Indian stock Markets firm on strong global cues

Indian Equities witnessed across the board buying activity as sentiments turned bullish after governments across the world tried to keep financial systems running by injecting  fresh liquidity. "The markets are...

Unique service: Husbands for rent in Argentina

An Aregntianan company has started a unique service of providing husband on hourly basis. "Any woman can get a husband at an hourly rate in Buenos Aires, thanks to a company offering to do the repairs and installations that every home needs, and all "without problems in the...

Pelosi Calls for Investigation into Congressman Mahoney (D-FL)

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called on the House Ethics Committee to "immediately and thoroughly" investigate a report by ABC News today that Florida Rep. Tim Mahoney secretly paid his former alleged mistress...

DVD copying software gets pulled

Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Warner Bros. These are the studios that filed a law suit against Realnetworks."Software which claimed to be a legal way of copying DVDs...

Asia stocks Markets hit new lows as crisis deepens

All the efforts by several governments - including  the mother of all bail out plan the establishment of a US$700 billion (S$1 trillion) rescue fund is not yielding any results and have failed to revive the investors confidence. Many Asian and European governments have...

MySpace about to lose out to Facebook in U.S.?

"""The team at Pingdom, a firm that focuses primarily on uptime and performance, has posted a new blog entry estimating that Facebook will overtake MySpace as the top social network in the U.S. within a month or two....

Need a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required.

"By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: September 17, 2008 Are you capable of taking a perfectly good 158-year-old company and turning it into dust? If so, then you may not be earning up to your full potential.You should...

FAIL: TPG loses 1.35 billion in WaMu investment

Think you've lost some money? Not even close. Private equity firm, TPG, lost $1.35 BILLION because they invested in Washington Mutual six months ago. If you've missed the news recently, WaMu just crashed, burned, and...

Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction

"Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction photo credit: laffy4k New York Times called the possibility of an AIG liquidation “as close to an extinction-level event as the financial markets have seen since the Great Depression.” We keep hearing that the current...

Update: National capitalism reborn, first controlled 9/15 demolition Lehman, ...

Update Sept-19: US creates government sponsored Bad Bank Update Sept-17John W. Snow, Cerberus hedge fund CEO (Chrysler) says:"We have a broken Market economy, we have to fix it" Update Sept-15National capitalism...

US bans key Indian drug imports

After prolong investigations The US drug regulator FDA has banned top Indian Pharmaceuticals company Ranbaxy after latter was  found selling unsafe medicines in the country.US Department of Justice has...

Abolish Absolut, From This World, Absolutely :: MAXINE

""This particular ad, which ran in Mexico, was based upon historical perspectives and was created with a Mexican sensibility [ed. with an English Headline for the banner copy?]," said a statement identified as being...

Vijay Singh wins Deutsche Bank Championship

"Vijay Singh, helped by three monster birdie putts, eased to his third PGA Tour title in five weeks with a commanding five-shot victory at the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday. Three off the pace overnight, the Fijian world number five fired a superb eight-under-par 63 in...

Boeing Says It Might Exit Tanker Bidding

The saga of the Government getting tanked continues. After several false starts and missteps the bidding was opened up again, now Boeing is asking for more time."Boeing said it may pull out of the competition to win...

Nepalese sue US company over Iraq

Close Relatives of killed Nepali workers have filed a case of human trafficking against American company KBR, formerly owned by former US vice president Dick Cheny. The workers were wrongly recruited on the promise of job in Jordan but posted at US air base in Iraq. ...

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