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Rogue UBS Trader Loses $2B
(Newser) - A rogue trader at UBS has lost around $2 billion, the Swiss banking giant says. The unauthorized trades by a trader in its investment banking unit "could lead UBS to report a loss for the third quarter of 2011," but "no client positions were affected," the... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Mysterious Light Dazzles Southwest
(Newser) - A mysterious blue-green streak of light was spotted moving across the sky over the US Southwest Wednesday night, prompting a flood of 911 calls from Phoenix to Los Angeles, CNN reports. There were no reports of impact or damage and NASA says it believes the object was probably a fireball... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Facebook Delays Going Public
(Newser) - Facebook has pushed back its stock market debut—expected to be one of the biggest in history—until late next year at the earliest. The social media giant's initial public offering had been expected by April 2012 at the latest, with some predicting it would go public by the... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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FBI Confirms Probe of Mass Celebrity Hacking
(Newser) - The FBI said today it is indeed on the case of an alleged mass hacking of celebrity cell phones, reports the Los Angeles Times . The confirmation comes after TMZ reported that Scarlett Johansson enlisted the agency's help after nude photos said to be of her showed up on websites... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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App Lets Strangers Use Your Bathroom
(Newser) - Apps continue to break new ground: The soon-to-launch CLOO' (a combination of community and loo) envisions a social potty network. Let's say you're in some city and need to use the bathroom. The app gives you a list of registered "hosts" who would let you stop by... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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Walmart Pledges Billions for Women Businesses
(Newser) - Walmart may have some serious image problems in how it treats women, but the business behemoth is throwing around some serious money that could help change that. Under a new initiative announced today, it pledges to spend $20 billion over the next five years to buy products from women-owned businesses... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Disabled Vet Gets $15M for Exposing Medicaid Fraud
(Newser) - A case of Medicaid fraud with the perfect ending: A 63-year-old disabled vet in New Jersey is $15 million richer because he figured out that his health care provider was cooking the books, reports the New York Post . Robert West got suspicious when he went to the dentist and was... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, .
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Warming Oceans Could Spread Bacteria
(Newser) - Global warming could make you sick—literally. As the oceans get warmer, they're also proving a more hospitable home for Vibrio bacteria, helping to spread it around the world, according to a paper presented yesterday in Brussels. Scientists warned that, left unchecked, the phenomenon could lead to millions of... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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NASA Reveals Massive Mars Rocket Plans
(Newser) - NASA today unveiled plans for a rocket that will power the next generation of space exploration, designed to take manned missions to distant asteroids and eventually Mars, Space.com reports. The uncreatively named “Space Launch System,” or SLS, uses bits of technology from the defunct space shuttle and... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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West Virginia Town Full of Those Sickened by WiFi
(Newser) - Most Americans hate being out of range of a cell phone tower, but not the residents of Green Bank, West Virginia. A growing number of Americans are moving to this mountain town, population 143, specifically because cell phones and WiFi signals are banned there, lest they interfere with the gigantic... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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News Corp. Sued for US Hacking—By Shareholders
(Newser) - Seems like there's no news but bad news for Rupert Murdoch these days: The latest legal salvo against the News Corp empire is a lawsuit alleging that its board knew for more than a decade that some of its US subsidiaries were engaged in illegal hacking, this time in... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Look Out, iPad: Windows 8 a Contender
(Newser) - Microsoft has skirted the problem it ran into three years ago, when its preview of Windows 7 was leaked to the general public, by "leaking" Windows 8—which will ultimately power PCs and iPad-rivaling tablets—itself. The preview of the operating system, first aired at a conference yesterday, was... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Detroit Woman, 101, Evicted From Home of 58 Years
(Newser) - A particularly sad foreclosure story out of Detroit: Texana Hollis has been evicted from her home of the past 58 years ... at the age of 101. As if that's not depressing enough, Hollis and her late husband owned the home outright—but in 2003, Hollis' son persuaded her to... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Deadly TB Coursing Through Europe
(Newser) - Ominous news from WHO: Incredibly drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis are coursing through Europe, and will kill tens of thousands unless health officials intervene. WHO's regional director blamed the resurgence on complacency, noted that the disease "is evolving with a vengeance," and announced the creation of a plan... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Obama Rushed Solyndra Loan
(Newser) - The White House pressed the Office of Budget and Management to speed up its approval of a $535 million loan to now-bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra, so that Joe Biden could announce it at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company’s new factory, according to emails that Republican congressional... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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