Facebook's Latest Great Leap Forward Part Of A Proud Corporate Tradition

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota It seems like Facebook makes changes every few months and doesn't respond to consumer complaints.By now, many of us have seen Facebook's latest round of changes. My morning commute was compromised on Wednesday because I couldn't access my usual traffic reports on my Facebook page.After some research, I found some ways to get rid of a few features that were making me crazy like the real-time ticker. Yesterday, my colleague Dana Farrington shared her thoughts about Facebook's changes and some of these helpful hints.The changes (and my frustration) prompted...

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Data Show Housing Market Starting To Brighten

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The New 'Top' Story: Facebook's Flow Of Change

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Enlarge Paul Sakuma/AP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows Timeline during the f/8 conference in San Francisco, on Thursday. The changes to Facebook continue, but some people are unhappy with the recent tweaks. Paul Sakuma/AP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows Timeline during the f/8 conference in San Francisco, on Thursday. The changes to Facebook continue, but some people are unhappy with the recent tweaks.I logged on to Facebook this week to check...

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High Costs Make It Harder To Grow Young Farmers

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A Greek Default Would Spread Debt Contagion

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Solyndra Executives Refuse To Testify At Hearing

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Solyndra Chief Executive Officer Brian Harrison (left) and Chief Financial Officer Bill Stover are sworn in at the beginning of a Friday hearing of before a House Energy and Commerce Committee panel.Top executives from a bankrupt California solar energy company have declined to testify before a congressional hearing investigating their half-billion dollar government loan.Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and the company's chief...

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HP Hires Former eBay Head Meg Whitman As CEO

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Regulators Consider Safety Brakes For Table Saws

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Enlarge Courtesy of SawStop SawStop, a table saw safety tool, senses an electrical current in skin and triggers a brake when a finger comes into contact with the blade. Courtesy of SawStop SawStop, a table saw safety tool, senses an electrical current in skin and triggers a brake when a finger comes into contact with the blade.Federal regulators are moving closer to implementing new safety standards for table saws. Every year, several thousand Americans...

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Manhattan Subway Riders: Can You Hear Me Now?

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World Markets Sink As G-20 Fails To Ease Tensions

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Europe's Debt Crisis Casts Cloud Over U.S. Economy

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Obama's Jobs Bill Pitch: A Bridge To Nowhere?

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP President Obama on Thursday visited the Brent Spence Bridge, which has been called "functionally obsolete." The president pressed Congress to pass his jobs act, arguing that if the country doesn't invest in restoring the bridge and other infrastructure now, it will pay for it later.President Obama continued his tour in support of his jobs bill Thursday. The latest stop: Cincinnati, at the base of the double-decker Brent...

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What's Driving The Market Plunge?

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Former eBay Chief Whitman Picked To Head HP

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EasyJet to Run TV Ads to Lure Business Fliers

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 11:35 AM EDT By Steve Rothwell Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- EasyJet Plc will next month begin its first major television advertising campaign to lure passengers from carriers such as British Airways and Air France- KLM Group and boost its share of the business travel market.“We’re very keen to get the message out that EasyJet is flying more and more business people into Europe,” Peter Duffy, EasyJet’s marketing chief, said in a telephone interview today.EasyJet will air a series of three 20-second clips, featuring music from Liverpool...

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Another Tycoon Defies the Kremlin

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota By Henry Meyer On Sept. 15, Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia’s third-richest man (and owner of the New Jersey Nets), said he was stepping down as chairman of the pro-business Pravoye Delo party because the government had hijacked it. Prokhorov took the post in June with the government’s blessing, and promised to spend almost $90 million to get the party’s candidates elected to Parliament in December. Yet in recent weeks he had repeatedly criticized the country’s leadership, saying that Russia was becoming a “farce and parody of the Soviet Union.”The...

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Moody's Cuts Credit Agricole and Societe Generale

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Zynga IPO Outlook July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Yoshikami, chief investment strategist atJuly 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Yoshikami, chief investment strategist at YCMNet Advisors, Bob Rice, general managing partner at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, Paul Martino, managing director at Bullpen Capital, and Paul Bard, director of research at Renaissance Capital LLC, talk about Zynga Inc.'s plan to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering and the outlook for the company. (Excerpts. Source: Bloomberg)View the original article herePeliculas Onl...

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Italy Credit Rating Cut by S&P

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Zynga IPO Outlook July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Yoshikami, chief investment strategist atJuly 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Yoshikami, chief investment strategist at YCMNet Advisors, Bob Rice, general managing partner at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, Paul Martino, managing director at Bullpen Capital, and Paul Bard, director of research at Renaissance Capital LLC, talk about Zynga Inc.'s plan to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering and the outlook for the company. (Excerpts. Source: Bloomberg)View the original article herePeliculas Onl...

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BNP Paribas, SocGen Jump on Speculation France May Bolster Banks

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 1:48 PM EDT By Fabio Benedetti-Valentini Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- BNP Paribas SA and Societe Generale SA, France’s biggest banks by market value, rose in Paris trading on speculation the French government will take steps to bolster their capital.BNP Paribas jumped 2.26 euros, or 9.8 percent, to 25.32 euros in Paris trading. Societe Generale gained 8.8 percent to 16.65 euros and Credit Agricole SA, the country’s third-largest lender, gained 4.8 percent to 4.43 euros. All three banks slumped more than 50 percent in the past three...

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G-20 Pledges to Tackle ‘Renewed’ Challenges, Presses Europe

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 2:49 PM EDT By Simon Kennedy and Scott Rose (Updates with markets in third and sixth paragraphs. See {EXT4 } for more on the European debt crisis.)Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Group of 20 finance chiefs pledged to address rising risks to the global economy and pushed Europe to contain its sovereign debt crisis after concern the world is on the brink of another recession sent stocks tumbling.Policy makers are “committed to a strong and coordinated international response to address the renewed challenges facing the global economy,” G-20...

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Europe Weighs Speedier ESM Enactment to Stem Crisis, Draft Shows

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 1:53 PM EDT By James G. Neuger (See EXT4 for more on the European debt crisis.)Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- European governments are exploring speeding the setup of a permanent rescue fund as the urgency mounts to halt the debt crisis, an internal working paper shows.Drawing on paid-in capital, the fund will wield a 500 billion-euro ($677 billion) war chest that could help shield countries like Italy. It also includes provisions for sharing costs with bondholders for countries with “unsustainable” debt.Senior finance officials next...

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Europe’s Debt Crisis Has Become a German Identity Crisis

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Photo Illustration by Bloomberg By Brendan Greeley (Corrects third paragraph to clarify Europe’s treaty requirements for state bailouts and Schäffler’s voting record among Free Democrats.)“Germans, we don’t look to see what’s in our own national interest,” says Frank Schäffler. “We’re drunk with Europe.” Schäffler, a member of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of Parliament, is speaking on the phone from his home district of Bünde. In two sentences...

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Charlie Rose Talks to Tony Blair

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota By Charlie Rose “The Palestinians are perfectly entitled to come and say, ‘We want to be recognized as a state’” Stefan Wermuth/Reuters Can you concoct a formula that’s attractive to the Palestinians, to say we’ll negotiate hard for this and it’ll have to happen quickly—and if it fails, then we’ll support statehood?A lot of countries feel tremendous sympathy for the Palestinians. But they would like to see a revived negotiation given the chance. I...

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The Russian Twins Behind Hit iPhone App Cut the Rope

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota By Julia Ioffe Cut the Rope creators Semyon (left) and Efim Voinov in Moscow Anna Skladmann for Bloomberg Businessweek When they were 10, fraternal twins Efim and Semyon Voinov received a British-made ZX Spectrum personal computer from their parents. It was 1991 in late Soviet-era Moscow, and such things were rare. The Voinovs put the Spectrum to good use. They picked up programming and quickly graduated from playing games to designing their own.That...

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Most U.S. Stocks Rise, Treasuries Retreat as Gold, Silver Plunge

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 2:50 PM EDT By Michael P. Regan and Rita Nazareth Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Most U.S. stocks gained, halting a four-day slump, European equities rebounded and Treasuries fell amid speculation policy makers will act to prevent the debt crisis from worsening. Silver, gold and copper sank.The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index added 0.3 percent at 1:43 p.m. New York time after plunging 7.1 percent in the first four days of the week. More than three stocks gained for every two that fell on U.S. exchanges. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose...

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ECB May Step Up Crisis Response Next Month

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 10:51 AM EDT By Gabi Thesing and Meera Louis (See EXT4 for more on the European debt crisis.)Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank may step up efforts to boost growth and ease financial-market tensions as early as next month, Governing Council members said.Austria’s Ewald Nowotny and Belgium’s Luc Coene said in Washington that potential measures include the reintroduction of 12-month loans to banks. Asked if an interest-rate cut is warranted, Coene said while that wouldn’t help to bring down longer-term borrowing...

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Fiat's Marchionne, Italian Credit Rating Downgrade

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota Zynga IPO Outlook July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Yoshikami, chief investment strategist atJuly 7 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Yoshikami, chief investment strategist at YCMNet Advisors, Bob Rice, general managing partner at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, Paul Martino, managing director at Bullpen Capital, and Paul Bard, director of research at Renaissance Capital LLC, talk about Zynga Inc.'s plan to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering and the outlook for the company. (Excerpts. Source: Bloomberg)View the original article herePeliculas Onl...

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Signs of Stress Grow at European Banks

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota By Peter Coy Europe’s debt mess has been festering for so long it sometimes feels more like a chronic condition than a life-or-death crisis. But as negotiations to prevent a Greek default drag on, investors and lenders increasingly are concerned that a banking crisis could break out, dragging down the Continental economy before Greece even has a chance to default. On Sept. 21 the International Monetary Fund estimated that Europe’s banks face more than $400 billion in losses and said that weak banks need to raise capital quickly.The core of the problem?...

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France’s BNP, SocGen Trim Balance Sheets

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 5:45 AM EDT By Fabio Benedetti-Valentini (Updates shares and CDSs in ninth, 14th paragraphs.)Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- BNP Paribas SA and Societe Generale SA, France’s two largest banks, are trimming about 300 billion euros ($405 billion) off their balance sheets as Europe’s deepening debt crisis threatens to make them too big to save.At the end of March, French financial firms had $672 billion in public and private debt in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain, according to Basel, Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlements....

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Ship Owner to Mothball Supertanker on Glut

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota September 23, 2011, 9:55 AM EDT By Michelle Wiese Bockmann (Updates with daily rents in third paragraph.)Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- A shipowner will mothball a newly built supertanker for the first time since the 1980s as a glut of the ships erodes earnings to an unprofitable $1,000 a day.The tanker, capable of carrying 2 million barrels of crude, will be sent to a natural harbor in Malaysia, Arild Johannessen, an Oslo-based spokesman for Wilhelmsen Ship Management, which will oversee the deactivation, said by phone today. He declined to identify the...

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