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London, Apr 2 : Hollywood actor Robert Patrick is gearing up to reprise his role as the evil robot in 'Terminator 5'. Read the rest of this entry »
Jonathan Weil over at Bloomberg finds a great way to illustrate the see-no-evil-hear-no-evil policy being instituted by the accounting-standards board FASB to make banks look healthier. Read the rest of this entry »
Google is reported to be searching for a new corporate motto to replace its famous "don't be evil" because it has become an easy target for its critics. David Krane, a senior spokesperson for Google, told SVW: "I never liked it. I always felt that it would... Read the rest of this entry »
New York-based Signature Bank has returned $120 million in federal TARP funds to the Treasury. President and CEO Joseph DePaolo says the TARP program is now perceived as helping "evil" banks, and he doesn't want that stigma associated with his company. Read the rest of this entry »
When Peter Chernin settled into his plush seat at the Kodak Theatre for last Sunday night's Oscars to see his company's film Slumdog Millionaire sweep the board, he was holding a secret that would set Hollywood abuzz just as soon as the red carpet had been rolled up for another year. Read the rest of this entry »
The mission in insurgency-plagued Afghanistan is "a serious test" for the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »
Allen Stanford, the Texan cricket impresario, borrowed $1.6 billion from his investment empire, it emerged today as his chief investment officer was due in a Houston court to hear charges that she has obstructed regulators. Read the rest of this entry »
The court-appointed receiver overseeing the financial empire of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has located $90 million in assets so far, an FBI agent said on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
Existing punishments just aren't good enough. Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel thinks something new, something creative should be devised to punish Bernie Madoff - who wiped out $15.2 million from the Holocaust survivor's charitable... Read the rest of this entry »
In a newly released paper entitled "Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing" Tyler Moore and Richard Clayton provide empirical evidence according to which 75.8% of the phishing sites that they've analyzed (2486 sites) were hosted on compromised web servers to which the phishers obtained access through... Read the rest of this entry »