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Getty Images taking Microsoft to court
September 5th, 2014
Microsoft has launched a new online product that Getty Images says allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites and is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, the photo agency claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal ...
Bitcoin trader admits unlicensed money transfers
September 5th, 2014
The operator of an exchange for the virtual currency Bitcoin has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Charlie Shrem from BitInstant.com admitted the charges in a New York federal court hearing. Another Bitcoin trader, Robert Faiella, ...
OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Commodities
September 5th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 5, 2014 Gold attempted to move higher on Thursday but got stuck in its tracks as the dollar strengthened with the correlation being too strong to ignore. Gold is looking weak and likely ...
OSB Daily Technical Analysis – Currency pairs
September 5th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for September 5, 2014 EUR/USD Collapse of the EURUSD losing two big figures after the ECB announcement caught markets off guard on Thursday by announcing a rate cut. Serious damage to the chart with next ...
At Trial, Arab Bank’s Lawyer Spars With Witness
September 5th, 2014
For three days, the former chief of the Israeli military’s Palestinian Affairs Department delivered important, if a bit dry, testimony in the terrorism financing trial of Arab Bank in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The witness, Arieh Spitzen, had ...
U.S. Trade Deficit Shrinks
September 5th, 2014
The good news? The overall U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly shrank a bit less than 1 percent in July from June. It was the smallest gap in half a year, and exports broke a record. The bad news? The U.S. ...
No Matter the Outcome, Scottish Vote Will Shake U.K.
September 5th, 2014
Until this week, almost nobody outside Scotland took very seriously the possibility that Europe’s most stable and durable nation, the only big country on earth not to have suffered invasion, revolution or civil war at any time in the ...
Fed’s Powell says alternative to Libor needed
September 5th, 2014
The U.S. Federal Reserve will accelerate its search for a substitute to the Libor benchmark interest rate to stave off what would be “a horrible mess” if the current system collapses with no alternative, Fed Governor Jerome Powell said ...
Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo Will Feature Over 40 Virtual Currency Experts and 21 Sessions
September 5th, 2014
Inside Bitcoins , the leading international conference and expo exploring the business opportunities and threats posed by the growth of cryptocurrencies, debuts in London, 15-16 September, 2014. Taking place at the Grange St. Pauls Hotel, on the doorstep of ...
Investment in Latin America Falls 10% in First Half
September 5th, 2014
Private equity and venture capital investments in Latin America dropped by 10 percent in the first half of this year compared with figures in the period a year earlier, the Latin American Private Equity and Venture Capital Association said ...
