WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After dismissing complaints that might have uncovered investor Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion fraud, experienced U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staffers must have a procedure in place to review tips and complaints, the SEC’s internal watchdog said on Tuesday.
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SEC told to aggressively assess tips after Madoff
Speculation about a forthcoming Apple tablet device is getting more interesting every day. Today Brad Stone of The New York Times reports that Apple has rehired Michael Tchao, one of the original …
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Apple Rehires Newton Engineer; Tablet Rumors Intensify
Vehicles powered by underground cable? Korea’s top tech institute is serious about it. For one thing, batteries would be lighter and cheaper
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Korea’s On-the-Go Electric-Car Experiment
On Tuesday, Google announced that music videos by Jay-Z, Madonna, Green Day, and other Warner Music artists will return to YouTube after a nearly year-long breakdown in negotiations between the …
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Warner Makes Nice with YouTube
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a decision on GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine for cervical cancer, according to the British drugmaker. The FDA was scheduled to announce its ruling Tuesday on whether to approve Cervarix, but a Glaxo spokeswoman said the…
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FDA delays ruling on Glaxo cervical cancer vaccine
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For Many Grads, Pay is Far From "Average"
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Archives: The Downfall of Xerox
A report showing Americans are still downbeat on the economy is giving investors reason to sell stocks. The market failed to hold on to early gains and edged lower in midday trading Tuesday after the Conference Board said its consumer confidence index fell to…
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Drop in consumer confidence sends stocks lower
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. banking regulators proposed on Tuesday that banks prepay three years of fees to help cover the rising cost of bank failures, now put at $100 billion through 2013.
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FDIC wants banks to prepay fees to meet failure costs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday proposed tough new credit card rules to protect consumers from potentially costly practices by lenders and moved to implement legislation enacted in May.
Home prices rose for the third month in a row in July, new data Tuesday showed, more proof a fragile housing recover is underway. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 major cities rose 1.2 percent from June to a reading of 143.05. Though…
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Index shows home prices rose for 3rd month in July
A national gambling task force is recommending that the nation’s colleges and universities take more steps to curb problem gambling by students by treating the issue as a health concern. The Task Force on College Gambling Policies says in a report released…
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Task force to colleges: Treat betting like booze
YouTube says music videos from Warner Music Group Corp. will return to the video site in the coming months after a nine-month dispute over deal terms. Most of the catalog of videos from artists such as Madonna, Metallica and Green Day will be available for…
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YouTube says Warner Music videos back in months
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine says he can’t think of any reason he would stop the execution of Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad. Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 killing spree that left 10 dead in the nation’s…
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Va. gov: No reason to stop sniper execution
PARIS (Reuters) – Another dip in expected deliveries of Airbus’s A380 superjumbo knocked shares in parent company EADS on Tuesday, reminding investors of the challenges still facing Europe’s largest industrial venture.
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EADS shares stumble as Airbus trims A380 goal