Woodland Homeless Man Brutally Stabbed
Source: Sacramento News
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-05 16:05:09 -0700 | business-news
Sunday 5th May, 2013 A 23-year-old Rancho Cordova man apparently drowned while swimming in the American River near Lake Natoma on Saturday evening, officials said. Christopher Harris went into the water without a life jacket about 5:25 p.m., attempting to...
Snapshots of an Ailing Syrian Economy
Source: Epoch Times
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-05 07:02:35 -0700 | business-news
You may also like The effects of the civil war that has plagued Syria for more than two years are seen in the number of dead (estimated at more than 70,000), in the number of refugees (more than one million),...
Search party to be organized for missing Roseville woman
Source: Sacramento News
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-05 02:32:21 -0700 | business-news
Sunday 5th May, 2013 Hot weather in the Sacramento region will be replaced by milder conditions.Saturday's high temperature hit 90 degrees at Sacramento Executive Airport, but the region will see a "gradual decline in temperatures for the next several days,"...
'Syrian Hackers' Take Over E! Online Twitter, Tweet Fake Headline About Justin Bieber
Source: BusinessInsider
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 01:57:25 -0700 | business-news
The pro-Assad hacking group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) appear to have taken over the Twitter account of E! Online , using it to tweet a fake headline that said Justin Bieber had come out as gay. The hack comes after...
Twitter's Solution To Being Hacked: Expect More Of The Same
Source: Forbes
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-02 12:18:51 -0700 | business-news
When the Associated Press's Twitter account was hacked, it created a furor. Twitter has firmly resolved thatWe should come to expect more of this. Cyberattacks have been all over the news over the last several weeks. The hijacking of A.P.'s...
The "Twitter Crash" is "Flash Crash" Redux
Source: Forbes
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-05-01 10:56:34 -0700 | business-news
It seems like anyone can access a high-profile Twitter account and move markets. This includes short sellers, disgruntled employees, competitors, as well as foreign hostiles...The potential for social media to do harm to investors became apparent last week, after a...
US dollar eases on US poor Q1 growth data
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-04-26 16:48:04 -0700 | business-news
THE US dollar has slipped back against the euro, after a weaker-than-expected US first quarter growth estimate and as fears eased of military escalation over Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons. Meanwhile, the yen pushed higher after the Bank of...
Oil part of Syria's problem, expert says
Source: United Press International
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-04-26 06:46:29 -0700 | business-news
The lack of a vibrant oil sector in Syria is part of the reason there are so many refugees in the region, Syrian expert Joshua Landis said. "Oil is the only thing that Syria has going for it," Landis, a...
Social Media Opens Up New Issues for Investors
Source: The Motley Fool
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-04-24 08:17:53 -0700 | business-news
Yesterday, the Dow Jones dropped 143 points after the Associated Press Twitter account posted a tweet saying that the White House had been bombed and the president injured. Everything in D.C. was actually fine, but there was something amiss on Twitter....
Twitter Hoax Sparks Swift Stock Swoon
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-04-24 18:49:16 -0700 | business-news
A short-lived hoax on Twitter briefly erased $200 billion of value from U.S. stock markets on Tuesday, underscoring the vulnerability of financial markets to computerized trading programs that buy and sell shares without human intervention. A tweet purportedly from the...
Russia furious over Syrian oil nod from EU
Source: United Press International
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-04-23 08:40:32 -0700 | business-news
The EU decision to ease oil sanctions on Syria in support of the opposition is counterproductive, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said. The Council of the European Union announced Monday that it was authorizing oil imports and related investments...
Syrian Exports Are Almost Nonexistent
Source: BusinessInsider
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-04-07 13:27:07 -0700 | business-news
Syria suffered in 2012 an unprecedented decline in foreign trade, with exports falling by nearly 100 percent from a year earlier, according to an official study published in a newspaper on Sunday. The study, published in pro-regime daily Al-Watan, showed...
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Obama's Sequester Fearmongering Caused Hiring Slowdown
Source: Newsbusters
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-04-07 12:36:37 -0700 | business-news
Jim Cramer made a statement on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that likely shocked the host as well as the other liberal media members involved in the discussion. After David Gregory mentioned Friday's lousy unemployment report, Cramer said, This is...
Vote: Pause or correction in the stock market? | Jon Talton
Source: Seattle Times
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-04-05 10:11:32 -0700 | business-news
Analysis and commentary on economic news, trends and issues, with an emphasis on Seattle and the Northwest. April 5, 2013 at 10:00 AM Vote: Pause or correction in the stock market? Posted by Jon Talton Today's disappointing jobs report shouldn't...
Fuel smuggling from Syria could hit revenues
Source: The Daily Star
Aleppo :: Syria | updated 2013-04-03 15:41:38 -0700 | business-news
The Daily Star A picture taken from the Lebanese border in the area of Wadi Khaled shows a Syrian Army camp on the Lebanese-Syrian border northern Lebanon on February 25, 2012. Up to a million liters of smuggled low-quality gasoline...
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