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Apple's iPad plays crucial role in Greece's debt restructuring
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One-hundred iPads were used to coordinate tens of thousands of bondholders signing off on the restructuring of Greece's debt....
CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Is About To Be Worth More Than All The Companies In Spain, Portugal And Greece COMBINED
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Here's a fun chart via our friends at Birinyi & Associates. It's Apple's market cap versus the combined market caps of all of the publicly traded companies in Spain, Portugal and Greece combined. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:HUGE CHART:...
CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Is About To Be Worth More Than All The Companies In Spain, Portugal And Greece COMBINED
IPhone's Crutch of Subsidies
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The iPhone's relatively low market share in countries such as Greece and Portugal, point to a rare weak spot for Apple—its heavy reliance on subsidies from wireless carriers to make the device affordable to a wider range of consumers....
HTC CEO Peter Chou will carry Olympic torch on its way to London
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The torch for London's 2012 Olympiad will be lit in Greece tomorrow, marking the first step in a long journey that will take it all around the UK in preparation for the official Summer Games that begin in late July. Among the many thousands of people that will get...
Internet Buys Bus Monitor A Vacation After She's Viciously Abused By Kids
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After a video of a middle school students attacking 68-year-old bus monitor went viral on Reddit, the site's community raised more than $48,000 to send her on a "vacation of a lifetime." This isn't the first time that outrage over a relatively unknown event has snowballed into a major...
Étienne Balibar: 'Ejecting Greece from the eurozone would be a moral failure for Europe'
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French Marxist philosopher Étienne Balibar discusses European identity amid the financial crisis and argues that the continent still has some way to go to rid itself of racism and xenophobiaAlex HealeyPhil MaynardJessica Reed...
Microsoft's Greece headquarters attacked by gunmen – video
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The head of Microsoft Greece says gunmen rammed a van packed with gas canisters into the tech giant's Athens headquarters, before they set the vehicle on fire...
Eurozone crisis: high-stakes gamble as David Cameron warns Greek voters
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PM says Greeks have choice in June election between voting to stay in euro and 'effectively voting to leave'A second Greek vote next month backing parties opposed to the European Union's bailout package would be a decisive vote to leave the euro for which contingency plans have to be made...
Next pre-release version of Windows 8 to support 38 markets for Windows Store apps
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Microsoft is planning to extend its Windows Store service to accept app submissions from developers in 38 markets in an upcoming pre-release version of Windows 8. The expansion will add 33 countries to the existing five markets available to developers for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, including: Australia, Austria,...
How 100 iPads helped close the deal on Greece’s debt crisis
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Bob Apfel, the founder of Bondholder Communications Group, told Fortune this morning that he completed the debt restructuring of Greece a couple of weeks ago with the help of an iPad. Well, 100 of them—to be exact. Greece looked at bankruptcy head-on just a few months ago, but it found mercy through a...
24 hours captured in a single 360-degree panoramic image
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Feast your eyeballs on this staggering 360-degree panorama that captures a complete transition from day to night. Though two years old, the image is making the rounds this week. It was shot on a Canon 550D in Sounio, Greece by Chris Kotsiopoulos, and is comprised of 560 different images...
Microsoft office in Greece attacked with bomb
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Unknown assailants drive a van through Microsoft's Athens office and set off a firebomb. Happily, no one is injured. [Read more]...
Apple's $100bn cash hoard: just how big is it really?
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And how big is a billion anyway? Click the image below to see what you could get with the $97.6bn Apple has in cash reserves - and see how much you know about the number that is everywhereApple decides what to do with $97.6bn in cash reserves the company has...
100 Apple iPads save Greece $140 billion
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In the midst of a debt crisis totaling more than $270 billion, the country of Greece found salvation, and a large chunk of change, by using iPads to help restructure its debt. [Read more]...
Clients, not banks, liable for losses in phishing scams, court rules
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The German Federal Court of Justice in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe said on Tuesday that clients, and not banks, are responsible for money lost in online phishing scams. The country’s highest civil court ruled that in the case of a German retiree who lost €5,000 ($6,608) in a...
OH NO: Look What's Happening Again To Apple's Stock Again
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We talked about this all last week, and it's happening again. Apple shares are badly underperforming the whole market. While the S&P 500 is solidly positive, shares of Apple are down over 1%. Here's a chart of Apple vs. the S&P 500 ETF. As you can see, those big red...
Bitcoin Gets a Boost From Euro Crisis
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(Photo: Flickr.com/Images_of_Money) The FBI recently estimated that after three years, the Bitcoin economy is worth at least $35 million. Thanks to the uncertainty surrounding certain government currencies, it may soon be worth more. The Financial Post reports that fear over the value of the euro, strained by potential government insolvency...
iTunes Match begins rolling out in Italy, Portugal, Greece and more
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Apple has been slowly rolling out its iTunes Match service worldwide over the past few months. Today it looks like more countries have been added, as the music matching service has begun rolling out in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, and Austria. Users in these countries can now signup for the...
Gunmen drive into Microsoft's Greece headquarters, set van on fire
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Armed men drove a stolen van loaded with gas canisters into the Microsoft Greece headquarters in Athens on Wednesday and set it on fire, causing damage to the building....
Gunmen Drive Into Microsoft's Greece Headquarters, Set Van on Fire
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Armed men drove a stolen van loaded with gas canisters into the Microsoft Greece headquarters in Athens on Wednesday and set it on fire, causing damage to the......
In Message to Rioting Greeks, Anonymous Issues Warning to Europe (Video)
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In a video posted Sunday on a popular Youtube channel devoted to distributing its "Official Messages," Anonymous addressed the people of Greece as well as the rest of the European Union. Narrating images from Athens in its usual synthesized, accent-free voice-over, the amorphous hacker collective denied it was behind the...
Apple Shares Are Getting Demolished More In The Final Moments Of The Day
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Ugly! Apple down over 4%! Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Is About To Be Worth More Than All The Companies In Spain, Portugal And Greece COMBINEDJPMORGAN: One Of These 15 Companies Could Be The Next AppleSomething...
iTunes Match reportedly going live in new European countries including Italy, Austria, and Greece
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Apple's iTunes Match cloud music service is broadening its international reach, with the service reportedly going live in several new European countries. MacRumors reports that several readers in Italy, Austria, and Greece have had to agree to an updated iTunes terms and conditions document — which includes references to...
Today's Market Is Impressive, And Apple Is Blowing The Doors Off
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There are a lot of concerning headlines out there: More Facebook tankage. Greece getting closer to the brink. JPMorgan suspending its buybacks. And yet! The market is rallying nicely. The S&P is up just under 1%, and the NASDAQ is up over 1%. And Apple (which has really been a...
The new iPad launches in 25 more countries today
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A week on from the first wave of new iPad releases, Apple is pushing out its latest tablet to a number of additional territories. Among the new markets are Mexico, New Zealand, all of Scandinavia, and Vlad Savov's motherland of Bulgaria. Pricing varies from country to country — in...
ACTA on the edge in Europe? Poland suspends ratification, Greece gets hacked
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Anger at last month's decision by the European Union and 22 of its member states to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has led to widespread protests, hacked Web sites, and legislators backing away from the treaty. The anti-ACTA protests that saw Polish politicians don Guy Fawkes masks in...
Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome
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Aurich Lawson In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF)." David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that,...
Pub owner Karen Murphy wins appeal in TV-decoder battle against Sky
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It's been a few months since we last heard about the legal kerfuffle between Sky and pub owner Karen Murphy. In case you've been out of the loop, it all started when the UK broadcasting giant went after Murphy for using what was deemed to be an illegal method...
Artists design Greece's new currency – in pictures
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Economic instability in Greece could soon force the country out of the eurozone, which means it will need to print a new currency – four artists decide to help them out...
How Electionista helps filter through Tweets from current elections in 6 different countries
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This weekend sees elections taking place in six different countries, Serbia, Armenia, France, Germany, Italy and Greece. If you live and work in Europe, these are all important to keep an eye one while the economic crisis rolls on. Each may have a different impact on the economy more widely...
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