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Oil rises $2 on Israel and weak dollar (Reuters)
Date : 29 Dec 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Oil prices rose more than $2 on Monday amid concern that Israeli attacks on Hamas could disrupt Middle East crude oil su read more »
Maryland Suing Diebold/Premier For Money It Spent To Fix Its Voting Machines
Date : 29 Dec 2008
TechdirtThings just keep getting worse for Diebold's e-voting subsidiary, that was laughably renamed Premier Election Solutions to avoid a read more »
Fox About To Get Paid For A Movie It Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With
Date : 29 Dec 2008 TechdirtBack in August, we noted just how silly it was that 20th Century Fox was suing Warner Bros. Studios over the movie The Watchmen. read more »
Barclays says Dow-Rohm and Haas deal may not be hurt (Reuters)
Date : 29 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Dow Chemical's plan to buy rival Rohm and Haas may not be affected by Kuwait's decision to scrap a deal to form a $17. read more »
Warner Music Musicians Pissed Off About YouTube Dispute
Date : 29 Dec 2008 TechdirtWarner Music's dispute with YouTube, where Warner Music suddenly claims that YouTube needs to pay more has been pretty silly from read more »
UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham Wants Websites To Be Rated... To Protect The Children
Date : 29 Dec 2008 TechdirtThe UK sure does have one impressively clueless culture secretary in Andy Burnham. We first came across him nearly a year ago, wh read more »
How one family's mortgage is linked to meltdown (Reuters)
Date : 29 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Cynthia Goldrick's daughter is in and out of the hospital for brain surgery, her mother has Stage 4 lung cancer and her read more »
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over Patent For Thumbnail Icons
Date : 29 Dec 2008 TechdirtAs a bit of a non-Christmas gift, it appears that a patent holder, using the infamous Niro Scavone law firm (to whom the name "Pat read more »
JC Flowers and others close to IndyMac deal: source (Reuters)
Date : 29 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - A consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms, including J.C. Flowers & Co, is close to a deal to buy the assets o read more »
Trademarks And Netbooks
Date : 29 Dec 2008 TechdirtI've been considering buying myself a "netbook" recently -- the mini-notebook computers that have become quite popular in the last read more »
HK stock index advances 1 percent (AP)
Date : 29 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Hong Kong's key stock index rose 1 percent in feather-light trade Monday to snap a four-day losing streak. read more »
Australian Net Censorship Plan Delayed Temporarily
Date : 29 Dec 2008 TechdirtThere's been plenty of protests against Australia's latest plan to censor the internet, but it appears that the reason the filteri read more »
China stocks fall on supply, earnings fears (AP)
Date : 29 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Chinese shares drifted lower Monday, with little fresh news to distract investors from worries over a flood of newly tradable read more »
Adams appears headed for form of bankruptcy (AP)
Date : 28 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - British children's clothing retailer Adams has taken a step toward filing for bankruptcy protection. read more »
Credit Suisse clients may have lost $925.9 mln on Madoff: paper (Reuters)
Date : 28 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Credit Suisse clients may have lost up to 1 billion Swiss francs ($925.9 million) on investments connected to accused s read more »
US retail sales data deepens year-end gloom (AFP)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAFP - Christmas retail sales have plunged in the United States, according to a poll, as Japan reported record cuts in production a read more »
Retailers' holiday sales plummet 4 percent (Reuters)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Retailers' sales fell as much as 4 percent during the holiday season, as the weak economy and bad weather created one of read more »
Wall Street edges up on GMAC (Reuters)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks inched higher in thin volume on Friday as energy shares rose alongside oil and General Motors climbed after its f read more »
Stores cut prices to entice post-holiday shoppers (AP)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Two hours before the doors were set to open Friday morning, a Miami-area Wal-Mart parking lot was full of cars and possibi read more »
Wall St edges up on GMAC (Reuters)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - U.S. stocks inched higher in thin volume on Friday as energy shares rose alongside oil and General Motors climbed after read more »
Retail stocks suffer but some defy dismal sales data (Reuters)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Retail shares traded lower on Friday following data showing the first decline in holiday sales in at least 40 years, tho read more »
GMAC may have asked for $6 billion in aid: CreditSights (Reuters)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - GMAC LLC may have applied for up to $6 billion in funds from the government's financial bailout program, and could poten read more »
Retailers' holiday sales plummet (Reuters)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Retailers' sales fell as much as 4 percent during the holiday season, as the weak economy and bad weather created one of read more »
China shares edge lower amid gloomy profit outlook (AP)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Chinese stocks edged lower Friday as early gains succumbed to gloom over earnings prospects for many listed firms. read more »
Oil rises 2 percent to above $36 after UAE cuts supplies (Reuters)
Date : 26 Dec 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Oil rose above $36 on Friday, after the UAE joined Saudi Arabia in deepening supply curbs to comply with OPEC's biggest- read more »