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4 hrs ago | New York Post

'Ball buster' wife is teste: Weatherman claims low blow in fight

A knockdown, drag-out brawl between WABC/Channel 7 weatherman Bill Evans and his estranged wife took a nasty turn when she scratched his testicles and bruised his backside with a coat hanger, the meteorologist claimed.

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Related Topix: Greenwich, CT, Old Greenwich, CT, Verizon Communications, Telecom

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Reuters

Nikkei rises 1.3 pct on weak yen, Fed hopes; Softbank soars

The market also got a boost from Softbank Corp, which soared after Dish Network Corp said it would abandon a bid for Sprint Nextel.

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Related Topix: SoftBank, Financial Services, Investment Services, Sprint Nextel, Telecom, Financial Markets

CBS Local

Dekalb County CEO Burrell Ellis Indicted

DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis has been indicted by a DeKalb grand jury today on charges he illegally pressured contractors into giving him campaign contributions.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, CIBER, Computers, Software

Fortune

Taking the brutality out of brutal honesty

Paulett Eberhart is no shrinking violet. Brought in to turn the ship around at Philadelphia-based engineering and technology firm CDI, the executive told her team to be "brutally honest, but in a respectful way," even if they had to pound their fists on the table to get her attention.

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Related Topix: CDI, Human Resources

The Indian Express

Sex Scandal: Class action suit filed in US against iGate over Phaneesh Murthy affair

Outsourcing firm iGate has been slapped with class action lawsuit in the US for alleged violations of federal securities laws in view of its sacked CEO Phaneesh Murthy's "improper relationship" with a subordinate employee.

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Related Topix: Sex Scandal, Computers, iGATE, Software

Insider Monkey

AT&T Inc. (T): Fighting Hard, But Stuck In The Middle

AT&T Inc. has been losing ground to duopoly partner Verizon Communications Inc. in recent years.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom, ATT, Verizon Communications, Startups, Versant, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, AT&T

Information Technology

Stonesoft Receives Enterprise Firewall Certification From ICSA Labs

Only vendor with both the ICSA Labs Intrusion Prevention System Certification and Enterprise Level Network Firewall Certification Helsinki, Finland -18 June 2013 - The cyber security expert Stonesoft has obtained the ICSA Labs Enterprise Firewall Certification for Stonesoft FW-315 appliance.

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Related Topix: Finland, World News, Verizon Communications, Telecom, Verizon, VoIP, Science / Technology, Product Management

Canada Online Explorer

Verizon eyeing wireless business in Canada: Report

Verizon Communications Inc is looking to enter Canada's cellular telephone business, potentially fulfilling the government's hopes of having a fourth major wireless company, the Globe and Mail reported on Monday.

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Related Topix: Verizon Communications, Telecom, Verizon, Cellphones

Rediff.com

AirAsia India appoints Ramadorai as Chairman

A day after getting Tata Group patriarch Ratan Tata as the chief advisor, AirAsia Group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes on Monday announced the name of Tata Consultancy Services vice-chairman S Ramadorai as the chairman of his proposed low-cost airline venture.

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Related Topix: Automakers, Steel, Mining, Tata Motors, Tata Group, Tata Consultancy Services, Computers

Mon Jun 17, 2013

WTAQ-AM Green Bay

Insight: FBI relies on secret U.S. surveillance la...

The FBI has used secret evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prosecute at least 27 accused terrorists since 2007, according to a Reuters review of public records.

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Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Prison, Reuters, Media, Medicine, Triad Hospitals, Computers, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Thomson

Reuters

Sprint sues Dish, Clearwire as key deadline looms

Sprint Nextel Corp on Monday said it has sued Dish Network Corp to block its tender offer for Clearwire Corp, on the eve of a key deadline in a takeover battle that also includes Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank Corp. The lawsuit filed on Monday in Delaware Chancery Court accuses Dish of trying to "fool" and "coerce" Clearwire shareholders into ... (more)

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Related Topix: Sprint Nextel, Telecom, Wireless, Emerging Technology, SoftBank, Financial Services, Investment Services, Overland Park, KS, Park, KS

AmericanBankingNews.com

Oracle Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Jefferies Group

's stock had its "in-line" rating reiterated by Jefferies Group in a research note issued on Monday, AnalystRatingsNetwork reports.

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Related Topix: Startups, Oracle Corporation, Phase Forward, Telecom, WorldCom, Pillar Data Systems, Hyperion Solutions, Project Insight, Software

CNet News

Earthlink Augments Cloud Plan by Buying CenterBeam

Earthlink is transitioning from a standard ISP for 150,000 enterprises and 1 million consumers to a full-service IT and cloud services provider for middle-market customers.

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Related Topix: EarthLink, Telecom, Internet Service Providers, Sunnyvale, CA

The Washington Post

IPhone Eclipsed by TV Remote as Broadband Back in Europe: Tech

Move over, iPhone. At France Telecom SA's flagship store facing Paris's Madeleine church, fancy handsets have been shoved aside by the TV remote control, once an unlikely candidate for star product.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Telecom, France Telecom, Telefonica SA, TeliaSonera AB, Business News

Mydigitalfc.com

Cheap foreign loans spur India's outbound M&A march

Foreign banks are fuelling India's recent burst of overseas takeover bids, offering cheap U.S. dollar loans to corporates hungry to expand beyond their home state.

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Related Topix: Banking, Citigroup, Financial Services, CitiMortgage, Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Cooper Tire and Rubber, Reuters, Hospital Administration, Thomson, Media, Medicine, Triad Hospitals, Computers, Healthcare Industry

Business Times

Eutelsat, KKR said to place bids for SingTel's Australia unit

France's Eutelsat Communications SA and private equity firm KKR & Co are among the suitors to place first-round bids for Singapore Telecommunications Ltd's Australian satellite unit, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said [HONG KONG/SYDNEY] France's Eutelsat Communications SA and private equity firm KKR & Co are among the suitors to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Singapore Telecommunications, Telecom

Sun Jun 16, 2013

San Jose Mercury News

Stanford grads get advice from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at commencement address

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the 2013 commencement speaker at Stanford University.

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Related Topix: Stanford, CA, Michael Bloomberh, Startups, Stanford University, Bloomberg LP, Media, Science / Technology

The Courier

Congress briefed on US surveillance programs

Dogged by fear and confusion about sweeping spy programs, intelligence officials sought to convince House lawmakers in an unusual briefing Tuesday that the government's years-long collection of phone records and Internet usage is necessary for protecting Americans - and does not trample on their privacy rights.

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Related Topix: US News, Privacy, ACLU, Verizon Communications, Telecom, Verizon, US Politics, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives

Reuters

UPDATE 1-TeliaSonera picks Vodacom exec as new CEO -source

Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera has picked Johan Dennelind, the current chief executive of Vodacom International, as its new CEO, a source with knowledge of the recruitment process said on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Telecom, TeliaSonera AB

New York Post

Getting schooled

A university or college should never engage in cheating, but that is exactly what the University of Michigan is doing to individual investors in the markets.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Democrat, US Politics, Carl Levin, Hospital Administration, Thomson, Media, Medicine, Reuters, Triad Hospitals, Computers, Healthcare Industry

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