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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

AP Top Business News  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 09:10 AM EST   [*New!*]

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials....

APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight

AP Top Business News  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:54 AM EST   [*New!*]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending....

Mugabe Seeks Zimbabwe Edge by Pressing for Black Ownership

NYT World Business  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:27 AM EST

President Robert G. Mugabe has begun pressuring companies operating in the country to comply with a law requiring that black Zimbabweans own more than half their shares.

From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz

NYT Business  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:13 AM EST

Research shows that more than half of office workers are dissatisfied with the level of “speech privacy” in their offices, and managers are hearing their complaints.

The end of fish, in one chart

Washington Post - Business  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:00 AM EST

Want to see how severely we humans are scouring the oceans for fish? Check out this striking map from the World Wildlife Fund’s 2012 “Living Planet Report.” The red areas are the most intensively fished (and, in many cases, overfished ) parts of the ocean — and they’ve expanded dramatically since 1950: Read full article >>

Is There a Libertarian Case for Organized Labor

Reason Magazine - Topics > Economics  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 08:00 AM EST

Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution, and may have beneficial functions under existing conditions. . . .” If you guessed some wily labor leader or social democrat, you are wrong. British laissez-faire advocate Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) wrote those words in his  Principles of Sociology (1896).  Spencer was the most prominent and respected individualist philosopher of his time. To this day his voluminous scholarly and popular writing remains an important resource for adherents of the freedom philosophy. Spencer’s statement, then, may surprise some readers. It shouldn’t. Our libertarian forebears put the plight of workers at the top of their concerns. In England feudalism had not entirely disappeared, many people had been pushed off the...

In Facebook Stock Rush, Fanfare vs. Realities

NYT World Business  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 07:37 AM EST

The small gain for Facebook’s stock on its first day of trading suggests that many professional money managers viewed all the hype as just that.

Most Expensive Homes in the US

ABC News: Money  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 06:47 AM EST

Despite recent dreary forecasts for the U.S. housing market, a handful of wealthy Americans are still shelling out the big bucks for lavish homes. From New York to California, country mansion to penthouse suite, these collosal homes are fit for royals. Here is a look inside the seven most expensive homes in America.

Day after historic IPO, Facebook's Zuckerberg weds

Seattle Times: Business & Technology  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 06:01 AM EST

For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week - from birthday, to IPO, to I DO.

Character Study: James Crockman, the Human Antenna of the Breaking News Network

NYT Business  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 03:40 AM EST

James Crockman listens to 17 police and fire frequencies from Breaking News Network’s New Jersey office to cull spot items for subscribers like news media outlets.

Letters: Letters: Logic and the Mandate

NYT Business  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 03:40 AM EST

Readers respond to “Slippery-Slope Logic, Applied to Health Care” (Economic View, May 13).

Discord at JPMorgan Investment Office Blamed in Huge Loss

NYT World Business  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 02:04 AM EST

Trans-Atlantic tension in JPMorgan Chase’s chief investment office contributed to the unit’s giant losing trades, current and former bankers said.

Get Motivated! seminars a smoke screen for sales pitch

Seattle Times: Business & Technology  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 02:01 AM EST

What's billed as a chance to hear upbeat lectures from famous people like former Secretary of State Colin Powell is actually a vehicle for companies to sell investing tactics, with the implicit promise of high returns.

Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix

AP Top Business News  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 01:29 AM EST

CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge....

Working hard to live within her means

Seattle Times: Business & Technology  | Links  | Related | May 20, 2012 01:01 AM EST

A single mom who makes a living helping others gets some much-needed help from a financial planner who takes aim at her debt and attitude toward money.