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Large rally places job demands on Italian government
Protesters marching in the tens of thousands rallied in Italy on Sunday to rail against the policies of the new coalition government. Around 100,000 protesters, led by trade unionists, converged on Rome to wave red flags and placards, urging changes to austerity measures. The union-led crowd called for the new government of centre-left Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to focus on job ...
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Americans happier with economic figures
Americans are at their most optimistic since 2007 according to a Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment. The preliminary index has shown optimism increased to 83.7 in May as stocks surged and real estate climbed. With record stock prices boosting household wealth and unemployment down in some areas, consumers were able to see their way through the effects of ...
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Work starts on creation of new Dubai island
Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...
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Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians
Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...
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Target looks for new ideas from digital world
Target Corp has opened a new office base in San Francisco in order to discover technology ideas. With the second-largest US retailer trying to grow its online commerce business, a Technology Innovation Center has been set up to develop mobile commerce, which has become a particular focus of retailers because new technology allows people to use their mobile devices to shop. With a huge ...
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Elizabeth
Right from the start, Indian director Shekhar Kapur lets us know that his first English-language film, "Elizabeth," is no Masterpiece Theater or Merchant-Ivory costume production. The film opens in a grisly, dank, rat-infested dungeon where several guards are shaving the heads of three Protestant "heretics," taking bits and pieces of their scalps along with the hair. The camera then follows them o ... ...
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Hackers target important Saudi websites
The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...
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Market Snapshot Stock futures flat no data Fed’s Evans to speak
MADRID (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock market futures pointed to a flat open on Monday, with investors seen taking a breath after a blockbuster prior week. There's no data on the calendar, though Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans is due to ...
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How going pop-up helped us sell our ponchos
Katy Isaacs and Julia Wonke, co-founders of poncho company Rainwave, started online but jumped at the opportunity to use a pop-up space on the King's Road. Here Katy tells their ...
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Monday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - May 20 2013
See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactive Tools upgraded to a new content management ...
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Hedge Fund Owner Cohen Gets Subpoena to Testify
SAC Capital Advisors , a development that signals a newly aggressive phase in the multiyear inquiry, according to lawyers and executives briefed on the case.Issued last week, the grand jury subpoena came as part of a broader round of requests from criminal authorities. Other SAC executives were also named in the subpoenas, the lawyers and executives said, and the fund itself received requests ...
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