(Credit: Facebook Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Who could not be moved by the fact that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finished his bountiful week by getting married? [...]
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(CNN) — Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, died Sunday, the [...]
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After all the hype and anticipation, Facebook’s initial public offering turned out to be a disappointment that may bode poorly for investors in the company’s ri [...]
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LOS ANGELES — Kevin Durant is the most valuable player in these playoffs. Ordinarily it would be foolish to make sweeping generalizations based on one day in one bui [...]
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(CNN) — She likes Target, the Food Network and sun-dried tomatoes. She loves taking pictures of her dog Beast, and admits to checking her phone “ [...]
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After all the hype and anticipation, Facebook’s initial public offering turned out to be a disappointment that may bode poorly for investors in the company’s ri [...]
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After all the hype and anticipation, Facebook’s initial public offering turned out to be a disappointment that may bode poorly for investors in the company’s richly priced shares. Facebook (ticker: FB) sold 421 million shares Thursday at $38 after bumping up the price range from the original $28 to $35 per share. The stock began [...]
READ MORE »By Claire Rosemberg (AFP) – 3 hours ago BRUSSELS — As investors and European leaders big and small tot up the potential cost of Greece departing the euro, the European Union too stands perilously close to meltdown after six decades in the making. Weeks ago still an elephant in the room, Athens’ looming exit from [...]
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By SHARON TERLEP and SUZANNE VRANICA General Motors has decided it won’t advertise in the next Super Bowl, a surprising reversal of strategy that comes as the auto maker overhauls its global marketing operations. Sharon Terlep has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters. General Motors Co. said it will forgo advertising in the next [...]
READ MORE »(AFP) – 1 hour ago FRANKFURT — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said cash-strapped Greece needed to implement EU and IMF-imposed austerity measures as European solidarity was “not a one-way street.” “To tell the Greeks that they need not apply austerity deals to which they have agreed is to lie to them,” Schaeuble told the [...]
READ MORE »For battle weary euro politicians, four long, tough weeks lie ahead between now and the next round of Greek elections, which could see recession-hit voters restating their determination to reject the savage austerity measures that are the price of Greece’s latest €130bn (£105bn) bailout. But over the past two years, events have repeatedly been taken [...]
READ MORE »For battle weary euro politicians, four long, tough weeks lie ahead between now and the next round of Greek elections, which could see recession-hit voters restating their determination to reject the savage austerity measures that are the price of Greece’s latest €130bn (£105bn) bailout. But over the past two years, events have repeatedly been taken [...]
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Enlarge image Greek Euro Exit Possibility Moves to Center of Debt Crisis Oli Scarff/Getty Images A woman walks past the University of Athens in Athens. A woman walks past the University of Athens in Athens. Photographer: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Leaders from the Group of Eight nations pushed for Greece to stay in the European single [...]
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As soon as General Motors said this week that it would quit paid ads on Facebook, Ford was on Twitter saying it has doubled-down on social and digital media — and hinted in a tweet that GM just didn’t know how to use new social media. Earlier in Drive On: After dissing [...]
READ MORE »ATHENS (Dow Jones)–Greece’s conservative New Democracy party and the radical leftist Syriza party are even in polls published Saturday, with two polls showing New Democracy would garner the most support in a fresh vote mid-June and Syriza taking the lead in two others. According to a survey by the MRB polling agency published in Real [...]
READ MORE »By Michael Winfrey LONDON | Sat May 19, 2012 10:09am EDT LONDON (Reuters) – The message the euro zone is sending Greece ahead of its June election is there is a chance it could be forced out of the single currency union and that it could happen quickly if necessary, the finance minister of euro [...]
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