Selena's dad: Mixed feelings about fans marking star's death Twenty years after Selena's murder, the Latin world will remember "The Queen of Tejano" with concerts, lookalike contests, dances and a massive festival. But her father has mixed feelings about the celebrations. More
Feds in NYC: Hackers Stole $45M in ATM Card Breach A gang of cyber-criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday. More
Most Visited Cities In The World 2012 In the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index, London leads the world as both the most popular destination city for overseas travelers, and in the average amount each visitor spends. Whether drawn by business or as tourists, London's visitors from New York are the ones that travel the furthest and spend the most. More
iTunes celebrates a decade, faces new challenges When Apple launched its iTunes music store a decade ago amid the ashes of Napster, the music industry - reeling from the effects of online piracy - was anxious to see how the new music service would shake out.... More
Six politicians plead not guilty in alleged NYC mayor's race plot New York State Sen. Malcolm Smith and five other politicians pleaded not guilty Tuesday to corruption charges in connection with an alleged plot to buy a line on New York City's mayoral ballot. The allegations revived public concerns about a documented culture of exploitation in Albany that has prompted officials to seek legal recourse to induce change. More
Wall Street Has Abandoned Wall Street ON WALL STREET—America’s biggest bank is calling it quits on the street where American finance was born. 04/19/2024 - 11:31 pm | View Link
Wall Street Ends the Week in a ‘Tech Wreck’ The S&P 500 closed down 0.9%, dropping for the third straight week and leaving it more than 5% below its closing high at the end of March. The Nasdaq 100 meanwhile declined 2.1%, recording its deepest ... 04/19/2024 - 11:05 am | View Link
Netflix is undergoing a tech ‘rite of passage,’ and Wall Street doesn’t like it Other technology companies have pulled back on financial disclosures as they’ve grown, and now Netflix will do the same. 04/19/2024 - 2:15 am | View Link
IMF chief quotes Churchill as she warns of global chaos Sales of battery-powered cars dropped by 11.3pc as demand in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, plunged by 28.9pc. The market share for EVs shrank from 13.9pc in March last year to 13pc in the same ... 04/18/2024 - 7:49 am | View Link
Wall Street says a Wall Street revival is finally here Wall Street is surging again. This time, bank executives say it’s for real. Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs (GS), Citigroup (C), Morgan Stanley (MS), and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) all reported first ... 04/16/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial District, and lasted for fifty-nine days—from September 17 to November 15, 2011. 04/18/2024 - 3:02 pm | View Website
Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think But perhaps Occupy Wall Street’s most seismic and discernible impact has been on politics itself—shifting the window of what is deemed politically acceptable discourse and pulling the nation ... 04/18/2024 - 7:10 am | View Website
‘We showed it was possible to create a movement from almost nothing ... 17 September To mark the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, hundreds of protesters return to Zuccotti Park. Despite the much smaller numbers involved, nearly 200 people are arrested. 04/17/2024 - 9:09 pm | View Website
Wall Street heads into the week ahead on edge as traders brace for a ... Wall Street heads into the week ahead on edge as traders brace for a raft of earnings, economic data. How corporate America is handling sticky inflation, as well as the prospect of higher interest ... 04/17/2024 - 7:21 pm | View Website
Occupy Wall Street Changed Everything In Occupy Wall Street, people found the class cleavage — and the willingness to name culprits at the top — that Obama had shied away from. But in response, as Michelle Crentsil noted, the ... 04/17/2024 - 4:29 pm | View Website
During a Supreme Court hearing on Idaho abortion law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and Justice Samuel Alito clashed over fetal protections under federal law EMTALA. Prelogar argues women deserve necessary medical care, challenging Alito's focus on "unborn child" protections.