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This Monday the Steps of City Hall New York staged the protest of hundred of cab drivers opposing the bill proposed by Mayor Bloomberg in Albany. The bill aims at the allowing livery car drivers to pick up passengers in certain parts of New York City, which is currently only legal for yellow cabs.

The musical concert Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway will play its last performance on September 4, ending its one-year-long show of an extended Beatles concert.

To protest against public-sector budget cuts, a 24 hour labor strike will occur on June 30 across Great Britain.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has released a request for Information (RFI) to solicit ideas and information to support its 100 Year Starship Study program.

NATO admitted on Sunday that it had accidentally bombed a residential neighborhood in Libya, killing at least 9 men, women and children.

Facebook's announcement of an Apple iPad 2 app launch stirred excitement among both sides along with signaling an end to some disagreements the two companies experienced in the past. That was the case until rumors of a secret Facebook project codenamed Spartan emerged with details on how the social network giant will utilize HTML 5 web platform standards onto mobile apps currently stationed on Apple's app store and Safari browsers.

Social networking site Facebook lost a significant number of its users in the US in May, raising fears over the site’s user base reaching saturation levels in the country.

US Department of Energy will offer a conditional guarantee as part of a $150 million loan to 1366 Technologies Inc for the development of a multicrystalline wafer manufacturing project.

American carmaker General Motors plans to invest $32 million in its Spring Hill plant and $33 million in Tonawanda Powertrain plant that will help together create or retain 163 jobs in the United States.

Sporting a monster sized screen with high definition capabilities, dual processor, very thin size, and Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS, Google's Nexus 4G could give Apple's iPhone 5 some heavy competition as both devices are set to have similar release dates.

Prince William with his new bride Catherine will tour Canada followed by a Hollywood weekend, the royal couple will first land in Canada to begin their 11 days North American tour.

Japanese car major Toyota Motors today said that it expects North American vehicle production levels to return to 100 percent in September. Production is recovering earlier than originally anticipated following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Yesterday, a highly valued client of ours posed this question to us: ”Do you think that we are headed towards a depression?” It is not clear to me what event triggered the question, but my answer was a resounding “No”.

Britain will endure at least another three years of economic weakness before it can stabilize, warned the governor of the bank of England, Sir Mervyn King.

The chief of NATO said that European members of the alliance need to increase their defense spending and reduce their reliance on the US for sophisticated weapons.

Illinois based computer hardware and software supplier, in a poll conducted last month, confirmed that nearly 28 percent of all US organizations are using cloud computing and another 73 percent reported that their first access to cloud was through a single cloud application

An online field study research shows that people watch political content more than they watch and share advertising or brand content.

There's still no app for good old-fashioned common sense, that is something no one in business can afford to be without, says Michael Feuer, cofounder and former CEO of OfficeMax and author of the new book The Benevolent Dictator: Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition.

US auto major Ford Motors will invest €812 million, or $1.2 billion, for its plant in the Valencia region of eastern Spain.

Ron Johnson was a MVP for Apple and will not be an easy guy for the company to replace.

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke t the Annual Conference of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Washington, D.C. June 14, 2011