Submitted by anthonymfreed
from blog:
By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert
Shipping scams are a common tactic criminals use in which they employ mules to receive goods bought with stolen credit card numbers, who then ship to people who buy them in online (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Van Gogh's letters provide an extraordinary map of the artist's interior worldMichelangelo wrote some wonderful sonnets; Constable's correspondence has a fascinating tough-tenderness; most visualisers have, with varying degre (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The pharmaceutical industry has taken almost two years to disseminate important informationOnce your medicines regulator decides it should change the side-effect warnings contained in the patient information of a drug taken b (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
In the fourth of a series of Q&As with the shortlisted authors, Reif Larsen discusses his novelWhat moved you to write an illustrated account of a child prodigy's adventuresome life?This book, like most creations, grew in fit (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Twitter said it’s planning a large-scale advertising network soon, but U.K.-based Tweetmeme beat them to the punch with a monetization effort of its own today.The startup, which creates those green ‘Retweet’ buttons you see e (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
New injunctions against gangs and action on wheelclampers included in Alan Johnson's crime billNew antisocial behaviour injunctions – dubbed gangbos – aimed at tackling teenage gang members as young as 14 are to be introduced (Read More)
The Guardian:
Commodities soared and emerging markets took off, but the average small investor missed out, says Patrick CollinsonIt invests in goldmines – and it became a goldmine. Every £1,000 invested in BlackRock Gold & General at the b (Read More)
Submitted by stuartginbey
from blog:
Expiration Friday ended with a dull wimper. As mentioned yesterday, the volatility normally associated with expiration Friday, has moved towards Wednesday or Thursday of expiration week. Although closing slightly lower on t (Read More)
Techdirt:
Early on, we predicted that Apple's walled garden approach to apps for the iPhone would lead to developer backlash. Even if it was successful at first, the obvious trajectory was that it wouldn't just lead to problems that d (Read More)
FT Alphaville:
Betting on life expectancy, as investors in so-called life settlements do, is fraught with risk - not least that people will live longer than models suggest they will. Investors in two Deutsche Bank funds -- db Kompass Life (Read More)
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias:
Friday’s front-page “news analysis” by New York Times health care reporter Kevin Sack, “Culture Clash in Medicine,” dealt with two recent recommendations from quasi-government panels on limiting testing for breast cancer and (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The number of defamation cases that reached the high court surged by 11% in 2008 to a four-year high, as foreign claimants took advantage of the UK's tougher laws to seek "libel tourism" awards from publishers.A total of 259 (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in the last half hour of trading after a day in the red as investors sought safety by selling stocks in favor of the dollar and Treasurys. (Read More)
New York Financial Press:
11/20/09 The US dollar and Japanese yen continue to strengthen this session as the trading week comes to a close. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. stock futures pointed to a somewhat weaker start, hurt by Dell's worse-than-forecast profit drop and as traders move toward safer securities. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
China's banking regulator has ordered a midsize Chinese commercial bank to curb its lending for the final two months of this year. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
High-octane drama of polar bears tumbling to a bloody death may leave viewers feeling manipulated by propagandaThe high-pitched whine of a low-flying jet engine fills the air as the camera tracks across images of shimmering g (Read More)
New York Financial Press:
11/19/09 Weak US jobless claims figures and poor performing equity markets has kept investoras away from higher-yielding currencies this session. (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - U.S. Economy:
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices hit a record high and oil and stock prices around the world rose on Wednesday, while the dollar eased off ahead of U.S. inflation data and minutes from the Bank of England's November meeting.
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Submitted by matthewSBOC
from Google Reader:
The inspiration for this article emanates from emails and phone calls I have received from a few local businesses. They want to know how they can remove sponsored listing ads from their Google business listings (Google Place (Read More)