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Madoff assaulted by another inmate in December: report

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 2 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff, the swindler who orchestrated a multibillion dollar fraud, was attacked by another inmate at the federal prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. ...

US woman held in Ireland in plot to kill cartoonist

AFP Global Edition 7 days ago

A second American Muslim woman has been arrested in Ireland on charges of conspiracy to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed, The Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper identified the woman as Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, who worked ...

L.A. Times sells Disney front page for movie ad

Reuters US Online Report Top News 15 days ago

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times' critic may have panned the film, but that didn't stop Disney from paying top dollar to turn the newspaper's front page into a special advertisement on Friday for the new movie, "Alice in Wonderland." ...

Facebook CEO in no rush for IPO

Reuters US Online Report Internet News 16 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is in no rush to take the popular social-networking site public, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The 25-year-old CEO told the Journal in an interview that the company would eventually launch ...

US Justice Department probing euro attacks: report

AFP American Edition 17 days ago

The US Department of Justice has become the latest government watchdog to probe allegations that traders have used the Greek debt crisis to collude in attacks on the euro. The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported that at least four hedge funds ...

Government to spend $25 billion to improve Internet access

Reuters US Online Report Internet News 17 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission's plan to boost Americans' access to the Internet will propose up to $25 billion in new federal spending, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The FCC's National Broadband Plan is set to be ...

Dow Jones buys Hearst half of SmartMoney

AFP American Edition 18 days ago

News Corp.'s Dow Jones announced Tuesday that it had bought partner Hearst Corp.'s half of personal finance magazine SmartMoney. The move gives Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, 100 percent control over the SmartMoney franchise, which includes SmartMoney magazine, Smartmoney.com ...

Twitter to raise $100 mln in new funding: WSJ

AFP Global Edition 23 days ago

<div><p>Twitter is close to raising up to 100 million dollars in new funding in a deal which values the hot micro-blogging service at one billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.</p><p>The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the deal," said the new ...

Mandelson 'concerned' by firms' foreign control: WSJ

AFP European Edition 23 days ago

<div><p>Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has voiced concern about foreign ownership of British manufacturing, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday following a series of recent takeovers.</p><p>"I am keeping a weather eye on this area because I have started to become concerned that ...

Stanford U. looking to sell $1 billion in assets: report

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 23 days ago

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stanford University is looking to sell as much as $1 billion worth of investments including private equity investments, real estate and timberlands, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.</p><p>The university, which lost about ...

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