AP - Federal regulators are looking into the interactions between Twitter and a company called Ubermedia, which develops applications that help users follow and communicate with each other on Twitter’s popular online messaging service, according to two published reports.[Read more...]
If I asked you which of the major social sites you thought sent us the most traffic, you might think it was Twitter. After all, the TechCrunch Twitter account has over 1.7 million followers. When you compare this to the (just under) 250,000 fans our Facebook TechCrunch page has, it should be no [...]
Previous of Companies Next FTSE 100 FTSE 250 SAB, which brews Grolsch and Peroni, came under pressure last week after Foster’s rebuffed its A$9.51bn (£6.3bn) cash bid. But, it has been clawing back some of those losses after Investec became one of [...]
AP - Medicare officials confirmed Thursday that the program will cover the $93,000 price tag for prostate cancer drug Provenge, an innovative therapy that typically gives men suffering from an incurable stage of the disease an extra four months to live.[Read more...]
Award-winning broadcaster David Dunseith has died, the BBC has announced.[Read more...]
Reuters - Firefighters inside a nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico scrambled on Thursday to clear brush from around barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste stored a few miles from the edge of monster blaze roaring through surrounding forests.[Read more...]
The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing Internet messaging-service Twitter Inc. and its interactions with at least one other company that build programs using Twitter data, according to a person familiar with the matter. The precise focus of the review is not clear, but representatives of the FTC’s antitrust arm have requested information from a company [...]
NEW YORK—U.S. stocks surged for a fourth straight day to give a strong close to the second quarter amid encouraging Chicago-area economic data and a pledge from German banks to support heavily indebted Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up rose 152.92 points, or 1.25%, to 12414.34. Intel led the Dow higher, [...]
Kevin Spacey in Sam Mendes’ production of Richard III at the Old Vic Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR By Michael Simkins 8:29PM BST 30 Jun 2011 Comments The reviews for Kevin Spacey’s triumphant portrayal of Richard [...]
The receipt was found hanging out of an ATM machine By Jon Swaine, New York 9:08PM BST 30 Jun 2011 Comments The receipt, discovered hanging out of [...]
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