I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to listen to. Did AT&T fail? No. Actually, [...]
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Dutch pension fund sues Bank of America for $100m Dutch Pension fund ABP, which manages $285bn, has filed a lawsuit in New York against Bank of America, accusing the financial group of hiding billions of dollars of Merrill Lynch losses, which if disclosed might have [...]
Greece avoided a downgrade to its credit rating by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, which had warned last month that it was considering such a move, although the ratings firm slapped on a negative outlook. The euro also rose in the minutes following S&P’s announcement. S&P credit analyst Marko Mrsnik said the Greek government’s [...]
U.S. stock futures pointed to a higher open Tuesday, as investors await an interest-rate decision and comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve. More than two hours before the start of trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 22 points higher at 10660. The S&P 500 futures advanced 2.9 points to 1148.6 and Nasdaq 100 futures [...]
A scathing report by a U.S. bankruptcy-court examiner investigating the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. blames senior executives and auditor Ernst & Young for serious lapses that led to the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In the works for more than a year, [...]
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Our full review of the Motorola Backflip should be up in a few days, but a few words of wisdom in the mean time: Don’t buy it. Between its crazy form-factor and the hidden trackpad tucked on the back of the display, everything we took as merits at face value have devolved [...]
Lord Ashcroft is one of the Conservatives’ main donors The House of Lords appointments commission has rebuffed calls for an investigation into Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft over his tax status.Lord Mandelson asked for a probe after the deputy Tory chairman admitted he was [...]
SINGAPORE — Asian stocks were up Monday amid a general easing in concerns over fiscally-strapped Greece, while resources stocks were lifted by a surge in copper prices after the massive earthquake in Chile. “Markets remain in two minds at the moment. Greece is never far from the headlines, but recent reports of the EU putting [...]
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