VentureBeat:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.[Costolo talks about why they changed the question from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"]Costolo: In user research, people would sign up for Twitter and they’d see this big white box that said “What are you do (Read More)
USATODAY.com Money - Top Stories:
Stocks are set to continue their slide when the market opens Friday as the dollar strengthens further, and after a week of mixed ...
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Reuters:
HONG KONG (Reuters) - 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.
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Reuters:
China's government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Adobe just announced announcing a bunch of upgrades to Acrobat.com, its suite of web collaboration applications. The most important: It’s releasing an application for the iPhone and BlackBerry.Mobile support has been a big missing piece for Acrobat.com, since a big selling point of applications like Adobe’s (as well as Goog (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific:
SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
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Reuters:
PARIS (Reuters) - Asia is leading the global economy out of the deepest downturn in decades but the recovery will be marred by high unemployment and huge government debt across the industrialised countries, the OECD said on Thursday.
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Reuters:
HONG KONG (Reuters) - 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.
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National Review Online:
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama -- loves to stiff him, play him along, and (Read More)
Google News - Business:
PBOC: China Spurring Demand; Eye On Investment, HousingWall Street JournalBEIJING (Dow Jones)--People's Bank of China Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan said Friday that China is making progress on stimulating domestic demand, but also signaled the central bank is paying attention to the surge in investment and housing demand ...China Pas (Read More)
Google News - Business:
New York Daily NewsECONOMIC WOES TAKING A TOLL House Republicans call on Geithner to resignWashington PostGrowing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama ...Geithner, under fire, defend (Read More)
Google News - Business:
New York TimesHouse Attacks Fed, TreasuryWall Street JournalWASHINGTON -- Political frustration over the rescue of Wall Street and high unemployment erupted in the House Thursday, with one committee threatening to impose tighter scrutiny on the Federal Reserve and another ...House panel OKs plan to open Fed policy to audits (Read More)