electricity
Date : 02 Dec 2008 TechdirtWe recently pointed out yet another telco-funded study warning about how the internet was going to be overwhelmed by massive traff read more »
Singapore Fines The WSJ For Editorials It Considered Contempt Of Court
Date : 01 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe Wall Street Journal is running a story about how it's been fined by Singaporean courts for two editorials the paper published read more »
Canadian Cops Seek To Solve Murder Cases With Online Tips
Date : 01 Dec 2008 TechdirtLast week, the Toronto Police Homicide Squad launched a new website containing profiles of unsolved murder cases and wanted person read more »
Belgian Politician Caught Drunk In NYC Bar; Blames Bloggers
Date : 01 Dec 2008 TechdirtTechCrunch has a story from last week about a top Belgian politician who apparently got drunk in a New York City bar on a diplomat read more »
What's Wrong With Actually Turning Electronics Off?
Date : 01 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe WSJ is running an article about some guys in Spain who claim to have patented an algorithm that can detect if an electronic de read more »
JPMorgan to cut 9,200 Washington Mutual jobs (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Monday it will eliminate about 9,200 jobs at the former Washington Mutual Inc , which on Se read more »
Court Says Yahoo And Google Aren't Liable For Gambling Ads
Date : 01 Dec 2008 TechdirtIt's been really weird to see various politicians in the US go after online gambling in a variety of questionable ways, from Kentu read more »
Bernanke says Fed has options as rates near zero (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday urged decisive action to protect the economy and said the central bank h read more »
U.S. working on new lending programs: Paulson (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday the government was working on new programs to stimulate lending and expr read more »
Dow loses 679.95 as economy, Bernanke revive fear (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks tumbled on Monday as signs of a deepening economic slump around the world erased much of last week's sharp gains, read more »
Global markets hammered as recession reality sinks in (AFP)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - A fresh wave of selling hit global stock markets Monday as weak economic news from around the world and confirmation of a US read more »
Investors sue Countrywide to force loans purchase (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A group of bond investors sued Bank of America -owned Countrywide Financial on Monday demanding that Countrywide buy eve read more »
Microsoft Discovers Cyberchondria
Date : 01 Dec 2008 TechdirtSome researchers at Microsoft have been studying cyberchondria, the phenomenon of people searching the web for medical info, then read more »
Recession started in December 2007: panel (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The U.S. economy slipped into recession in December 2007, the nation's business cycle arbiter declared on Monday, and th read more »
General Growth Properties gets loan reprieve (AP)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - General Growth Properties Inc. has received a two-week extension on mortgage loans totaling $900 million, as the troubled sho read more »
Car sales slide shows auto crisis worsening (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The global automotive industry faced a fresh wave of bad news Monday, as data showed drops in Swedish, Japanese and Sout read more »
Stock index futures point lower (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stock futures pointed to a drop on Monday after grim manufacturing figures from China, and as investors braced for econo read more »
Global recession rocks Asian and European industry (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - European and Chinese industry activity slumped in November, Japanese officials said their economy was slowing rapidly an read more »
Ryanair makes new bid for Aer Lingus (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Ryanair , Europe's largest low-cost airline, on Monday offered to buy Irish rival Aer Lingus for 750 million euros ($97 read more »
RBS to give struggling homeowners more time to pay (AP)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC said Monday it would give homeowners who miss mortgage payments at least six months before s read more »
German retail sales fall by 1.6 percent in October: statistics (AFP)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - German retail sales plunged by 1.6 percent in October from the previous month, preliminary data showed on Monday, catching e read more »
Credit card industry may cut $2 trillion of lines: analyst (Reuters)
Date : 01 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The U.S. credit card industry may pull back well over $2 trillion of lines over the next 18 months due to risk aversion read more »