Cybercrime toll threatens new financial crisis (New Scientist)

Internet crime costs $100 bn annually and international regulation is needed to prevent a catastrophe "equivalent to the current financial crisis", say experts

South Africa: MTN in China to Scout for Cheap and Reliable Cellphones (AllAfrica.com)

MTN has sent a team of engineers to China to assess cellphone handsets that can retail for about $10, which it believes is crucial if cellular services are to spread throughout Africa.

Proposal for ZAP car plant idled (Lexington Herald-Leader)

FRANKFORT . Highly ballyhooed plans to build ZAP electric vehicles in Kentucky have stalled. A key investor has pulled out of the project and backers now say they need $150 million to $200 million in federal assistance. If additional funding for the $84 million factory . which Gov. Steve Beshear said in August would employ 4,000 workers . cannot be found, it may have to move to ...

Final Statement of Asia Migration Congress (Zenit News Agency)

BANGKOK, Thailand, NOV. 6, 2008 ( Zenit.org ). Here is the final document released at the end of the 1st Asian Congress for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees, held Nov. 6-8 in Bangkok.

World AIDS Day Marks 20th Anniversary Of Solidarity (Medical News Today)

For Eric Sawyer, the late 1980s was a "war time situation". "People with AIDS were fighting for their lives and for their friends", says Sawyer, an AIDS activist and co-founder of ACT UP New York.

Obama Embrace of Wall Street Insiders Points to Politic Reforms (Bloomberg)

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- During the height of the financial crisis in late September, some of Barack Obama 's campaign advisers pushed him in a conference call to distance himself from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson . The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Obama Embrace of Wall Street Insiders Points to Politic Reforms (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- During the height of the financial crisis in late September, some of Barack Obama's campaign advisers pushed him in a conference call to distance himself from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief executive officer, they warned, was too close to President George W. Bush and Wall Street.

Rubin Failure on Swaps Dims Odds Obama Will Rein In Wall Street (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- During the height of the financial crisis in late September, some of Barack Obama’s campaign advisers pushed him in a conference call to distance himself from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief executive officer, they warned, was too close to President George W. Bush and Wall Street.

Socialism and consumerism rub shoulders in Tripoli (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

As economic barriers fall between Libya and the West, a boom-town atmosphere fed by the novelty of consumer culture has gripped its capital Tripoli.

Stop paying to make phone calls (ITBusiness.ca)

Your business needs to save every penny it can with the economy in a tailspin, so why not stop paying for phone calls? Phone services can be a big part of a small business' expenses.