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Cyber attack hits the US Senate: massive optical illusion?

June 14, 2011 - 3:18am | Analytics | News
Cyber attack hits the US Senate: massive optical illusion?

The website of the US Senate was hacked last week, after which all the Senate website were checked for hijacking, reports the information agency Reuters.

The intrusion into the computer network of the Senate is the latest in a series of the so called “embarrassing” attacks that have happened over a recent period of time.


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US debt is forecast to grow to 102% of GDP: default of the great nation?

June 9, 2010 - 3:13am | Analytics | News
US debt is forecast to grow to 102% of GDP: default of the great nation?

A Treasury Department report to the US Congress reveals that the US debt will reach $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015. The report was sent to the Congress last week indicating that the ratio of debt to the gross domestic product would rise to 102 percent by 2015 from 93 percent this year.


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The United States is going in wrong direction, Americans believe

October 29, 2009 - 3:06am | Figures | News
The United States is going in wrong direction, Americans believe

 According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll most of American people believe the nation has the wrong direction in its development. Asked if things in the U.S. are generally headed in the right direction or are off on the wrong track, 52% said they were off on the wrong track. 36% of the respondents said the country was headed in the right direction.


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Compromise in the Senate on credit card bill promises its certain approval

May 12, 2009 - 4:11am | Law aspects | News
Compromise in the Senate on credit card bill promises its certain approval

Credit-card-reform legislation now has more chances to be approved by the Senate this week as the chamber leaders reached a bipartisan compromise that obviously suits both parties. The top members of Democrat and Republican camps at the Senate Banking Committee offered their amendments to the legislation and agreed to promote the jointly modified bill which would limit fees, enhance disclosures and curb some rate practices seen as unfair and predatory by consumer groups.


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Ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman running for California Governor

February 10, 2009 - 3:47am | News | Other themes
Ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman running for California Governor

Meg Whitman intends to run for the governor of California. Deborah Perry Piscione, CEO of BettyConfidential.com, who talked with Whitman over the weekend, notes that using her economic knowledge and business background Whitman plans ‘to help in practical ways to solve the problems real people are having right now’.


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Former eBay CEO as a Republican candidate, will Meg Whitman win?

January 6, 2009 - 6:08am | News | Other themes
Former eBay CEO as a Republican candidate, will Meg Whitman win?

Former eBay executive Meg Whitman is preparing to run for the California governor in 2010. Last year she stepped onto the political stage as an adviser to John McCain who lost to President-elect Barack Obama in California by 24 percentage points. As of December 31 Whitman stepped from the boards of eBay, Procter & Gamble Co. and DreamWorks Animation SKG.


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