News tagged with financial
Thai flooding disrupting hard drive supplies
The massive flooding in Thailand is disrupting supplies of hard disk drives (HDDs) for the world's personal computer makers, according to companies and market intelligence firms.
Oct 29, 2011 |
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Haas study sheds eerie light on fright and financial decision making
Watching a horror movie can scare you into selling your stocks earlier than you would have otherwise. That’s the frightening evidence shown in a series of studies by Associate Professor Eduardo Andrade and Chan Jean ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 28, 2011 |
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FCC set to unveil rules for rural broadband fund
Federal regulators are set to reveal their plan Thursday for an overhaul of the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor, with the goal of redirecting the money toward broadband expansion.
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Sprint posts smallest quarterly loss in 4 years
(AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. on Wednesday reported its smallest quarterly loss in four years, as it continued a turnaround and kept getting better at keeping and attracting customers.
Oct 26, 2011 |
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New technology pinpoints anomalies in complex financial data
Identifying atypical information in financial data early could help identify problematic financial trends such as the systemic risk that recently put the U.S. and global financial systems in a downward fall. ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Amazon 3Q net income sinks, missing analyst views
(AP) -- Amazon's spending on expansion will eventually help its bottom line, but right now it's costing the online retailer on Wall Street.
Oct 25, 2011 |
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US curbs on online poker compared to Prohibition
A former US senator who now represents poker players compared US efforts to curb online gambling to Prohibition on Tuesday as he argued for legislation that would allow Internet gaming.
Oct 25, 2011 |
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What your new home will look like in 2015
The fact that the average American home is slowly but surely shrinking - and will most likely continue to do so if and when the country shakes off its current financial woes - isn't exactly revolutionary news. But when ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2011 |
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3 Questions: Ricardo Caballero on the search for safe investments
What caused the financial crisis of 2008? MIT economist Ricardo Caballero has posited that a key structural factor was a massive global imbalance between the demand for safe investments, especially bonds, ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 25, 2011 |
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California adopts extensive 'cap-and-trade' plan
(AP) -- California formally adopted the nation's most comprehensive so-called "cap-and-trade" system Thursday, an experiment by the world's eighth-largest economy that is designed to provide financial incentives for polluters ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Apple loses round in Wall St.'s expectations game
Call it the curse of great expectations. Apple did just about everything right in its latest quarter. The company increased its profit by more than 50 percent and boosted revenue by nearly 40 percent over the same quarter ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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S. Korea police arrest two men for hacking
South Korean police said Tuesday two people have been arrested for infecting about 16,000 personal computers with hacking programmes which allowed them to secretly record video of their victims.
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Facebook and eBay downplay Google threat
Silicon Valley star Sean Parker said Facebook would have to blunder in a big way for Google's social network to steal its crown.
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Chinese-Americans don't overborrow, study finds
Bad mortgage loans and rampant consumer debt were two of the primary causes for the recent economic recession in the U.S. Despite a national trend of debt problems, a University of Missouri researcher has found one American ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Yahoo's 3Q earnings may shed light on CEO firing
(AP) -- Yahoo's third-quarter earnings report may shed some light on why the Internet company abruptly fired Carol Bartz as CEO last month.
Oct 17, 2011 |
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