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Internet service goes out across Syria

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 29th

By By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUEAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was closed by heavy fighting in the country's civil war. Activists said President

Ericsson sues Samsung for patent infringement

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 27th

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson has filed a lawsuit in the United States against Samsung Electronics Co. for infringing its patents, saying two years of negotiations to strike a deal with the South Korean company have been unsuccessful. Ericsson says the lawsuit

Stocks end lower after a strong week

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

By CHRISTINA REXRODEAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street came back to work after the Thanksgiving weekend and faced leftover worries about the "fiscal cliff" and the European debt crisis. Stocks retreated after one of their best weeks of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average fell

Wal-Mart suspends India staff in corruption probe

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 23rd

By ERIKA KINETZAP Business Writer MUMBAI, India (AP) - Wal-Mart's Indian joint venture said Friday it has suspended several employees as part of an internal corruption investigation, another blow to the U.S. company's plans for aggressive expansion in a giant market that is largely

Glum Spain hosts summit for booming Latam nations

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 16th

By ALAN CLENDENNING and JORGE SAINZAssociated Press CADIZ, Spain (AP) - In an historic role reversal, recession-hit Spain and Portugal on Friday courted the Latin American leaders of their former colonies, countries that now enjoy some of the strongest economic growth in the world. Spain's

Dividend investors face a tangled year-end tax web

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 15th

By MARK JEWELLAP Personal Finance Writer BOSTON (AP) - What if one of your key sources of income were taxed at three times the rate you pay now? That's a realistic possibility next year for high-income investors who own dividend-paying stocks or mutual funds. Dividend investors earning

KPN sells German assets for $500 million

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 15th

AMSTERDAM (AP) - Royal KPN NV says it has agreed to sell its network of broadcasting towers for mobile telephony in Germany to American Tower Corp. of the U.S. for €393 million (around $500 million). KPN, the Netherlands' largest telecommunications company, also is the third-largest mobile

Google sees more government snooping in first half of 2012

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 14th

By Graeme McMillanProvided by You may not be having an affair with a high-ranking American intelligence official, but that doesn't mean that Big Brother isn't watching you nonetheless. Or, at least, that might be the impression that you're left with upon discovering that Google has

Google sees more government snooping in first half of 2012

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 14th

Google sees more government snooping in first half of 2012

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 14th