Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defence contractor by revenues, reports second-quarter results that beat analysts’ earnings estimates but fall slightly short of forecasts for revenues
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Cable thieves in World Cup scam Independent Online Bantam said police would work with Eskom to ensure that electricity is legally supplied to people. “What we have seen is that these thieves are taking … and more
A lack of clarity about energy and healthcare policy is restraining the pace of economic recovery among small businesses in the US, according to the world’s largest package delivery company
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US needs to deliver certainty, says UPS
Second-quarter profits soar at the world’s largest asset manager on the back of improved markets and the 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors
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BGI deal boosts BlackRock profits
Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud U.S. News & World Report (blog) As the Wall Street Journal's John Fund reports, Minnesota Democrat Al Franken's narrow, 312-vote victory in 2008 over incumbent Sen. … and more
Private equity firms are scouring the world for deals, with Carlyle securing two deals and competing for a third this week alone
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Carlyle seals two buy-out deals, seeking third
Delta Air Lines swung to it first quarterly profit in more than two years, as the world’s biggest carrier by revenues benefited from rebounding demand for travel, filling its planes and raising ticket price
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Pick-up in air travel lifts Delta to profit
Toy Story 3 is on course to become the biggest-grossing animated film ever released by Walt Disney after generating $630.2m in its first month in cinemas, with the film yet to screen in about half of the world’s movie markets
Briefs: MLS wants to keep Donovan after World Cup San Jose Mercury News A second former University of Kansas athletics official admitted in court that he knew about a massive scam that allegedly involved the theft and sale of at … and more
As liquidity remains tight the limits on access to export credit guarantees have upset many of the world’s biggest airlines, which claim the issue has led to an unfairly distorted market
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Aircraft financing debate to come to a head
Boeing, the US aircraft maker, publishes an upgraded estimate of what it believes the world’s airlines will buy in coming years, led by carriers in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific market
As its influence grows across the web, Google’s algorithm is starting to shape the world it describes
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Groups magnify chances of Google hits
Despite reservations, the world remains remarkably tolerant of anti-social behaviour in the markets and in the wider business environment
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Tackling anti-social financial behaviour
Despite reservations, the world remains remarkably tolerant of anti-social behaviour in the markets and in the wider business environment
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Tackling antisocial financial behaviour
News Around The World Today (blog) Foreclosure Rescue Scams : How to Recognize Bogus Mortgage Help Housing Watch After all, you may be behind on your home loan. Credit card bills could be past due, as well. And you're likely struggling just to make ends meet. … Scam targets people facing foreclosure KY3 all 41 news articles
Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive, has predicted that the Chinese government will renew his company’s licence, a move that would allow it to continue operating in the world’s biggest internet market
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Google confident of China licence renewal
John Paulson – one of the world’s most prominent hedge fund managers – has suffered a second consecutive month of steep losses for his flagship hedge funds, most of which are heavily geared towards a recovery in the US economy
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Paulson’s flagship funds hit by volatility
Pelosi's Healthcare Town Hall Plan Will Hurt Democrats U.S. News & World Report (blog) Chuck Schumer helped them raise from Wall Street . Earlier this month, a hedge fund manager at the center of the Goldman Sachs fraud case held a fundraiser … and more
For Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard – the company behind ‘Call of Duty’, the world’s most popular video game – challenges vary from network ownership to new platforms
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Activision stays ahead of game market
Capital-intensive companies could reconsider their investment plans because of the recent industrial unrest, says Manpower, one of the world’s biggest recruitment companies
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US groups wary of China strikes record
The global economy continues to cool with China’s purchasing index barely above contraction levels, weekly unemployment claims in the US not only stubbornly high but headed in the wrong direction, and the US ISM weaker than expected. Bloomberg reports China Manufacturing Slows for Second Month, PMI Shows.China’s manufacturing expanded at a slower pace for a second month in June, adding to signs that growth in the world’s third-largest economy is moderating. The Purchasing Managers’ Index …
It is easy to pick on Paul Krugman. So easy in fact, that it is not even fair sport. However, if you can separate the wheat from the chaff, sometimes there are nuggets of truth in what Krugman writes. For example, please consider The Third Depression.We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably look more like the Long Depression than the much more severe Great Depression. But the cost — to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives …
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How Policy Errors Cause Depressions (and how "in isolation" some things Krugman says make sense)
Financing for Airbus’ next-generation passenger airliner has been thrown into doubt by a World Trade Organisation ruling that the company’s A380 super jumbo jet received illegal export subsidies from European governments
New scam targets Valley renters AZ Central.com (blog) There were pictures of the home and an e-mail address for the owner who said he was in South Africa doing contract work for the World Cup. …
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Without a licence Google would be forced to shut down its operations in China, which could eventually jeopardise its position as the world’s leading online advertising company
Symantec warns SMEs against tax-related phishing scams SmartCompany.com.au “A lot of this is really topical, because it's how spammers and phishing campaigns work . We've seen a fair bit of World Cup stuff, and now because tax … and more
Apple is in talks with China’s second-largest mobile phone carrier to bring its hit iPad and latest iPhone to the world’s most populous country
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China Unicom in talks over iPad and iPhone 4
Enron's Jailed CEO to Run for US President Sovereign Society Wall Street is wise to this scam . That's why they're secretly shorting the most dangerous “safe” investment in the world… municipal bonds… while eagerly … and more
The Russian president, who is touring Silicon Valley companies, sends his first ‘tweet’ from the offices of the messaging service, which is struggling with outages because of usage spikes during the World Cup
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Twitter stumbles as Medvedev visits
Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company, scored an important legal victory when the US Supreme Court said a lower court had overstepped its authority by issuing an injunction against the planting of genetically modified alfalfa seeds
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Monsanto scores alfalfa seed victory
Chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, will make a rare on-stage appearance before the world’s advertising community this week
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Facebook looks to boost advertising profile
Beware 'Watch FIFA World Cup Online' and other championship scams WalletPop (blog) The site is full of bogus product and work-from-home ads, and will eventually lead you to http://worldcuplivestreaming2010.blogspot.com/, camouflaged by a … and more
Defend education, cancel the debt to the banks Workers World The book “Low-Wage Capitalism” says the following about the “ education scam ”: “All the apologists for the system have been touting education as the way for …
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Defend education, cancel the debt to the banks – Workers World
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –Expanding the reach of mobile learning opportunities to a full range of the world’s most popular mobile platforms, Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today released native applications for Android(TM), BlackBerry(R) and iPhone(R) OS powered devices that give millions of students full access to their course information directly from their smartphones. Read more.
Law enforcement officials have objected to AOL’s pending sale of one of the largest instant-messaging services to a Russian investment firm, fearing it will put some of the world’s top criminals further from their reach
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US raises objections over ICQ sale plans
One of the world’s biggest bond fund managers is expanding into European equities as it seeks to diversify its core fixed-income business
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Pimco to tap European equities
This week on 20/20: Close to home TVNZ It's a scam that's being run all over the world. 20/20 confronts a scammer and finds out what you need to know to avoid being taken to the cleaners. …
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This week on 20/20: Close to home – TVNZ
A survey by one of the world’s biggest recruiters suggests that the global manufacturing sector will continue to lead job creation in the third quarter of the year
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Manufacturing jobs lead recovery
Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, places mobile technology and e-commerce at the centre of the global expansion plans of the world’s largest retailer
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Walmart targets e-commerce for growth
Two of the best known names in management consultancy, Booz & Co and AT Kearney, are in talks over a deal to bring the firms together to form the world’s third-largest consultancy
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Booz and AT Kearney in talks to combine
The first big video game franchise to appear on a social network is launched on Friday when FIFA Superstars, a football World Cup game, goes live on Facebook
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Football game kicks Facebook to higher league
Some of the world’s biggest oil companies are distancing themselves from BP as its growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatens Big Oil’s plans for the most productive oil-producing region of the US
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Big oil groups break ranks with BP
Nielsen, the world’s largest audience measurement company, aims to raise $1.75bn in one of this year’s largest initial public offerings, according to a regulatory filing
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Nielsen aims to raise $1.75bn in IPO
Facebook introduced drastically simplified privacy controls in an effort to appease regulators and advocacy groups who have criticised the world’s largest social network for taking liberties with user data
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Facebook acts to appease critics on privacy
The World Cup: Why I'm worried Politicsweb In order to work their scam the syndicate had penetrated Home Affairs (to get false IDs), Foreign Affairs (for a false visa), the Companies and Intellectual … and more
Japanese group set to invest $100m in one of the world’s largest producers of enriched uranium, as the top players in the nuclear industry race to secure their supply chain
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Toshiba buys stake in enriched uranium group
Hewlett-Packard reported that second-quarter revenues topped $30bn as businesses resumed recession-delayed hardware purchases from the world’s biggest PC manufacturer
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Renewed hardware sales boost HP
After four years of comparable sales declines for the world’s largest DIY chain, Home Depot,has reported year-on-year growth for the first quarter
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US home improvement retailers
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, reported another fall in its US comparable-store sales, and said its primarily low-income customers in the US remained under pressure, in spite of a broader recovery in retail spending
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Passwords, Scams , and You PC World They then use computer scripts to generate passwords–using words commonly found in the dictionary–and work through these passwords in the hope of finding … and more