New York Times:
Microsoft has held talks with the News Corporation about a tie up, which would involve News Corp. getting paid to take its news Web sites off Google, according to press reports. (Read More)
Ars Technica:
How important is it for readers of game reviews to understand the conditions under which a review was written? Would it change things if you knew all the early reviews of a game were written based on play time given in one location, under a managed schedule? What if the publisher paid for airfare and hotel (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Stocks & economy:
Investors are heading toward the final month of the year with more questions about the economy than they had just a few weeks ago.
Arts - Organizations - Organ - Music - Keyboard. (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Nightly News:
Nov. 22: The film blew past decidedly mixed reviews to rake in more than $140 million over the weekend, making it the third-largest film debut ever. NBC’s Lester Holt reports. (Nightly News). (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs ... stock-market investors are retreating, worrying that the end of the year could bring challenging trading conditions ... and Chrysler will offer 0% financing or as much as $4,000 cash back on 2010 vehicles (Read More)
www.marketwatch.com:
After last year's trampling death at Wal-Mart, how can you stay safe while doing your holiday shopping? How can you protect yourself if there's a mob scene? Adrienne Mitchell talks with a store safety expert. Ann Cates also has the latest on homes sales. John Wordock hosts.
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The Guardian:
Data from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows almost one in eleven US homeowners face repossession Almost one in eleven Americans is at imminent risk of losing their home, as the housing crash continues to claim thousands of victims, more than three years after prices began to fall.Data from the Mortgage Bankers Associat (Read More)
The Guardian:
• CVA needs 75% of creditors to back the rescue deal• Shares in the retail group have lost 90% of their value High street landlords to Blacks are tomorrow expected to grudgingly vote through a deal that will allow the troubled outdoor goods retailer to wriggle out of lease commitments on 101 stores it wants to close.The de (Read More)
The Guardian:
• The chain hopes to sell about 36 of its 45 bookshops• Lack of credit insurance led to difficulties in buying stock The sale of Borders UK, the troubled book retailer, appeared to be foundering today, raising fears for the future of the hard-pressed business.The company, with 45 stores in Britain, has been hoping to sell a (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• World champion sprinters celebrate second IAAF honours • Bolt looks forward to Diamond League v Gay and PowellThe Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and United States 400 metres runner Sanya Richards have won their second IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards.Bolt retained the honour for winning the 100m and 200m finals in worl (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
British prosecutors failed to disclose crucial evidence to the courts in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in a case that resulted in an innocent pilot being jailed for five months, previously unseen documents reveal.Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian living in the UK, was the first person in the world to be arrest (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Special report: Address book was cited in court as reason 9/11 suspect should remain in custodyLotfi Raissi was on a running machine at his local gym in the suburbs west of London when he looked up to see footage of American Airlines Flight 11 crash into the World Trade Centre's North Tower.Raissi, a 27-year-old Algerian pi (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Art historian John Richardson's revelations on the troubled artist he knew as a young manFrancis Bacon's was a life lived to extravagant extremes. His drunken excesses in the Colony Room Club in Soho; his carnivalesque, ruinous generosity; the formative occasion on which, as a teenager, his father found him wearing his mot (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The territories of Francis Bacon's soul have been explored widely; they have been the subject of a film, books and endless speculation. But the senior art historian John Richardson – who, at 85, is working on the last volume of his acclaimed biography of Picasso, and who knew Bacon from his 20s – has now laid down his views (Read More)