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  • Wall Street opens flat after durables data

    Feb 28, 2012 6:54

    Wall Street opens flat after durables data

    Stocks opened little changed on Tuesday after a report showing a sharp drop in durable goods orders cut into upbeat sentiment a day after the S&P 500 closed at its highest since June 2008. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI shed 5.60 [...]

     
  • Syrian army pounds rebels, new move at U.N.

    Feb 28, 2012 6:52

    Syrian army pounds rebels, new move at U.N.

    Syrian forces shelled opposition strongholds, killing at least 25 people, on Tuesday and a wounded British photographer was smuggled out of Homs into neighboring Lebanon. France said the U.N. Security Council was starting work on a draft resolution on the violence [...]

     
  • Yahoo threatens Facebook as patent war looms

    Feb 28, 2012 6:50

    Yahoo threatens Facebook as patent war looms

    Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector. Yahoo has asserted claims on patents [...]

     
  • Exclusive: Microsoft, others in Google+ complaint to EU

    Feb 28, 2012 6:49

    Exclusive: Microsoft, others in Google+ complaint to EU

    Microsoft and several other firms have complained to EU antitrust regulators about Google’s social networking tool, two people familiar with the matter said, in a move that may prompt the EU to broaden its ongoing investigation into Google. Microsoft’s complaint [...]

     
  • Obama to sign order creating trade enforcement unit

    Feb 28, 2012 6:49

    Obama to sign order creating trade enforcement unit

    President Barack Obama, following through on a promise to beef up enforcement of trade agreements, on Tuesday will sign an executive order creating a new government team to make sure China and others play by the rules, the White House said. The [...]

     
  • Rocket lifts off with 3G military communications

    Feb 28, 2012 6:48

    Rocket lifts off with 3G military communications

    An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday carrying the first satellite in a new military network designed to give cellphone-like 3G communications to troops on the move. The 191-foot- (58-metre-) tall Atlas [...]

     
 
 
 
 
 
  • Rally on Wall St to be put to test

    Rally on Wall St to be put to test

    Feb 25, 2012 7:09

    A rally on Wall Street will be put to the test next week, with the S&P 500 at its highest level since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers...

     
 
 
 
 
  • Wall Street opens flat after durables data

    Wall Street opens flat after durables data

    Feb 28, 2012 6:54

    Stocks opened little changed on Tuesday after a report showing a sharp drop in durable goods orders cut into upbeat sentiment a day after the...

     
 
 

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