Spiller av lørdag 4. august 2012

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4th of August 2012 News

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The Week’s Business News in Pictures

Date: 04 August 2012

Apple took Samsung to court in a patent case with broad implications for technology innovations, and a brokerage firm’s costly software malfunction cast further doubt on high-frequency trading.

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Tea Party Holding Firm for Round 2

Date: 05 August 2012

By Albert R. Hunt | Bloomberg News

Albert Hunt

Despite a lack of substantive achievements since Tea Party candidates were voted into the House of Representatives in 2010, the group is seeking to expand its influence in the November elections.

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Reading the Fake Reuters Reports on Syria

Date: 04 August 2012

By Robert Mackey

Robert Mackey

Two fake news reports posted on Reuters.com on Friday claimed that Syrian rebels had withdrawn from the city of Aleppo.

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Why I Decided Against a Career in Journalism

Date: 05 August 2012

A young reader explains his decision not to pursue a journalism career.

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Internet Pirates Will Always Win

Date: 04 August 2012

By Nick Bilton

Nick Bilton

BitTorrent sites are always one step ahead of the media companies.

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Hacked Reuters Twitter Feed Used to Spread Disinformation About Syrian Rebels

Date: 05 August 2012

By Robert Mackey

Robert Mackey

As the battle for Aleppo goes on in the real world, supporters of the Syrian government continued a campaign to spread misinformation about the insurgency online by seizing control of a Reuters Twitter feed and posting fabricated reports.

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The British Gift to American Letters

Date: 04 August 2012

By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Fleet Street refugees supply an antidote to United States journalism and its cult of balance and suffocating respectability.

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Pollsters Struggle to Pin Down the Right (Cell) Number

Date: 05 August 2012

By John Harwood

John Harwood

Analysts are tweaking methods to better include the views of voters who only have cellphones: some hang up on those who also have landlines, others turn to the Internet.

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48 Captives Are Iran ‘Thugs,’ Say Rebels in Syria

Date: 05 August 2012

By Damien Cave and Hwaida Saad

Damien Cave

As fighting continued throughout Syria, the rebels insisted that their hostages were members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, not religious pilgrims.

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Two Central Banks and the Sound of Silence

Date: 04 August 2012

By Jeff Sommer

Jeff Sommer

Inaction by both the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank last week had far different effects on the markets.

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