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Report: Microsoft and Nokia talked acquisition, but no dice
Microsoft and cellphone maker Nokia were in advanced talks about an acquisition of the Finnish company's device business, but the discussions have broken down, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Such a deal might have improved both companies' ability to compete in a world dominated by smartphones...
pcworld.com (12 minutes ago)
Aaron Sorkin: 'I Doubt HBO's Going To Be Happy With My Telling You This ...'
Aaron Sorkin ran into a few problems while working on Season 2 of "The Newsroom." The former "West Wing" mastermind revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he spent a lot of time second-guessing his work this year due to the heavy amounts of criticism that came with Season 1. "I doubt HBO's going to be happy with my...
huffingtonpost.com (16 minutes ago)
Fed economic statement drives fall on Wall Street
Ben Bernanke's optimistic comments about the outlook for the US economic has sparked a sell-off on Wall Street.
abc.net.au (19 minutes ago)
Wall Street's Taper Dance
Taper! Taper! Taper! There was the twist, the electric slide, the macarena and now, the latest craze is the taper twist. And it goes like this ...
cnbc.com (1 hour ago)
Microsoft talked with Nokia about buying devices unit: report
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp recently talked with Nokia about buying the Finnish phone maker's devices unit, but the discussions faltered and are not likely to be revived, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online edition. The Journal reported that "advanced discussions" on a deal happened as...
yahoo.com (1 hour ago)
Microsoft talked with Nokia about buying devices unit: report
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp recently talked with Nokia about buying the Finnish phone maker's devices unit, but the discussions faltered and are not likely to be revived, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online edition.
reuters.com (1 hour ago)
Report: Microsoft, Nokia started talking acquisition but stopped
Microsoft was in talks with smartphone partner Nokia about buying up its mobile devices business, according to the Wall Street Journal.
gigaom.com (1 hour ago)
Wall Street slides after Fed announcement
Financial markets shuddered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge economic stimulus program later this year and end it by the middle of 2014.
mercurynews.com (1 hour ago)
What's taper, and why it affects a 401k
Taper is the latest "it" word on Wall Street, and refers to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's toughest job yet.
cnn.com (1 hour ago)
Microsoft considered buying Nokia
MICROSOFT was in talks aimed at buying the devices business from Nokia but failed to seal a deal, the Wall Street has reported.
news.com.au (2 hours ago)
Fed's plan for the economy a surprise to many investors
NEW YORK -- Everyone on Wall Street knows that the Federal Reserve will eventually stop its $85-billion-a-month bond buyback program and see if the U.S. economy can stand on its own two feet. Though most investors want this to happen and look forward to when the economy is booming again, many worry about what could...
latimes.com (2 hours ago)
Michelle Obama and daughters visit sites of Germany's past
Michelle Obama, the US first lady, and daughters Malia and Sasha visited key sites of Germany's troubled past, walking through the Holocaust Memorial and laying flowers for those killed at the Berlin Wall.
telegraph.co.uk (2 hours ago)
The word Wall St .can't stop saying: taper
The Fed is pumping $85 billion into the economy each month, but it can't last forever. Christine Romans explains 'the taper'.
cnn.com (2 hours ago)
Microsoft Held Talks With Nokia
Microsoft was recently in advanced talks about purchasing Nokia's device business, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, but talks have faltered.
cnbc.com (2 hours ago)
WSJ: Microsoft, Nokia break off ‘advanced’ merger negotiations
Nokia’s devotion to Windows Phone is starting to make sense. Unnamed sources tell The Wall Street Journal that Microsoft and Nokia were until recently in “advanced” discussions about a possible merger, although talks between the two companies have apparently broken down. Microsoft reportedly walked away from the...
yahoo.com (2 hours ago)
Aust stocks set top open weaker
Local market set to follow Wall Street lower following US Fed statement.
businessspectator.com.au (2 hours ago)
Microsoft Was Close To A Nokia Acquisition Before Talks Broke Down Recently, WSJ Reports
Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company's decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many speculated it was the first overture for a coming acquisition. And that is apparently where things were headed, according...
techcrunch.com (3 hours ago)
Wall Street closes lower on Fed stimulus uncertainty
Dow closes 206 points lower as Federal Reserve stimulus talk spooks markets.
businessspectator.com.au (3 hours ago)
Harvard hires Xia from Morgan Stanley as chief risk officer
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Wednesday that it had hired Wall Street veteran Jake Xia as its chief risk officer to analyze and monitor investment exposure in its $30.7 billion endowment. Xia, a fixed income expert who worked at Morgan Stanley for 17 years and for a time...
yahoo.com (3 hours ago)
Harvard hires Xia from Morgan Stanley as chief risk officer
BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Wednesday that it had hired Wall Street veteran Jake Xia as its chief risk officer to analyze and monitor investment exposure in its $30.7 billion endowment.
reuters.com (3 hours ago)
Nvidia's stock jumps on license plan; Wall Street eyes Apple
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) - Shares of chipmaker Nvidia surged nearly 6 percent on Wednesday after the company said it plans to license its graphics technology, opening the door to new business with Apple, Samsung Electronics and other mobile device makers. Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun Huang told the Reuters...
yahoo.com (4 hours ago)
Nvidia's stock jumps on license plan; Wall Street eyes Apple
(Reuters) - Shares of chipmaker Nvidia surged nearly 6 percent on Wednesday after the company said it plans to license its graphics technology, opening the door to new business with Apple, Samsung Electronics and other mobile device makers.
reuters.com (4 hours ago)
Small Business Week Special: Attention Adminstrator Mills -- For Small Business Week, Maybe We...
When politicians talk about supporting small business, they usually refer to Joe the plumber, Mike the barber, or maybe even Barbara?s flower shop. They understand that when most of us think about small business, most of us think about what I refer to as the Main Street type businesses around the corner.
forbes.com (4 hours ago)
Facebook Leading Silicon Valley Brain Drain
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Make no mistake ... Mark Zuckerberg is clearly out of his league as Facebook CEO and head visionary. I was wrong about the guy (and maybe the stock, though I still think it goes irrationally higher, sort of like Netflix ). Can Zuck come back? Anything's possible, but, he needs Sheryl Sandberg...
thestreet.com (4 hours ago)
Gyula Horn, the man who tore the Iron Curtain, dies at 80
By Sandor Peto BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Gyula Horn, who as Hungary's last communist foreign minister ripped a hole in the Iron Curtain in 1989, has died at the age of 80 after long illness, the government said on Wednesday. His decisions helped trigger off tumultuous months in which European communist regimes collapsed...
yahoo.com (4 hours ago)
NSA Director Says Plot Against Wall Street Foiled
NSA director defends sweeping surveillance program, says plot against Wall Street thwarted
abcnews.com (4 hours ago)
Wall St falls after Fed statement
Lack of direction on stimulus outlook weighs on US markets.
businessspectator.com.au (4 hours ago)
Obama speech in Berlin looks to 'shared values' of iron curtain era
He did not, everyone agreed, have the rhetorical punch of his predecessors. But then again it always was going to be difficult for Barack Obama to live up to the "Ich bin ein Berliner" or "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall" lines of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Yet as the US president admitted himself,...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
FINRA reviewing brokerages' use of social media
By Ashley Lau (Reuters) - Wall Street's Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is looking at how brokerage firms supervise their use of communication outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the industry-funded regulator said. FINRA, which conducts periodic "sweeps," or targeted checks on Wall Street...
yahoo.com (5 hours ago)
David Wall: Dancer who became the Royal Ballet's Principal at the age of 21
David Wall, who has died of cancer at the age of 67, was a ballet dancer who became the youngest Principal in the history of the Royal Ballet, at the age of only 21. He had joined the company in 1963 and rose to Principal three years later. As Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's...
independent.co.uk (5 hours ago)
