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DIARY - Egypt/Sudan - July 11 3:31am EDT

This diary is updated daily. New listings or amendments are marked *. All events/times provisional and in GMT (local time is GMT +3 for Egypt and Sudan).  Full Article

 
North Korea army behind South web attack - report Friday, 10 Jul 2009 11:02pm EDT 

SEOUL, July 11 (Reuters) - North Korea's military is behind a series of cyber attacks against South Korean and U.S. websites that slowed or disabled access by saturating them with traffic this week, a South Korean news report said on Saturday.  Full Article  

UPDATE 1-Hoku Scientific may sell co on financing woes Friday, 10 Jul 2009 06:59pm EDT 

BANGALORE, July 10 (Reuters) - Hoku Scientific Inc , a supplier of raw materials to the solar industry, said it may explore the sale of the company as it struggles to raise capital for a polysilicon plant in Idaho, sending its shares down 15 percent.  Full Article  

Big media seek 21st century business models Friday, 10 Jul 2009 04:51pm EDT

SUN VALLEY, Idaho July 10 (Reuters) - Media moguls at this week's Sun Valley conference have spent as much time discussing how to reconfigure business models disrupted by the Web as they have worrying about the weak economy.  Full Article

 
UPDATE 3-Murdoch's UK arm denies phone hacking allegations Friday, 10 Jul 2009 04:31pm EDT

LONDON/NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp denied on Friday allegations its journalists had hacked into the phones of thousands of public figures, following days of damning headlines.  Full Article

 
UPDATE 1-Hong Kong votes for $468 mln Disneyland expansion Friday, 10 Jul 2009 03:25pm EDT

HONG KONG, July 10 (Reuters) - Hong Kong lawmakers approved a government plan on Friday to spend HK$3.63 billion ($468 million) expanding the city's Disneyland theme park with Walt Disney , boosting the smallest of Disney's five resorts.  Full Article

 
Owners discuss Italy news agency merger-sources Friday, 10 Jul 2009 02:58pm EDT

MILAN, July 10 (Reuters) - The owners of two of Italy's leading news agencies Agi and Radiocor are discussing merging them, two sources close to the operation told Reuters on Friday.  Full Article

 
UPDATE 2-Rosetta Stone sues Google alleging trademark violation Friday, 10 Jul 2009 02:21pm EDT

BANGALORE, July 10 (Reuters) - Rosetta Stone Inc , a provider of language-learning software, said it filed a lawsuit against Google Inc in a U.S. federal court, alleging trademark infringement.  Full Article

 
UPDATE 2-Cogeco posts higher Q3 profit, FY10 view lags Street Friday, 10 Jul 2009 02:03pm EDT

* Cogeco Cable shares down 5 pct (Adds details, updates stock movement)  Full Article

 
UPDATE 1-Cisco denies new job cuts report Friday, 10 Jul 2009 01:48pm EDT

* Shares slightly higher (Adds Cisco comment, recasts headline and throughout, updates share price)  Full Article

 
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Patience pays for foreign banks in Japan Thursday, 9 Jul 2009 09:47am EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. and European banks may dream of making it big in Japan, but tough local competition and costly past failures mean they will largely remain niche players in the world's second-biggest economy.  Full Article  |  Video 

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