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• TD Ameritrade's Investor Movement Index dropped 39% in three months. 
• Retail investor bullishness was up as President Donald Trump took office. 
• The supposed “Trump spike” in retail investor bullishness has since then collapsed.

Previously super-enthusiastic retail investors don’t like what they’ve been seeing in the stock market since January. That’s clear from TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index, which dropped another 12% in March... Читать дальше...

Merkel now talks of protecting Ukraine’s interests as Russia’s $12 billion gas pipeline seeks to bypass Kiev.

The former Cubs outfielder had his bail set at $175,000 as a result of a prior domestic violence-related conviction.

Mount Pleasant, IA - April 10, 2018 - The Iowa Wesleyan University Athletic Department is excited to announce the finalists for the student athlete awards that will be presented at the Athletic Hall of Fame and Athletic Awards Ceremony on Friday, April 27th, 2018. The awards that will be presented this year include Male and Female Athlete of the Year, Male and Female Scholar Athlete of the Year, and the Tiger Service Award.

Stocks jumped Tuesday after Chinese President Xi Jinping said Beijing would reduce tariffs on imported cars and improve intellectual property protection, steps that could ease trade tensions. Facebook climbed as CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate about the company's privacy scandal. On Tuesday: The S&P 500 index climbed 43.71 points, or 1.7 percent, to 2,656.87. The Dow jumped 428.90 points, or 1.8 percent, to 24,408. The Nasdaq composite rallied 143.96 points, or 2.1 percent, to... Читать дальше...

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — The aunt of a Virginia man fatally shot by police says the shooting was unjustified. Sarah Lipscomb told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Danville police showed her and other family members video of the shooting early Sunday. Lipscomb says her nephew, 25-year-old Juan (Ju-AHN) Markee Jones, was unarmed and was turning to raise his hands when police shot him. She says three shots can be heard. Police have said Jones, who is black, fled from officers responding to a reported domestic assault. Читать дальше...

Emmanuel Macron has blurred a line that has kept French government free of religious intervention for generations, critics said on Tuesday, after he called for stronger ties between the state and the Catholic Church. The issue is particularly sensitive in historically Catholic France, where matters of faith and state were separated by law in 1905 and which is now home to Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish communities. The president's remark might have raised fewer eyebrows had he left it until... Читать дальше...

As Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress on Tuesday, shares of Facebook closed by up more than 4.5 percent to end trading.

An early goal had City fans hoping, but it wasn’t nearly enough against Liverpool.

Manchester City's lightning start meant nothing, as Liverpool got a 2-1 win and a 5-1 aggregate victory in the Champions League last eight.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Ford Motor Co., up 20 cents to $11.45 Automakers rose after Chinese President Xi Jinping said he would reduce tariffs on imported cars. VeriFone Systems Inc., up $7.78 to $22.78 The maker of payment terminals for electronic payments agreed to be acquired for $2.5 billion. Marathon Oil Corp., up 71 cents to $17.06 Energy companies rose in tandem with the price of oil Tuesday. Tenneco Inc., up $2.27 to $57.82 The company said... Читать дальше...

Friday 07.12.2012

In the bus I said “Hi” to my ex-classmate Sarah. Andrea sat next to me. Imagine, she forgot to copy the Math notebook I gave her two days ago. She didn’t bring it with her because she overslept. What kind of irresponsibility is that?

In Campus 2, my colleagues still haven’t entered in lecture room 1. Now I was the one who was supposed to say something to them. Thomas was in my horizon.

I said:

-Good morning. Thomas.

But he wasn’t looking at me. Читать дальше...

Intel recently finished its barrage of CPU microcode updates designed to combat the nasty Spectre variant 2 exploit, and today, AMD revealed its plans to protect PCs against the flaw. (AMD processors aren’t vulnerable to Meltdown.)

The Procter & Gamble Co. said late Tuesday its board of directors declared an increase in the quarterly dividend to 71.72 cents a share. The dividend is payable May 15 to shareholders of record on April 20. That's a 4% increase compared with the previous quarterly dividend, the company said. It was the 62nd straight year that P&G has increased its dividend, and the company expects total dividend payments to shareholders of nearly $7.5 billion in fiscal year 2018. P&G has been paying... Читать дальше...

In Zuckerberg’s testimony before a joint session between the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees today, the Facebook CEO was forced to confront whether his company was now effectively a monopoly. Concerns about Facebook’s monopoly status have surfaced over the last year, with growing calls to break up the company. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) first brought up the monopoly issue; later, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AL) noted that regulation “can cement the dominant power,” implying that in this case, Facebook is that dominant power. Читать дальше...

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• Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois probed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his personal activities, like which hotel he stayed in while in Washington.
• Zuckerberg was hesitant to answer, which Durbin used to make a broader point about data privacy.

WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got into an awkward exchange with a top Democratic senator on Tuesday when the lawmaker began probing him about his own personal privacy.

During the blockbuster hearing on Capitol Hill, Sen. Читать дальше...

Facebook

• Mark Zuckerberg told US Congress that "I agree we are responsible for the content" on Facebook.
• It's a stark claim from Zuckerberg, who has previously claimed that Facebook is not a media company, and that it takes no responsibility for what gets posted to the platform.
• Twitter, Google, and other tech companies have made similar claims.

"I agree we are responsible for the content [on Facebook]," CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a joint session of the United States Congress today. Читать дальше...

Security expert: Putin’s Folly Could Lead to Mideast War President Trump has a real opportunity to take advantage of Vladimir Putin’s Syria failures — if he’ll “stop prevaricating,” argues Jonathan Schanzer at Politico. More than two years after unexpectedly thrusting Russia into the Syrian civil war in an alliance with Iran, Putin finds himself “in...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is countersuing a woman who said he sexually touched her when she was 14 and he was 32.

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• Senator Maria Cantwell tried to get answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the role secretive data mining company Palantir may have played in the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal.
• News reports said that Palantir was a player that helped CA gather data on Facebook.
• Zuckerberg said during Congressional testimony on Tuesday that he didn't know about that.
• It was a surprising admission given the close ties Facebook has with Palantir's founder... Читать дальше...

Enough is enough.

Back in October 2003, then-college freshman Mark Zuckerberg exploited lax computer security at Harvard’s online dorm directories (they were called “facebooks” after physical books full of little pictures of people’s faces that used to be distributed to students in the pre-digital era) to assemble a vast collection of photos of students’ faces, which were used as raw material for a web project he called Facemash. Facemash was essentially a clone of the then-popular Hot... Читать дальше...

After the recent launch of po.et, which aims to use the blockchain to create a new business model for digital media companies, Mike was... unconvinced. This led to a Twitter discussion with CEO Jarrod Dicker, which in turn led to a longer in-person conversation about the ideas behind the service and where it might go — and you can listen to the whole thing on this week's podcast episode.