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The Guardian Ireland angered by S&P downgrade Financial Times Ireland on Wednesday criticised Standard & Poor's after the credit rating agency cut the country's long-term credit rating, causing Irish gover...

The last bastion of Applephone exclusivity in Europe is about to be toppled, according to the Wall Street Journal , as Deutsche Telekom is said to be preparing for the loss of its iPhone 4 monopoly ahead of this year's holiday shopping season. ...

Well here's an interesting wrinkle to the next-gen iOS-based Apple TV rumors in the leadup to tomorrow's event : Bloomberg Businessweek says the new box will offer Netflix streaming, presumably in addition to whatever cheap TV content dea...

This is the sixth in a series of articles covering “unpopular” larger companies.  Benjamin Graham believed that such companies may present opportunities for enterprising investors.  We discussed the Graham approach in more detail i...

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can e...

JP Morgan to Close Proprietary-Trading Operations Wall Street Journal NEW YORK—JP Morgan Chase & Co. is winding down its proprietary-trading operations and has given notice to its roughly 20 proprietary-commodities traders...

Apple is likely introducing a family of new iPods (and maybe a revamped Apple TV) today at its annual music event in San Francisco. Scroll down or click for the live blog updates . Additional coverage of Apple’s event on Wired.com...

It's Amazon vs. Apple, according to the latest reports, with Netflix in the middle Tuesday was busy day as two of the biggest names in online retail -- Apple ( AAPL ) and Amazon ( AMZN ) -- jockeyed for position in the fast-evolving market fo...

Back on August 27, the Wall Street Journal reported that intrusion detection software provider ArcSight (ARST) had put itself up for sale, asserting that the company could be sold for as much as $1.5 billion, and listing Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), EMC (EMC), IBM (IBM), Oracle (ORCL) and CA (CA) as possible [...]

In the start of a potentially world-changing trend, corporations are beginning to buy Apple's iPads and develop applications for them. In doing so, the companies are breaking free from the vice-grip lock that Microsoft and Intel have had on the...

There hasn't been much news about Rupert Murdoch's forthcoming tablet and mobile phone "newspaper" since The L.A. Times reported on it in mid-August. But Buried in the last graph of Shira Ovide's piece in the Wall Street Journal today , abou...

The WSJ asked Anwar Ibrahim, Bernard Lewis, Ed Husain, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Tawfik Hamid and Akbar Ahmed to reflect on the nature that ever-elusive unicorn, moderate Islam."A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam?," from the Wall Street Journal, September 1 (thanks to all who sent this in): Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's opposition...

Paul Revere Was Very Shrill Too by digby I'm still eagerly awaiting Markos's new book "American Taliban" in the mail so I can't tell you much about it. But reviews are coming in and this nice earnest finger wag from Jamelle Bouie in the Ameri...

The Microsoft Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email . MSFT Down As Market Gets A Respite Americans' confidence in the economy improved slightly in August. That should be short lived. Share...

Dionne Searcey / Wall Street Journal : Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents   —  A firm run by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and 9 other companies alleging they are violating patents developed at a Silicon Valley lab Mr. Allen financed more than a decade ago.

Developing... this will be updated as the morning progresses. ASIA: Rose moderately, but China was hit by bank concerns. Markets appear to have cheered yesterday's U.S. rally. Techs outperformed while there was weakness in Chinese ...

The “lax” is clearly a tad inflammatory, but tweaks in Basel III rules to allow dubious quality items like mortgage servicing rights as Tier I capital speak volumes. In addition, the various noises from policy makers makes clear that the...

There's a division on the right over Obama's speech that breaks down roughly as--it was great for an Obama speech (the pro-camp), or it was an Obama speech (the anti-camp). We're in the latter camp, as you can see in this morning's...

Apple announced that it will be streaming an event online today at Apple.com, at 10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern. "Apple will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based o...

According to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, Sprint's board of directors is trying to decide the best course of action for its future with respect to their WiMax network. Sprint and Clearwire are together building out a nationwide WiMax 4G...