Archive for January, 2010

Asian companies hope to reap iPad boom (AFP)

AFP – The iPad may have been designed in the United States, but Apple’s money-spinning products are manufactured in the high-tech factories of east Asia.

Read the rest here:
Asian companies hope to reap iPad boom
(AFP)

1994 looms as stark reminder (Politico)

Politico – The same signs are all there for health care, circa 2010.

View original post here: 
1994 looms as stark reminder
(Politico)

White House to paint grim fiscal picture: source (Reuters)

Reuters – The White House will predict a record budget deficit in the current fiscal year and more big shortfalls for the next decade in its upcoming budget proposal, a congressional source told Reuters on Sunday.

Originally posted here:
White House to paint grim fiscal picture: source
(Reuters)

Beat LA? Not this time for Celtics (AP)

AP – Kobe Bryant sank a go-ahead fallaway jumper with 7.3 seconds left to give the Los Angeles Lakers a 90-89 victory over Boston on Sunday and send the struggling Celtics to their sixth loss in eight games.

Read more here:
Beat LA? Not this time for Celtics
(AP)

Pakistan Islamist tied to CIA bombing believed dead (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — The Pakistani Taliban leader tied to the Dec. 30 bombing of a CIA encampment in Afghanistan has died from injuries sustained in a U.S. missile strike in mid-January, Western military officials said Sunday.

Read the original post:
Pakistan Islamist tied to CIA bombing believed dead
(McClatchy Newspapers)

Germany divided over buying secret Swiss bank data (Reuters)

Reuters – German politicians were divided at the weekend over whether to buy the bank data of up to 1,500 possible tax evaders with accounts in Switzerland that media say an informant has offered to sell authorities.

Go here to see the original:
Germany divided over buying secret Swiss bank data
(Reuters)

U.S. to resume medevac flights from Haiti (Reuters)

Reuters – The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday.

See the original post here:
U.S. to resume medevac flights from Haiti
(Reuters)

Fiat unions chafe at boss’s aggressive decisions (AFP)

AFP – Admiration for Sergio Marchionne, the dynamic boss of Italian automaker Fiat, is giving way to grumbling as unions and the government question some of his more aggressive decisions.

Read the original here: 
Fiat unions chafe at boss’s aggressive decisions
(AFP)