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The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, on October 13, 2011.

The alert we received on Monday warned us not to tip off Sanislo Elementary librarian Craig Seasholes that CenturyLink rep Sue Anderson would be visiting the school with a surprise for him - a big $5,000 check as part of the CL/Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Teachers & Technology grant program .

TeliaSonera CEO Lars Nyberg stepped down February 1 as the company, whose two largest stakeholders are the Swedish and Finnish governments, came under increasing scrutiny for its activities in Uzbekistan.

Enterasys Networks recently revealed the results of its global channel partner survey, a set of technology- and vendor-related questions that were answered by 170 of its solution providers worldwide.

Cox Enterprises, in partnership with The James M. Cox Foundation, announced $1 million in support to assist the relief and recovery efforts of the communities affected by the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma.

3 U.S. wireless carrier. ** Specialty chemicals producer Rockwood Holdings Inc's pigments businesses have attracted offers from buyout firms including Blackstone Group LP and Advent International Corp, several people familiar with the matter said.

Flash Flood Watch expires at 7:00 PM on 5/21, issued at 9:29 AM Kiamichi Christian Mission, OK The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including nine children.

Sprint offered $3.40 a share, up 14 percent from a previous bid of $2.97 a share, the company said today in a statement.

May 21, 2013 - Rostelecom OJSC , Russia's national telecommunications operator, announces the launch of 3G+ networks in Volgograd and Volzhsky through CJSC Volgograd GSM, a 100% subsidiary of Rostelecom.

We've covered countless Motorola X Phone rumors here and up till now there has been no confirmation from either Google or Motorola regarding the time frame in which this device will be released.

TracFone , a telephone company owned by Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim's America Movi l filed a complaint on Monday accusing activist group Two Countries One Voice and its campaign against Slim in the United States of being a corporate smear campaign as opposed to a grassroots movement against the Mexican billionaire's "monopolistic practices", ... (more)

British mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Tuesday that annual net profit plunged 90 per cent after it took a vast 7.7-billion pounds impairment charge relating to its businesses in debt-laden Eurozone nations Italy and Spain.

Sprint Nextel Corp said its Japanese suitor SoftBank Corp granted it a waiver allowing it to consider a $25.5 billion rival bid by Dish Network Corp, as pressure mounts on SoftBank to sweeten its offer for the No.

The firm currently has a $3.25 target price on the stock, up from their previous target price of $2.75. Sonus Networks remained flat at $2.53 during trading on Monday.

On May 21, shareholders of JPMorgan Chase will have the opportunity to express their views of the Chairman/CEO of the mega-bank, and PR people have been filling the inboxes of every possible media outlet.

The covered call is a strategy where an investor writes a call option contract while at the same time owning an equivalent number of shares of the underlying stock.If this stock is purchased simultaneously with writing the call contract, the strategy is commonly referred to as a buy-write. While you may have heard that trading options is risky ... (more)

The company also added 277,000 subscribers through its worldwide partnerships with multisystems operators, primarily Virgin Media.

These are dark days for David Cameron and his government. Today's newspapers , in company with TV and radio news bulletins, are dominated by disputes within his party over same-sex marriage and the European Union .

Ruma Chopra talked about her book Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City During the Revolution .

Verizon's attempt to hang up on their copper networks in Sandy-impacted areas has gotten more complicated after the NY Public Service Commission last week indicated hesitation at letting Verizon disconnect users state wide without first understanding the repercussions.