Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’

Spot.us Funds Landmark New York Times Article

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 15:58 By Rajeev Saxena

One of the biggest organizations, Spot.us, which is a funded by a host of individuals and whose sole purpose is to promote and give boost to freelance journalism. The article written by the freelance journalist, Lindsey Hoshaw was backed by a funding of $10,000 from various individual contributions channeled through Spot.us.
The article written by Lindsey [...]

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Media Tycoon Rupert Murdoch To Block Google Access To Its Sites

Monday, November 16, 2009 6:24 By Rajeev Saxena

News Corp., that is of the biggest and most widely acclaimed media empire has announced that, it will shortly be blocking Google Bots’ access to its websites, meaning that, websites run by News Corporation will no longer be indexed by Google. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of News Corp., has stated that, he [...]

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Iran Nuclear Crisis: And the plot thickens…

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 9:26 By GSerrano

The possible and highly probable Iran nuclear threat has stirred some worry in high places once again. This is due to two major leaks that recently occurred.
In the first leak, ‘the New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear oversight group, had produced an [...]

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Skype to Be Sold by eBay

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 17:35 By Robert

For all you Skype fans, here is interesting news about the famous online telephony service. According to a team of reporters from the New York Times, Skype will soon be sold by eBay to a group of private investors. This includes Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s new Venture Capital group. With recession going on at high [...]

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More rain, less murders in New York

Saturday, July 4, 2009 19:06 By NARUTO

An analysis by the New York Times about the rain and the murders in the last six years shows that when it rains substantially in the summer, there are fewer murders. The average homicide that is 17 days to ten, drops to 14 murders in ten days.
This is not surprising for Vernon J. Geberth, a [...]

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China vs Internet

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:56 By GSerrano

China has left the repressive shackles of Communism but vestiges of state control are hard to shake off. One of these lingering practices is censorship. Fairly recently, China censored the information on the melamine tainted milk scandal which government authorities had known even before the Beijing Olympics. For fear of tarnished image that could wipe [...]

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