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Reuters Unprecedented anti-government protests are taking place in Egypt, defying a government ban on Wednesday to protest against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old rule. Do you think the popular revolt in Tunisia, which overthrew the country's leader, is having a halo effect in the region?
CAIRO (Reuters) - Police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse Egyptian protesters in Cairo in the early hours of Wednesday after a long day of unprecedented protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
Reuters What do you think of Obama’s call for a five-year halt on domestic spending to help rein in the national deficit? Do you think his approach to job creation will work?
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Reuters Reuters.com Editor in Charge James Ledbetter and guest contributor Joshua Spivak will be going head to head and providing helpful commentary during the State of the Union.
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Reuters Facebook may be tough competition for Foursquare, but the startup's co-founder said they've got money to last through 2011, and are in no rush for a sale or public offering. Do you think Foursquare needs to step it up in order to compete with Facebook?
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Startup website Foursquare has enough money to last it through to the end of the year and is in no rush for a sale or public offering, despite new competition from Facebook.
Reuters As the global, business elite meet in Davos, how much of their behind-the-scenes discussions will they share via social media outlets?
Reuters correspondent Ben Hirschler shares his thoughts on the social media drive at this year's WEF meeting.
Reuters Today, the Pope praised the potential of social networks, but also warned against the pitfalls of depersonalization and alienation. What's your take on the pros & cons of social networking in the digital age?
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The 83-year-old pontiff, who does not have his own Facebook account, set out his views in a message with a weighty title that would easily fit into a tweet: "Truth, proclamation and authenticity of life in the digital age."
Reuters It’s a sort of Silicon Valley parlor game: Who will be the next Google? The answer may be ... Google.
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Few companies have changed the world — and then, having done so, are expected to repeatedly repeat as a matter of basic credibility. Will we have an “aha!” moment in the months to come, evidence that Google is pursuing a course in a way that would have seemed improbable under Schmidt?
Reuters editor Martin Howell describes the Do's and Don'ts of Davos.
Reuters It seems like a warning by the U.S. has persuaded China to take a harder line towards North Korea and opened the door to a resumption of inter-Korean talks. However, some experts believe this tactic may just backfire. Should the U.S. continue to play tough with China?
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned China that if it didn't rein in its ally North Korea it would redeploy forces in Asia, the New York Times reported on Friday, as Pyongyang bowed to
Reuters Augmented Reality is taking shape on a handheld near you. As the hype builds - one proponent calls it bigger than business - can it make money?
Running on smartphones and tablet computers, Augmented Reality overlays digital information - text, graphics, games -- on images of the world around us.
Reuters As founder Larry Page is poised to take over the CEO reins at the tech titan, managing its meteoric growth will be his greatest challenge, author Jeff Jarvis says.
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Google, like its founders, is growing up. It needs singular management. So let’s hope that Eric Schmidt did his most important job well—not managing but teaching.
Reuters For the year ahead, exposure to surprisingly strong domestic European growth may prove more lucrative than investing in markets such as China, still fast growing but which could be affected negatively by factors such as rising inflation.
LONDON (Reuters) - European equity investors take note: the emerging markets bet which paid off so handsomely last year may have run its course for the time being.
Reuters Today is the beginning of what could be a long tax reform season. There are plenty of advocates for reform in the witness list, but also corporate types who might say they've been beleaguered by tax complexity. We'd like to know what our fans think: does the tax code need to be reformed?
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It's your turn to opine about comprehensive tax reform. Take our poll, and weigh in with the House Ways and Means Committee, too. Here's how.
Reuters Boeing’s much-hyped, and much-delayed, 787 Dreamliner project is three years behind schedule and massively over budget. What went wrong? Critics point to outsourcing.
Someday Boeing's sleek, fuel-efficient 787-8 Dreamliners may change the face of air travel and plane-making. But not today.
Reuters Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, many illegally.
With a national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, domestic job creation is at the top of President Barack Obama's agenda and such findings could add to calls to tighten up on illegal immigration.
