USA Today — August 31, 2010 — The administration spent Tuesday drawing attention to the formal end of the United States’ seven-year combat mission in Iraq. President Obama rolled out speeches stateside, and Vice President Biden met with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad to end a political impasse there. Several hours before the president was to [...]
MarketWatch – August 31, 2010 — U.S. blue-chip stocks fell Tuesday, piling on additional losses to cap their worst August since 2001, as minutes from the last meeting of the Federal Reserve added to jitters about the growth of the economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA 10,015, +4.99, +0.05%) fell back under the [...]
The Wall Street Journal — August 31, 2010 — Federal Reserve officials wrestled with a slew of unanswered questions about the economy before deciding at their Aug. 10 meeting to alter their strategy to prevent their portfolio of securities from shrinking, minutes of the meeting, released Wednesday after the usual lag, show. High unemployment was [...]
The Wall Street Journal — August 31, 2010 — Stocks capped their worst August since 2001 with more losses on Tuesday, as minutes from the last meeting of the Federal Reserve added to jitters about the economic recovery. It’s been a bruising month for stocks, with the Dow and S&P 500 on pace to post [...]
TechCrunch — August 31, 2010 — There’s always something cool coming out of Y Combinator, but even so Greplin stands out from the crowd. It’s a personal search engine for all that data you keep locked away in the cloud. If you’ve used desktop search like spotlight, you’ll get Greplin right away. It’s like spotlight [...]
Xinhua — August 31, 2010 — Visiting China’s special representative on Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei said Tuesday that Beijing plans to put forward fresh measures to resume the stalled six-party talks at an early date. Wu made the comment to reporters after meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, but he did not elaborate [...]
BBC News — August 31, 2010 — An Indian Home Ministry official told the BBC that “any company with a telecoms network should be accessible”. “It could be Google or Skype, but anyone operating in India will have to provide data,” he said. The move follows high-profile talks with Blackberry maker Research in Motion about [...]
MediaBeat — August 31, 2010 — It takes just under five months to redesign one of the largest news aggregation sites in the world and bring in a new CEO, apparently. On the heels of former CEO Jay Adelson’s departure in April, news aggregator Digg will reportedly announce former online retailer Amazon.com executive Matt Williams as [...]
The brand new Digg is under fire on its first ever Monday from both its most loyal users and the competition at Reddit. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com In response to Digg v4′s debut just last Wednesday, power users launched a Digg Revolt today, some calling it “Quit Digg Day,” and the Reddit community [...]
USA Today — August 31, 2010 — Microsoft will release a redesigned wireless controller for its Xbox 360 console which will feature a transforming directional pad. The silver controller includes a “transforming D-pad” that allows players to alter the way the directional pad is used. Players can use the standard plus format as they would [...]
