Just a week after the Greek Ministry of Justice Web site was defaced by Anonymous in a protest against the signing of the controversial ACTA treaty by the Greek government, the online activist group has reportedly taken down a number of Greece government run Web sites in response to the people powered uprising in Athens.
Gautam Gambhir's 92 at the top and some smart batting by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the finish helped India chase down a 270-run target against Australia in Adelaide on Sunday for their second win in the triangular series.
The S&P posted its biggest percentage decline so far in 2012 on Friday after an about-face on Greece's long-awaited debt deal ended a five-week streak of gains for equities.
AllianceBernstein LP , a New York-based money manager controlled by French insurer AXA , said on Friday that net revenue fell 20 percent in the fourth quarter as clients continued to pull money from its stock funds.
The BSE Sensex closed down 0.46 percent on Friday, reversing early gains, after data showed the country's industrial output in December slowed sharply and Morgan Stanley cut its allocation for emerging market stocks.
Global miner Rio Tinto reported a 6 percent fall in second-half profit on Thursday, before $9.3 billion in writedowns mainly on its aluminum business, but appeased investors with a massive dividend hike.
China's stock market improvement could be jeopardized by a higher than expected inflation reading for January.
German exports fell at their fastest rate in nearly three years in December and imports unexpectedly dropped, adding to signs that the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis hit the region's top economy hard in the fourth quarter.
German exports fell at their fastest rate in nearly three years in December and imports unexpectedly dropped, adding to signs that the euro zone sovereign debt crisis hit the region's top economy hard in the fourth quarter.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 7 - Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock and three other board directors will step down as the struggling Internet company keeps up discussions on overhauling its prized Asian assets, including stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan .
Stocks rose slightly on Tuesday, but with the outcome of discussions on a bailout package for Greece uncertain, investors are unlikely to make big bets in coming days.
Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International Inc said it expects sales at its defense and space business to fall by 4 percent to 5 percent this year as the United States pares back its military spending.
Markets edged down on Tuesday as Greek resistance to the strict conditions attached to a bailout fund sapped recent momentum spurred by hopes the global economy is improving, and the euro eased on renewed fears of a messy debt default.
BTJunkie, one of the largest Bit Torrent search engines, announced Monday that it would voluntarily be shutting down its website. The decision came less than three weeks after federal prosecutors cracked down on popular file-sharing Website Megaupload, for copyright infringement.
Facing increasing federal and international pressure to moderate copyright infringment, the website BTJunkie chose to voluntarily end operations of its trackers and search functions Monday morning.
Ron Paul won't be speaking at CPAC 2012, despite winning the straw poll at the Republican Party's biggest annual gathering for the past two years.
