The Great NFL Referee Collapse of 2012: What We Learned From Seahawks Vs Packers Professional football’s Dow Jones dropped 1,000 points at Monday night’s closing bell, the moment in-over-their-heads replacement refs handed the Seahawks an undeserved victory over the Packers. If you never... Read more...
Summary: If a Twitter user posts a defamatory tweet, they could get sued. But could Twitter itself be sued as a ’secondary publisher’ for simply being the platform to an ‘illegal’ tweet? Could Twitter to blame for its users tweets when they are deemed unlawful, either through defamation... Read more...
At Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), opponents of the act avoided familiar claims that the legislation would "break the Internet." But the hearing did highlight Internet companies' fears that the bill would undermine the Digital Millennium Copyri... Read more...
The dollar plunged today following a United Nations report which called for the greenback to be replaced as the global reserve currency by the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs). The dollar’s trend of moving inversely to the stock market has seemingly been snapped, ... Read more...
The Dow plunged Thursday amid buzz in the market that European banks have halted lending. One trader, on the condition of anonymity, said he heard fixed income desks in Europe shut down early because there was no liquidity — basically European banks are halting lending right now. "This i... Read more...
The euro has jumped and stock markets have risen on reports that eurozone leaders have agreed the details of a plan to rescue debt-ridden Greece. Leaders had finally agreed an interest rate at which to lend money to Greece, should it be needed, the reports said. As a result, the euro gained mo... Read more...
Major indexes decline as nervousness about the economy puts the brakes on a recent rally. The dollar firms; tech sector hurt by downgrade NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks tumbled for the second day in a row Thursday as concerns about the economic recovery resurfaced, the dollar strengthened and... Read more...