Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several nations this weekend demanding political justice, economic opportunity, and a change to the status quo. Demonstrators -- who powered the Arab Spring, the worldwide Occupy protests during the summer, and the anti-austerity marches of the European autumn -- are back on the streets in a winter of discontent.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Eleazar David Meléndez
Despite a mediocre earnings season and signs of an overbought market, Wall Street bulls are likely to remain in control this week.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Angela Moon
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Is there anyone on the planet who hasn't read of the spate of suicides, worker deaths and accidents at the Chinese plants owned by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industries, better known as Foxconn?.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by David Zielenziger
Rumors are sweeping the Internet that Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the world's tallest, is on fire, while officials claim it's just fog
Saturday, February 11, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
U.S. overspending on the military has diverted resources from civilian / social investments, including public goods, weakening the U.S. economy, and, by extension, weakening the nation.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 by Joseph Lazzaro
Despite a mediocre earnings season and signs of an overbought market, Wall Street bulls are likely to remain in control next week. There are a number of catalysts that have helped the market this year, including a slew of improved economic data and the Federal Reserve's vow to keep interest rates low.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 by Angela Moon
America Movil SAB, the Mexican telecommunications firm, plans to make capital expenditures of $8.5 billion to $9 billion in 2012 as part of its investment plan in networks and focus strategy on subscriber growth.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 by Bhaskar Prasad
The 2012 Grammy Awards are set to take place Sunday night live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif. Here is where you can live stream the red carpet online, beginning at 5 p.m. EST.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several nations this weekend demanding political justice, economic opportunity, and a change to the status quo. Demonstrators -- who powered the Arab Spring, the worldwide Occupy protests during the summer, and the anti-austerity marches of the European autumn -- are back on the streets in a winter of discontent.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Eleazar David Meléndez
President Barack Obama will make no further changes to the rule requiring health insurance plans to provide women with coverage for contraception, although U.S. Catholic bishops still object, his chief of staff said Sunday.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Jackie Frank and Lily Kuo
TMZ is reporting that Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. According to TMZ sources, the 18-year-old was taken out of the Beverly Hilton Hotel on a stretcher Sunday.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
Stars stepped out on Saturday night to honor Whitney Houston at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Houston was slated to perform that night on the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
Sarah Palin wowed the Conservative Political Action Committee 2012 conference on Saturday, her mama grizzly roar repeatedly bringing the audience to a standing ovation and reaffirming her relevance to the Republican Party.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Sara Dover
Singer Ray-J was seen, bleary-eyed and dressed in a hooded sweatshirt, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Sunday morning, distraught over the death of Whitney Houston.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
Bahraini riot police engaged in pitched battles with petrol-bomb throwing youths on Sunday as violence escalated ahead of Tuesday's anniversary of the uprising last year, while King Hamad mocked the opposition for its "bad manners.".
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Andrew Hammond
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several nations this weekend demanding political justice, economic opportunity, and a change to the status quo. Demonstrators -- who powered the Arab Spring, the worldwide Occupy protests during the summer, and the anti-austerity marches of the European autumn -- are back on the streets in a winter of discontent.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Eleazar David Meléndez
The most important leader of Peru's leftist Shining Path insurgency was seriously wounded and captured by security forces after being shot in a remote jungle rife with drug trafficking, President Ollanta Humala said on Sunday.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
President Barack Obama will make no further changes to the rule requiring health insurance plans to provide women with coverage for contraception, although U.S. Catholic bishops still object, his chief of staff said Sunday.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Jackie Frank and Lily Kuo
The Arab League threw its support Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Yasmine Saleh and Ayman Samir
Black-masked protesters throwing petrol bombs created a wall of fire Sunday outside Greece's parliament as lawmakers inside looked set defy public rage by endorsing a new austerity deal to secure an EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Harry Papachristou and Karolina Tagaris
The most important leader of Peru's leftist Shining Path insurgency has been found dead by security forces after being shot in a remote jungle rife with drug trafficking, President Ollanta Humala said on Sunday in his first major victory against what remains of the rebel group.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in several nations this weekend demanding political justice, economic opportunity, and a change to the status quo. Demonstrators -- who powered the Arab Spring, the worldwide Occupy protests during the summer, and the anti-austerity marches of the European autumn -- are back on the streets in a winter of discontent.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Eleazar David Meléndez
Black-masked protesters throwing petrol bombs created a wall of fire Sunday outside Greece's parliament as lawmakers inside looked set defy public rage by endorsing a new austerity deal to secure an EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Harry Papachristou and Karolina Tagaris
A number of top Federal Reserve officials likely saw a need for additional monetary easing at the central bank's meeting last month, although there are few signals the central bank will move soon.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
A few months ago economists were all but certain the U.S. economy would slow sharply at the start of this year, with many warning that recession risks were growing.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Greek lawmakers looked set to agree to a deeply unpopular bailout deal on Sunday to avert what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned would be "economic chaos", and Germany demanded Greece dramatically change its ways to stay in the euro.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
U.S.-based commercial aircraft manufacturer Boeing has announced they intend to scale up production speeds of their newly launched 787 Dreamliner, to 10 planes per month, by the end of 2013.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
Greek lawmakers looked set to agree to a deeply unpopular bailout deal on Sunday to avert what Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned would be "economic chaos," and Germany demanded Athens dramatically change its ways to stay in the euro.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Harry Papachristou and Matt Robinson
Tom Storrs, who set a small North Carolina bank on the path to becoming one of the largest U.S. financial institutions, died Friday at age 93.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Turn the clock back 13 years to 1999. Seek out the Chief Information Officer of every large business. What was the big worry? Y2K.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by David Zielenziger
The U.S.-Israeli consortium developing the Tamar natural-gas field off Israel's coast said on Sunday it had signed a 15-year deal to supply an Israeli power-plant operator with an estimated $680 million worth of gas.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
The Pentagon's fiscal 2013 budget plan calls for the spending of $178.8 billion to develop and buy new warships, fighter jets, and other major weapons, a 7.5 percent drop from the level initially projected for the coming year.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Andrea Shalal-Esa
As the release date for what is surely one of the most anticipated gadgets of the year (the rumored iPhone 5) is spoken about with greater intensity, speculations regarding features and specifications take precedence.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Vinod Yalburgi
U.S.-based commercial aircraft manufacturer Boeing has announced they intend to scale up production speeds of their newly launched 787 Dreamliner, to 10 planes per month, by the end of 2013.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
The Android and iOS markets are buzzing with voice-powered software applications. Some of these applications, though inspired from Apple's Siri, take voice assistance feature in smartphones to the next level.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Sreeja VN
The countdown to the 54th annual Grammy Awards is nearly over with just hours until the show kicks off.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
Turn the clock back 13 years to 1999. Seek out the Chief Information Officer of every large business. What was the big worry? Y2K.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by David Zielenziger
As the release date for what is surely one of the most anticipated gadgets of the year (the rumored iPhone 5) is spoken about with greater intensity, speculations regarding features and specifications take precedence.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Vinod Yalburgi
The Android and iOS markets are buzzing with voice-powered software applications. Some of these applications, though inspired from Apple's Siri, take voice assistance feature in smartphones to the next level.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Sreeja VN
Aided by the World Food Programme (WFP), the Philippine government's Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is undertaking a $46,000 customization of open-source software, Sahana, which is commonly used in disaster relief to develop a national Relief Goods Inventory and Monitoring System (RGIMS).
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Swaty Sharma
Samsung is once again in the thick of a legal wrangle with Apple. The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant invoked a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, on Thursday, at a U.S. court.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by IBTimes Staff Reporter
The very intent of jailbreaking your iDevice is to get the most out of iOS 5. There are some pretty fabulous apps and tweaks available for Apple devices in the market.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by Vinod Yalburgi
Simultaneous Release at TheGeekKnows.com Learn Forex Trading and read exclusive EUR/USD Reviews. Good day forex traders. In the previous EUR/USD forex forecast we noted that the 1.32 region continued to put up a tough resistance. While the SMA 20 was bullish, we had yet to see any indications from the SMA 50. The Greek budget deficit crisis continued to [.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 by ltan
BMW AG, the German Bayerische Motoren Werke and the world\'s largest premium automaker, was fined by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration with $3 million civil penally as the firm postponed reporting auto-safty defects and recalling of about 338,700 cars in 2010.This is the second .
Sunday, February 12, 2012
The worst case scenario will be if the actual reading declined below 0.0% the prior reading, confirming the decrease of demand levels on products and services affected by increasing unemployment rates in UK which reached to its highest levels in 14 years, which will lead to increasing fears and pessimism that the economy might be heading towards deflation.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
The leaders of the Greek largest political parties, George Papandreou and Antonis Samaras, called on lawmakers to commit and back the new cuts suggested by the government as the nation attempts to sceure the second bailout package, as international lenders required commitment to the budget targets s.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
The EURUSD had another indecisive movement this week. The bullish phase since bounced from 1.2625 and broke above the 200-4 hour-EMA remains intact, but the bullish run has been disappointing in the last two weeks, moving in a sideways condition. The failure to test 1.3375 and movement back below 1.3200 could lead price to further [.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 by swibowo
I WAS PERFECTING MY TRADING SKILL “Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.” – Proverbs 22:29 “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Hello: Can you bend a bow of bronze? Are your arms trained for battles? [.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 by amustapha
After announcing that Greek official leaders agreed on a draft for the austerity measure needed for the country to get hold of the bailout yesterday; some thought that this annoying story is about to set a short term tentative end, unfortunately the euro finance ministers had something else to say e.
Friday, February 10, 2012
The Department of Education (DoE) said that default on student loans climbed to 7.0 percent in fiscal 2008, up from 6.7 percent in the prior fiscal year - yet another manifestation of the sluggish economy and bleak jobs market. .
Saturday, September 18, 2010 by Palash R. Ghosh
Big brother China has beaten India for the first time in the number of students to US management schools.
Friday, September 17, 2010
The share of foreign students coming to the United States has been going down every year since 2000, shows a study released by an international body comprising the developed nations of the world.
Friday, September 17, 2010
If there is one single benefit to the US due to the recession, it is that more people are studying in colleges than ever.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The recession has caused all sorts of difficulties for CFOs: falling earnings, tumbling stock prices and, occasionally, knotty negotiations with lenders.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
A cynic might say that information systems consultants shortchange their clients. They can, for example, promise more than they deliver.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Despite experiencing a good number of mergers and acquisitions over the past five years, notably Procter and Gamble's acquisition of Boston mainstay Gillette, Boston is still home to some of the most recognized MBA recruitment brands.
Tuesday, September 07, 2010 by Dan Beaudry And Susan Peppercorn
Irvine, California-based Fisker Automotive will debut the first factory-built Karma at the upcoming 2010 Paris Motor Show this October.
Friday, October 01, 2010
BMW is voluntarily recalling 350,000 cars worldwide due to a possible brake problems that the world's biggest premium carmaker said have not caused any accidents.
Friday, October 01, 2010
General Motors Co posted an annual sales gain of 10.5 percent in September amid evidence that the U.S. auto market remained stuck in a slow-moving recovery at the start of the fourth quarter.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Top automakers finally have electric cars ready to purr into dealer showrooms. Now the question is whether the charging infrastructure and electricity supply are up to the task.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Europe's luxury carmakers fear no double-dip thanks to a fresh supply of wealthy customers in emerging markets who have just earned enough money to buy their first Mercedes-Benz or Ferrari.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Italian automaker Fiat has decided to launch new products only at the end of 2011 or early 2012 due to the weakness of the market
Friday, October 01, 2010
Automakers would have to achieve sharply higher fuel economy -- between 47 and 62 miles per gallon -- by 2025 under a preliminary plan released by the Obama administration
Friday, October 01, 2010
A monthly gauge of online labor demand in the United States edged up in September from a month ago and was 16 percent above the reading from a year ago.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
U.S. private employers unexpectedly shed jobs in September, reinforcing the belief that the U.S. Federal Reserve will embark on another round of monetary policy stimulus to support the economic recovery as early as next month.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Private employers unexpectedly cut 39,000 jobs in September after adding an upwardly revised 10,000 jobs in August, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
U.S. Treasury debt prices climbed on Wednesday, pushing benchmark note yields to the lowest since January 2009, after ADP Employer Services said private payrolls unexpectedly contracted in September.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
The best part of my job is reuniting candidates with their self-confidence. In today's job market I know it is so difficult to remain positive and to not take rejection personally.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 by Samantha Nolan
Imagine sitting in a lobby waiting for an interview. You look around and all those waiting are as professional and qualified as you...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 by Rosa E. Vargas
It's an interesting dilemma for new grads these days. Assuming you're lucky enough to score a job, you'll find yourself thrown into a workforce for which you've (probably) received little or no formal training. Sadder still, you probably won't receive much on-the-job training either.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 by Emily Bennington
New research confirms that women plagued by morning sickness in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
The three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry all developed new ways to make carbon atoms stick to one another -- a mundane-sounding process that in fact underlies the very basis of life.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Health regulators plan to spend millions of dollars to step up their scientific prowess in a move that officials say will help quickly get new treatments to patients and protect the public against possible health threats.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Republicans could keep their promises to stop healthcare reform even if they cannot repeal it, simply by blocking legislation needed to pay for it, one expert argued on Wednesday.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Americans die sooner than citizens of a dozen other developed nations and the usual suspects -- obesity, traffic accidents and a high murder rate -- are not to blame, researchers reported on Thursday.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Ultra-running (as defined by any running race longer than the marathon of 26.2 miles) requires a whole different nutritional viewpoint when compared to the gels and quick shots of Gatorade normally
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
The Partnership for a Walkable America sponsored the first National Walk Our Children to School Day in Chicago in 1997. It was a simple day, designed to highlight the need to create communities that are walkable. The day was created, in part, on a similar concept celebrated in the United Kingdom.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
I battle desperately not to climb aboard Queenstown's romantic-adventure band-wagon; but I fail miserably.
Monday, September 27, 2010 by Kip Brook
After two and a half years of renovation costing $ 29 million, the five star luxury hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul Turkey opened its doors to guests.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Even as your contemporaries sail to the Caribbean to celebrate to Christmas, you take a different course.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The largest of the Seychelles archipelago, Mahe is an African island rich with hidden treasures.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
You just have wait till 2015 for a trip into the space, as US aerospace giant Boeing and Space Adventure have tied up to put tourists into low-level orbit in a futuristic capsule.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Speaking to the BBC, Dorian Harris, Managing Director of Skoosh.com said hotels would email, call and threaten legal action over his website openly offering hotel discounts.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Aerospace major Boeing announced its entry into the space tourism market in partnership with its Space Adventures, and the partnership hopes to sell seats on rocket trips to the International Space Station very soon.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Uggs Australia get a lot of grief in the fashion world, but they're undeniably comfortable and now they're more fashionable as well.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 by Carly Zinderman
Stunning actress Keira Knightley turned heads in Paris the other day while filming a sexy new ad campaign for Chanel.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise got cozy at the premiere for 'The Romantics' in New York City and we were on hand to report on Katie's latest style antics.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Those wanting to up the ante on their backyard "stay-cation" and holiday hospitality should consider Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet's extravagant outdoor kitchen, which is more like an outdoor cooking "resort." .
Monday, September 27, 2010 by Merilee Kern
Emerald Jet Charter announced that it now is offering helicopter travel along with chartering private business jets.
Monday, September 27, 2010 by James Rothaar
If you are tired of the modern looking watches then check out the latest traditional looking wristwatch from Carl F Bucherer - the new Manero ChronoPerpetual.
Friday, September 24, 2010
To commemorate the opening of his original store in New York, Ralph Lauren is redefining his vision of men's high fashion by launching an exclusive men's store in the same space.
Friday, September 24, 2010
