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  • Havana's small community of Twitterati meets IRL Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 1:12AMA few dozen members of Cuba's small but growing Twitter community have met in real space for the first time. They got to put unfamiliar faces with familiar user names, and they commiserated about the woeful Internet access on an island that has the second-worst Web connectivity rate in the world.
  • FB to launch Facebook Credits for Indian users from July 1 Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 10:02AMNew Delhi, Jun 29 (PTI) Social networking site Facebook will next month introduce a payment system ''Facebook Credits'' for Indian users who could spend the virtual currency across various games or applications they use on the popular website.A virtual currency, Facebook Credits is already popular among gaming enthusiasts in many other countries, including the US."Facebook will introduce a new ...
  • Timing's all wrong at Takoradi Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 9:22AMThe executive chairman of Takoradi Limited Rod Hudspeth should expect little applause next week when shares in the mining explorer are tipped to come out of a two-year hibernation (aka suspension).
  • Martin County Community Calendar, updated June 29 Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 7:50AMMartin County Community Calendar
  • Archaeologists dig it up on Lord Ashley Cooper's land Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 3:42AMFor the last two weeks, somewhere along the Ashley River in Dorchester County, a team of archaeologists and College of Charleston students sifted through dirt to catch a glimpse of how European, African, and Native American cultures collided in the 17th century.
  • Rupee firms but Greek vote, oil payments eyed Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 12:21AMMUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee strengthened on Wednesday in step with a rally in domestic equities, a strong euro and firmer Asian peers, but volume was light on caution before the outcome of Greece austerity vote.
  • AP gets Knight funding to create journalistic tool Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 3:11PMThe Associated Press will be among 16 news organizations and Internet entrepreneurs sharing $4.7 million in funding to design innovative ways to find and deliver news in the digital age.
  • Juniper Networks’ Financial Performance Comes with Optimism, New Customers Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 2:56PMRobyn Denholm, executive vice president and CFO for Juniper Networks, thinks the dollar has a strong future ahead, despite of a “relatively weak” near term outlook. The euro isn’t going anywhere, either. A bold statement from Juniper, considering the company’s current … Continue reading → Juniper Networks’ Financial Performance Comes with Optimism, New Customers is a post from: SiliconANGLE We ...
  • Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, Weather, Alabama, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Hoover, Birmingham Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 1:54PMThe following are incident and offense reports from municipal police departments from ...
  • IBM keen on developing smart citizen-centric solutions for specific industries Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 11:04AMOn Thursday, June 16, IT major IBM celebrates its 100th birthday. On the occasion Mr Jeby Cherian, Director, Strategy for IBM India and South Asia, outlines for Business Line IBM's role in India and how the company sees its engagement with the country shaping up in the future.
  • Rupee reverses gains on weak local shares, euro Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 8:42AMMUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee reversed early gains and ended marginally weaker on Wednesday as the euro slipped against the dollar and local shares extended losses, while dollar demand from oil importers also dampened sentiment.
  • Chinese mount global homebuying spree Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:15AMFrom Vancouver to Vietnam, Chinese investors are grabbing properties across the world after governments in Hong Kong and Beijing imposed purchasing and financing limits to cool off domestic markets
  • Gold rallies Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 9:21AMGold rallied on Tuesday as the jewellery sector came looking for bargains, the dollar slipped and investors fretted about the Greek debt crisis.
  • Morning Gold Market Report Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 7:45AMCompiled 06/14/11 6:00 AM ( CT ) Statistics: London Gold Fix $1,519.00 -$5.70 LME Copper Stocks 473,675 tons -2,075 tons GOLD MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CST) To start
  • Zimbabwe: Deviant Timba, Associates Ordered to Pay Back Loot Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 7:01AMTHE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has ordered fired ReNaissance Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) founder and boss, Patterson Timba and associate shareholders, to pay back within 30 days about US$10 million in depositors funds they plundered from the institution's banking unit. The central bank has also directed ReNaissance Merchant Bank (RMB) to submit, within the same period, a liquidity ...
  • Two Turkish men held with fake currency worth Rs. 1.54 crore Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 3:56AMTwo Turkish nationals have been arrested from Uttar Pradesh by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for carrying very high quality fake Indian currency worth Rs. 1.54 crore. They were also carrying fake US dollars.
  • Mauritius Rupee Gains Most in Almost 3 Months to Dollar, Bank Raises Rates Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 1:28AMMauritius’s rupee strengthened the most in almost three months against the dollar after the central bank raised its benchmark rate to curb inflation that is near its highest level in more than two years.
  • Rupee snaps two weeks of gains against US dollar, ends 3 paise down Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 12:56PMSnapping its two-week-long gaining spree the rupee ended lower by three paise at 44.70/71 against the US currency on mild dollar demand from banks and importers on the back of a firm dollar overseas.
  • Gold Up-Date - June 07, 2011 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 9:40AMThe demand for physical gold remains robust as investors add bullion bars and coins to their portfolios.
  • Reliance Securities Launches Investor Awareness Program Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 2:48AM-
  • Rupee backs from 1-mth high on importer dlr demand Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 2:28AMMUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee was firm on Wednesday in tandem with broad dollar weakness overseas, but pulled back from one-month high due to choppy local shares and importer demand.
  • Needles in brief - a collection of area events. Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 2:20AMNEEDLES - Shoppers at Needles Towne Centre on East Broadway at Interstate 40 will find a new surface on Ice Plant Road. Wheeler Paving of Riverside, Calif., put down the last of the new blacktop on June 2, striping was done June 3. Funding for the $78,000 project comes from Measure I, the half-cent county sales tax dedicated to transportation improvements.
  • Rupee hits 1-month-high; oil likely to weigh Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 2:09AMMUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee reversed early losses and touched a one-month high on Wednesday helped by dollar sales by corporates, but demand for the greenback from oil refiners and weak local shares are likely to cap gains.
  • RBS Rebuilds in Asia After Equity Rank Fell in Retrenchment Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 9:24PMRoyal Bank of Scotland Group Plc plans to expand operations in China and rebuild its Asian equity capital markets unit after the workforce at its corporate and investment banking operations in the region dropped last year.
  • Letters: Cable and the unions Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 6:34PMCable's threat to the unions
  • THE RUPEE: dollar falls | Business Recorder Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 6:28PMThe dollar was under pressure as the rupee managed to recover slightly against the greenback on the currency market on Tuesday, experts said. The rupee extended its rise versus dollar, picking up two paisa for buying and selling at 85.90 and 85.95, they said.
  • THE RUPEE: divergent trend | Business Recorder Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 6:28PMTwo-way movement was again witnessed on the currency market on Tuesday in process of trading, money experts said. The rupee drifted lower against dollar, losing 12 paisa for buying at 85.88 and 85.93, they said.
  • Positive news in Europe boosts FTSE Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 6:06PMLONDON FTSE 100 CLOSE 5,989.99 +51.12
  • Chinese brokers take on the world Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 5:35PMNick Lord talks to BTIG’s Asia chief executive, Jesse Lentchner, about the challenges that Chinese brokerages will face when they venture abroad.
  • More allegations against Securency: report Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 5:10PMRBA currency firm lobbied hard to get on then PM's agenda. 1 Jun 2011 7:37 AM
  • India shares upbeat Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 3:39PMIndian shares brushed aside lower-than-expected economic growth data to close at their highest level in more than two weeks yesterday, tracking sharp gains across Asian and European markets.
  • Abheek Barua: The Subbarao years - a defence Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 2:18PMAs the Pepsi tag line went, “Nothing official about it.” However, if the rumour mills are to be believed, these are the last few months of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao’s tenure at the helm of the central bank.
  • Floods push Australia into red but not for long, says bank Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 1:32PMAustralia's economy probably shrank last quarter for the first time since 2008 as floods inundated coal mines and farmland, a contraction the central bank sees as temporary before growth rebounds in the second half of the year.First-quarter...
  • FTSE closes up 0.86% Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 11:22AMStocks closed higher on Tuesday, on hopes of a second international bailout for Greece.
  • Mauritian Rupee Snaps Four-Day Gain, Stocks Drop on European Debt Concern Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 6:55AMMauritius’s rupee depreciated for the first time in a week against the dollar and stocks fell the most in more than two months as the debt crisis in Europe, the nation’s main market, curbed demand for emerging-market assets.
  • THE RUPEE: dollar past Rs 87 | Business Recorder Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 2:16AMPanic buying of dollars as a result of different speculations pushed the rupee lower sharply against dollar on the money market during the week ended on May 21, 2011. On the interbank market, the rupee lost 115 paisa in relation to dollar for buying and selling at Rs 86.35 and Rs 86.40.
  • Organized crime part of fish caught for aboriginals but sold illegally:inquiry Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 2:43PMVANCOUVER - Organized crime has infiltrated the black-market trade of salmon caught for aboriginal food and ceremonial purposes, apparently diverting it for sale on the open market, an inquiry into the Fraser River fishery has heard.
  • Three arrested with 2,490 fake notes Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 9:45AMAhmedabad, May 15 (PTI) Three persons, including a father-son duo, were arrested with 2,490 fake Indian currency notes of 1,000 denomination here, police said today.
  • Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, Weather, Alabama, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Hoover, Birmingham Wednesday, May 11, 2011 @ 11:33AMThe following are incident and offense reports from municipal police departments from ...
  • Foreign national robbed Monday, May 9, 2011 @ 11:03AMNew Delhi, May 9 (PTI) A foreign national was robbed of her belongings by two motorcycle-borne men here while she was travelling in a n autorickshaw, police said today.The incident took place in Mandir Marg area yesterday when Alicia Rose Muhlhauser was travelling in a three-wheeler along with her friend, a senior police official said.Muhlauser lives in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.In her complaint ...
  • Dose of realism for IT stocks Monday, April 18, 2011 @ 1:37PMIn the wake of soaring oil prices and sticky inflation, the markets were betting on the technology stocks as a defensive strategy. Heavy buying pushed prices of large-cap IT stocks to all-time highs, as investors bet on the US-recovery-led growth.
  • Emerging Market Currencies Poised to Pop: HSBC Monday, April 18, 2011 @ 10:37AMNEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The stars are aligned for emerging market currencies, according to the HSBC foreign exchange team. The HSBC team said the combination of U.S. dollar weakness and rising food and energy costs across the emerging markets, which have led to monetary policy tightening by central banks, have been providing emerging market currencies with support. "In some cases, greater ...
  • Rupee weakens on stock falls, losses in euro Monday, April 18, 2011 @ 8:37AMMUMBAI (Reuters) - The rupee weakened on Monday, erasing early gains notched up on expectations of dollar inflows, hurt by losses in local shares and the dollar's strength against the euro.
  • Infosys could lose some of its sheen: analysts Monday, April 18, 2011 @ 8:29AMMUMBAI, INDIA: Infosys Technologies shares fell nearly 4 per cent on Monday, a day after it missed sales growth expectations, triggering a slew of price cuts by brokers and worries of loss of market share and lower margins.
  • Infosys weak results raises questions, spurs downgrades Monday, April 18, 2011 @ 6:57AMMUMBAI (Reuters) - Infosys Technologies shares fell nearly 4 percent on Monday, a day after it missed sales growth expectations, triggering a slew of price cuts by brokers and worries of loss of market share and lower margins.
  • 150th Anniversary of the U.S. Dakota War of 1862: A Commemoration Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 11:41PMIntroduction by Curtis Dahlin Editor's note: This is the first of a series of articles to be published ahead of the 150th anniversary of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862.
  • India, and the Economic Folly of a College Degree Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 10:42PMPolitically correct worship of college education by the political class has rendered the college deg
  • 7-year jail term in fake currency case Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 4:04PMH Ashraf, a native of West Bengal, was on Saturday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the district and sessions court at Margao for circulating fake notes in Vasco last year.
  • Researching Australian Law Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 1:06PMThe authors welcome suggestions for the improvement of this guide, especially with reference to sources that may have been overlooked. If you only remember one source for Australian legal research, make it AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute).
  • Singapore Death Book Has a Sympathetic Hearing Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 4:58AMBritish author gets some traction on contempt appeal