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World stocks hit 2-week highs (Reuters)
Date : 27 Nov 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Global stocks hit two-week highs on Thursday with European equities playing catch up to strong gains overseas, but more read more »
London stock market edges up (AFP)
Date : 27 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - The London stock market rose 0.09 percent to 4,156.52 points when trading began on Thursday. read more »
BHP gloomy on short term, defends Rio decision (Reuters)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Global miner BHP Billiton painted a gloomy near-term outlook for metals demand on Thursday as it defended its decision t read more »
Free Is Not Socialism
Date : 26 Nov 2008
TechdirtI've had a browser open with a two part series from the site "e-consultancy" for the better part of a month, debating whether or n read more »
Google Is No Longer Silicon Valley's Legal Defender
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtWhen Google settled the lawsuit over its book scanning project, we noted with disappointment how this appeared to signal the end o read more »
Turns Out There's Lottttttttssss Of Money To Be Made In T-Shirts
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've pointed out in the past that folks who don't want to understand the economics of scarce and infinite goods often falsely cla read more »
Now Blockbuster Wants To Sell You A Proprietary Box So It Can Sell You Streamed Movies
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtStop us if you've heard this before: a company wants to sell people a box so they can pay to download movies. Sound familiar? That read more »
Chinese Developer Gets Three Years In Jail For Making IM Software Better
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtAlmost exactly a year ago, we wrote about the case of a developer in China who had created an add-on for the super popular QQ inst read more »
Mortgage rates fall for 2nd day; won't help all (AP)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Mortgage rates fell for the second day in a row Wednesday, and could be heading toward levels home buyers and owners haven't read more »
Mortgage rates dip for fourth straight week (AP)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Rates on 30-year mortgages sank for a fourth straight week, falling below 6 percent for the first time since early October, a read more »
No, Second Life's Bank Crash Did Not Predict Real World Bank Crash
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtMSNBC is running an article claiming that last year's virtual bank collapse in Second Life somehow foretold the current financial read more »
Lori Drew Not Guilty Of Felonies, But Guilty Of Misdemeanors
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtIn the landmark cyberbullying case, Lori Drew was found not guilty of three felonies, but guilty of three misdemeanors. The jury read more »
Danish High Court Says ISPs Must Be Internet Policemen; Have To Block The Pirate Bay
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtEarlier this year, we noted, with surprise, that a Danish court had ordered Tele2, a large ISP, to block all access to The Pirate read more »
EFF Blasts Apple For Fraudulent DMCA Takedown Of Wiki Page
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtIt's no secret that Apple is excessively protective of the way some of its systems work. That includes trying to stop any other a read more »
The Long Tail Is Only As Good As The Recommendation System
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtIt's been amusing to watch folks like Andrew Orlowski continue to misinterpret Chris Anderson's slight admission that things in "t read more »
Once More, With Feeling: Copyright Is Not A Welfare System For Musicians
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtThe purpose of copyright is clear: it's to provide an incentive for the creation of new content. As such, it makes absolutely no read more »
De Beers About To Learn That The Streisand Effect Is Forever
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtIt would appear that the lawyers at diamond conglomerate De Beers are unaware of the Streisand Effect. As you might have heard, a read more »
You Don't Have To Sell Software
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtReader Philip writes in to ask about our thoughts on a commentary on News.com by Dave Rosenberg concerning Sun's open source stra read more »
Tiffany 3Q profit beats view, but outlook weak (AP)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Tiffany & Co. on Wednesday reported third-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street expectations, but the luxury goods retaile read more »
Stock futures fall on gloomy outlooks (Reuters)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stock index futures fell on Wednesday as disappointing outlooks from companies including luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co an read more »
Deere fourth-quarter net profit falls (Reuters)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Deere & Co , the world's biggest farm equipment maker, posted a lower quarterly net profit on Wednesday, as lower commer read more »
No One Ever Said You Should Rely On Wikipedia For Drug Info
Date : 26 Nov 2008 TechdirtThere are a bunch of headlines today about a new study that notes that you shouldn't rely on Wikipedia for drug info that I'm sure read more »
Tiffany posts lower profit (Reuters)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Tiffany & Co posted a lower quarterly profit on Wednesday, hurt by weak domestic sales, and the upscale jeweler slashed read more »
Abu Dhabi firms set up new UAE mortgage lender (AP)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Five state-run and publicly traded companies in Abu Dhabi are launching a new mortgage provider as the credit crunch threaten read more »
China slashes rates, EU launches stimulus plan (Reuters)
Date : 26 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Massive stimulus plans to drive the world out of recession took center stage on Wednesday with the European Union consid read more »