Ex-Microsoft employee charged with insider trading
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged two Seattle men on Thursday with 35 counts of illegally trading on private Microsoft Corp information, which prosecutors said netted the pair more than $390,000 in illicit profits over an 18-month period. Brian Jorgenson, a senior portfolio manager at Microsoft, passed information to […]
France: It’s not sexting, it’s textopornographie
France, a nation with a centuries-old reputation for seduction, now has a word for sexting. If you want to send sexually explicit photos or text...
Amazon workers to continue strikes in 2014 as pay dispute continues
Workers at Amazon.com Inc's German operations plan to continue industrial action next year, the Verdi labour union said on Friday, in a pay dispute that...
Winter solstice marked by an animated Google doodle
Winter solstice is the subject of Saturday's animated Google doodle. Winter solstice is the day that the maximum elevation of the sun, which gets lower...