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Oil down more than $1 on financial turmoil (Reuters)
Date : 02 Oct 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Oil fell more than a dollar to below $93 a barrel on Friday, its third consecutive day of losses, on skepticism that a U read more »
Fed's Bullard: Don't cut rates back to 1 percent (Reuters)
Date : 02 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The Federal Reserve should not cut interest rates again, even though the economy may face recession, a top Fed policy-ma read more »
Crisis spreads; bailout focus on House (Reuters)
Date : 02 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Shockwaves from the global credit crisis spread on Thursday, rattling industries around the world and raising the stakes read more »
Microsoft Expands Program To Bribe Users Into Using Its Search
Date : 02 Oct 2008
TechdirtA few years ago, Bill Gates had indicated that if all else failed in winning over users from Google, Microsoft was prepared to res read more »
Using Google Suggest To See If A Company Is A Scam
Date : 02 Oct 2008 TechdirtJeremy Wagstaff has a neat little trick to determine if a company contacting him is likely to be a "scam" of some sort. He just t read more »
Financial crisis moves from Wall St. to the mall (AP)
Date : 02 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - Alarmed by the financial meltdown, stores nationwide are slapping sale signs on everything from fall sweaters to furniture read more »
Thain to head investment banking, wealth at BofA (Reuters)
Date : 02 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - John Thain, the Merrill Lynch & Co Inc chief executive who engineered the firm's sale to Bank of America Corp, will head read more »
Plagiarizing Speechwriter Pushed For Stronger Copyright Laws
Date : 02 Oct 2008 TechdirtWhy is it so often that we find those who strongly push for certain types of draconian laws are later found to be guilty of violat read more »
Economic, credit fears punish Wall Street (Reuters)
Date : 02 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks slid on Thursday as tight credit markets and bleak economic data forced investors to focus on the rocky road stil read more »
So How Will The Financial Crisis Impact The Wider Economy?
Date : 02 Oct 2008 TechdirtEarlier this week, we received a tremendous response to our post about the financial crisis and how it might impact the tech indus read more »
Yes, China Is Spying On Skype Conversations
Date : 02 Oct 2008 TechdirtRemember how Skype was supposed to be "untappable" due to end-to-end encryption? Well, we've already seen that's not true, thanks read more »
Monsanto drops after broker downgrade (Reuters)
Date : 02 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Shares of Monsanto Co fell more than 6 percent to $91.40 before the bell on Thursday after Merrill Lynch slashed its re read more »
IBM Applies For A Patent On Finding Areas That Lack Patents
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtSlashdot points us to the news that IBM has applied for a patent on a process for identifying markets where there isn't much paten read more »
Apple Finally Realizes That NDAs For Developers Are A Bad Idea
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtIt was definitely surprising to see Apple trying to enforce an NDA to stop iPhone developers from talking about their applications read more »
Focus On Attention First, And The Money Will Follow
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtKevin Kelly's latest post tackles a pretty common subject around here, about how the most important thing in a business model is g read more »
House Lets Orphan Works Legislation Die; Tons Of Content Remains Locked Up
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtWe've discussed in the past the importance of orphan works legislation, which would make it possible for people to use content on read more »
Activision CEO Suggests Record Labels Should Be Paying To Get In Video Games
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtRemember a couple months ago, when Warner Music's Edgar Bronfman complained that the makers of video games like Guitar Hero and Ro read more »
Germany Says P2P Company Must Proactively Monitor Content For Infringement
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtAnother day, another awful legal ruling about file sharing. This time, coming out of Germany. A German court has told file hosti read more »
Why Won't The MPAA's Lawyers Identify Themselves?
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtOne interesting tidbit to come out of the MPAA and RealNetworks suing each other over Real's DVD backup software: the lawyers for read more »
Is The Original Spyware Company Finally Dead?
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtFor nearly a decade, we've followed the changing business of what was originally called Gator. When it first launched, back in 19 read more »
Ford U.S. sales fall 34.6 percent (Reuters)
Date : 01 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday its U.S. sales fell an unadjusted 34.6 percent in September to its weakest levels of the read more »
Oil falls on US inventory build, eyes bailout plan (Reuters)
Date : 01 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Oil fell on Wednesday as U.S. government data showed supplies rising and global markets awaited a U.S. Senate vote on th read more »
Stocks pare losses as financials advance (Reuters)
Date : 01 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stocks pared losses on Wednesday as financial shares advanced on hopes the Senate would pass a revamped rescue plan that read more »
Cox Lies To Customers; Says DMCA Requires Disconnects For File Sharing
Date : 01 Oct 2008 TechdirtWhile there's been a big push among the entertainment industry to get ISPs to adopt a "three strikes" policy that would have ISPs read more »
Senate urged to back revised bank rescue (Reuters)
Date : 01 Oct 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The Senate geared up to vote on a revised $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector on Wednesday as nervousness read more »