New York Times:
Ben S. Bernanke’s nomination to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next month.
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BBC:
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill.In brief, this sets out to take Lord Carter's Digital Britain report and turn some of it into law. Amongst t (Read More)
New York Times:
Asian shares fell on Friday and the dollar firmed as investors took profits on riskier assets after U.S. data raised fears that a global economic recovery could lose momentum. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Bloomberg is letting BusinessWeek writers go today. So far, the names we've seen via Twitter are pretty big.Steve Baker, a technology writer, and veteran of 23 years. We've heard he wanted to leave anyway.Jon Fine, the great media writer -- on sabbatical with his wife, Laurel Touby -- is out. Makes sense, he's a hot shot of (Read More)
New York Times:
A new technology along the lines of green roofs, called edible walls, grows vegetables, fruits and herbs on the outside walls of urban buildings.
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washingtonpost.com -:
INDIANAPOLIS -- Health insurer Aetna said Wednesday it will cut 625 jobs immediately, or nearly 2 percent of its staff, and will make a similar number of cuts by the end of the 2010 first quarter due to the lagging economy and the potential impact of health care reform. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
Mashable!:
The key to our health may be the technology that supports it. So believes George Halvorson – Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente’s Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Join Mr. Halvorson live for an inspired talk and discussion regarding one of the biggest issues facing the United States at (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
Steven Pearlstein has done a great public service by calling attention to the undemocratic ways of the U.S. Senate ["Want real reform? Let's start with Congress," Economy & Business, Nov. 11]. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings yesterday for the third quarter, launching a new version of their fastest growing produ (Read More)