Apple close to replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing as iPhone’s default search? (Mac Daily News) 10 Mar 2010
In front of a packed house at the University of Washington’s computer-science building…
Former Labuan MP fined RM10,000 in default of one month’s jail (The Malay Mail) 10 Mar 2010
KOTA KINABALU: Former Member of Parliament for Labuan Datuk Suhaili Abdul Rahman, who pleaded guilty for not disclosing to the bank that he was a bankrupt when he became a guarantor in a loan application 14 years ago, was fined RM10,000 in default one month jail on Wednesday.
comScore Search Share For February: Bing Grows (Yet Slows) And Yahoo Declines Again (Search Engine Land) 10 Mar 2010
The financial analysts were busy yesterday pushing out the comScore search market share data for February, which officially comes out later today. What the data show is: Google regaining some share “lost” in January and continued gains by Bing, albeit at a somewhat slowing pace.
Rockets back above .500 after beating Wizards (The Bryan-College Station Eagle) 10 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON — For the Houston Rockets, who need as many hands on deck as possible to get out of the win-lose blahs, it was good enough simply to see Trevor Ariza and Kyle Lowry back on the court.Ariza returned after missing seven games with a left hi …
Lebanon has 11th widest spread in emerging markets on Credit Default Swaps (Zawya) 9 Mar 2010
BEIRUT: The spread on five-year Credit Default Swaps (CDS) for Lebanon reached 257 basis points at the end of February, compared to spreads of 270 bps for emerging markets and to 234 bps for Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle Eat & Africa (CEEMEA) region, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group.
EU considers ban of speculative credit default trading (People’s Daily) 9 Mar 2010
The European Commission said on Tuesday it would consider banning purely speculative trading of credit default swaps (CDS), which was blamed for aggravating the Greek debt crisis. The Commission “will examine closely the relevance of banning purely speculative naked sales on CDS of sovereign debt,” Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso told the European Parliament at a plenary session in …
Jonathan Takiff: Some cameras for the roughest or klutziest among us (Philadelphia Daily News) 9 Mar 2010
THE GIZMOS: Today we have cameras to bang around; a techy remedy for a St. Patrick’s Day dilemma; Android eccentricities; and a local 3-D TV demo.
TiVo posts $10MM loss as subscribers flee to other services (Geek.com) 9 Mar 2010
For many years, I looked at the TiVo perched atop my television as practically the perfect gadget, changing the way I watched television forever. But then broadband took off, Hulu and Netflix came along, iTunes started telling television shows, and televisions got their own DVR abilities built right into them. Ever since then, my TiVo [...]
Noose tightens around credit default swap market (National Post) 9 Mar 2010
The European Commission said on Tuesday it will consider banning the naked selling of derivatives contracts some EU politicians say were used by speculators to bet on a Greek bond default
County sees highest recorded year for foreclosures (Telluride Daily Planet) 9 Mar 2010
By BEN FORNELL Staff Writer Jan Stout had just closed the 93rd foreclosure file she’s worked on this year when the FedEx man showed up.
"Apple’s done a very nice job that allows people to monetize and commercialize their intellectual property" (MS Mobiles) 9 Mar 2010
Commentary: obviously previous claim of Steve Ballmer was an untruth (maybe not a lie, but clearly a false statement). Why is Steve Ballmer so kissy kissy about Apple all of a sudden?
European Union, Germany’s Merkel urge US to join action against some credit default swaps (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) 9 Mar 2010
BRUSSELS - European officials urged the U.S. to join in a crackdown on speculators who bet against Europe’s currency union, warning they might ban some credit default swaps — opaque financial instruments blamed for worsening the world financial crisis.
EU contemplates banning speculative credit default trading (EARTHtimes.org) 9 Mar 2010
Strasbourg, France - The European Union’s executive is to consider banning naked speculative trading in credit default swaps (CDS), a tool by which investors try to cover themselves against default, the head of the body said Tuesday. Both the EU an…
EU threatens to ban some credit default swaps (AP via Yahoo! Finance) 9 Mar 2010
The European Union executive is threatening to ban some credit default swaps in a swipe at speculators who made huge bets against the euro and the chances of Greece not repaying its debt in recent weeks.
Merkel Says Credit Default Swaps Must Be Regulated Quickly (Bloomberg) 9 Mar 2010
March 9 (Bloomberg) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Greek financial crisis showed credit-default swaps need to be regulated quickly. She spoke today in Luxembourg at a briefing with Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.