The finance authorities of Euro zone granted Greece two weeks starting Monday to finalize more reductions in expenditure and tax boosts in trade for an additional 12 billion Euros in crisis loans, increasing pressure on Athens to sort out its worn out finances. After two days of emergency discussions, the ministers successfully gave Athens a [...] (Continue reading)
All the Saudi women, and men, in support for the recently aroused Women2Drive campaign are still constantly active on Twitter and Facebook, posting updates declaring that they drove cars in Saudi Arabia on Friday. This campaign is an initiative to defy the ban placed on female drivers within the country. Bulks of tweets are being [...] (Continue reading)
By the means of facial recognition tech and DNA gathered from “multiple family members,” central establishment say they have finally established that Osama bin Laden was the man shot down in the Abbottabad attack — with the likelihood that the DNA sample extracted from anyone except the Al Qaeda leader pegged at one in 11.8 [...] (Continue reading)
The European Union articulated frustration at an address of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday and said it was planning to expand its sanctions on Syria in reply to worsening hostility against his rivals. EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg said: “The EU is actively preparing to expand its restrictive measures … with a view [...] (Continue reading)
EU foreign ministers decided on Monday to scrutinize using frozen Libyan resources to support insurgents opposing Muammar Gaddafi, with Italy saying funds frozen under sanctions could be employed as guarantees for loans. Revolutionists have long nitpicked that they are short of cash and require access to Libyan wealth in foreign accounts so they can pay [...] (Continue reading)
Several Saudi women have voluntarily signed up for an online campaign instigated and operated through social media networks, basically challenging the ban on female drivers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, posting comments and photos of themselves driving on the roads of the conservative country. Online groups on Facebook entitled as “Women2Drive” and “Women’s Right [...] (Continue reading)
The world famous video game developing legend, Japan-based Sega Corp, made an announcement this Sunday declaring that a data breach at their network has led to the data theft of a minimum of 1.3 million customers. The cyber-attack stole valuable user information from its database, just like the recent trend of global cyber-attacks against video [...] (Continue reading)
The Ballymascanlon Hotel has sued Google Inc. due to an Autocomplete suggestion while searching on the searching engine, which implies that the hotel might be going towards receivership. The Ballymascanlon Hotel, located in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland is apparently provoked by the suggestion made by Google Inc.’s search engine, as it received tearful phone calls [...] (Continue reading)
This Monday in Singapore a ground-breaking meeting will take place, deciding on whether to allow open new domain suffixes for private companies or not. The agenda of the meeting hosted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is very clear as the discussion will essentially involve around the controversial question of giving [...] (Continue reading)
The Australian Media Company, Fairfax, has made a special announcement this Sunday declaring that the paywalls are vital for its business. This announcement has come way after its chief rival publisher, News Limited, confirmed that it is also starting to charge for some of its online services later this year. The head of the Fairfax [...] (Continue reading)