By Los Angeles Times, New York Times It reads like a riveting sci-fi novel, but it’s stunningly real: A super-sophisticated malicious computer virus burrowed its way into Iran’s nuclear facilities and took down several parts of the operation. Oh, and it apparently came from us. In 2010, it was the ...
The folks on Wall Street appear to be tightening the purse strings. A new report finds that year-end bonuses for Wall Street workers are expected to fall by an average of 20 to 30 percent this year, as compared to last year. Blame the sluggish economy and the topsy-turvy markets. ...
Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta will surrender to the FBI on Wednesday to face criminal charges related to an ongoing insider trading investigation, sources close to the case told The New York Times and Reuters. Only on msnbc.com Super-social gene may hold clues to autism, other ...
By Julie Zeveloff, Business Insider The New York Times just published an in-depth review of Kohler’s Numi toilet, a $6,400 contraption that is basically a cross between a potty and a butler. The toilet, which costs 81 times the amount of your standard Home Depot toilet, has a touch-screen remote ...
A prosecutor’s urology examination will only cause about $995,000 worth of pain — now, cough On October 5, 2011, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced the simultaneous filing of a Complaint and a settlement of the charges in a civil health care fraud lawsuit against : Dr. Goluboff is a ...
It’s a brand new quarter, but it’s the same old story on Wall Street. Stocks closed the first trading day of the fourth quarter down across the board on Monday, as Greek debt worries outweighed a relatively upbeat report on U.S. manufacturing. According to preliminary calculations the Dow fell258.53 points, ...
September 14, 2011, 9:36 am By ANN CARRNS A variety of consumer-focused articles appears daily in The New York Times and online in our blogs. Each weekday morning, we gather them together here so you can quickly scan the news that could hit you in your wallet. Poverty soars in ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Carl Icahn has offered to take Clorox private in a $12.6 billion deal, the activist investor disclosed Friday. Under the terms of the offer, Clorox shareholders would receive $76.50 per share in cash, according to a regulatory filing. In a letter sent Thursday to Clorox (CLX, ...
April 28, 2011, 10:24 amBy ANN CARRNS A variety of consumer-focused articles appears daily in The New York Times and online in our blogs. Each weekday morning, we gather them together here so you can quickly scan the news that could hit your wallet. All eyes are on Florida’s Medicaid ...
NEW YORK — A surge in oil and the threat of a government shutdown weighed on stocks Friday. Investors kept one eye on Washington, where Republicans and Democrats were in the final day of talks to reach a budget agreement. Without a deal, the federal government is expected to stop all ...
By Charles Riley, staff reporterFebruary 21, 2011: 6:12 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Bankrupt home video chain Blockbuster put itself up for sale Monday, saying it has received an offer of $290 million dollars for the business. Blockbuster said it filed a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New ...
February 21, 2011, 10:34 amBy RON LIEBER A variety of consumer-focused articles appears daily in The New York Times and online in our blogs. Each weekday morning, we gather them together here so you can quickly scan the news that could hit your wallet. Health insurance advice from a former ...
January 27, 2011, 10:49 amBy JENNIFER SARANOW SCHULTZ A variety of consumer-focused articles appears daily in The New York Times and online in our blogs. Each weekday morning, we gather them together here so you can quickly scan the news that could hit your wallet. A guide to free and ...
If you don’t think green is big business, consider that clean-energy capital investments globally are on track to grow by 25% to $200 billion in 2010, according to the research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. But can individual investors actually make money from the movement? In fact, green stocks are ...
By CNN Wire StaffDecember 13, 2010: 6:20 PM ET NEW YORK (CNN) — Convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff will not attend the funeral of his son, Mark, out of consideration for his daughter-in-law and grandchildren, attorney Ira Sorkin said. Mark Madoff’s body was discovered hanging from a ceiling pipe in his ...
November 16, 2010, 10:22 amBy JENNIFER SARANOW SCHULTZ A variety of consumer-focused articles appears daily in The New York Times and online in our blogs. Each weekday morning, we gather them together here so you can quickly scan the news that could hit your wallet. A look at the growing ...
In a recent New York Times article, “Debt Collectors Face a Hazard: Writer’s Cramp,” David Segal detailed how debt buyers had been using an assembly-line approach to financial paperwork well before the recent foreclosure mess and how the debt buyers often end up pursuing the wrong person. If you happen ...
