I have repeatedly warned that credit default swaps are not meaningfully being reigned in, and that the failure to do so will cause future problems.Mark Mobius – executive chairman of the $25 billion dollar Templeton asset management fund – agrees:A new…
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Head of $25 Billion Templeton Fund: Derivatives Will Cause Another Crisis
July 15th, 2009 |
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New Opterons Heat Up Competition Between AMD, Intel
July 13th, 2009 |
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AMDs release of two new models of its six-core Opteron processors is not only expanding the markets for its“Istanbul” Opteron family, but also putting the industry on notice that AMD is pushing its competition with rival Intel. The new Opteron processors offer better performance and energy efficiency than their quad-core predecessors, and AMD officials are aiming them at HPC and cloud computing environments.
– With the release of two new models of its six-core Opteron processor, Advanced Micro Devices is not only expanding the reach of its “Istanbul” family of chips, but also is putting more pressure on larger rival Intel.
AMD officials are looking to their six-core Opteron to compete not only with Intel…
Turkish PM calls China killings “genocide”
July 11th, 2009 |
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The Turkish prime minister has spoken out against ethnic violence in China, describing it as a kind of genocide. On Friday, there were angry protests in Istanbul following the unrest in China’s Xinjiang province between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.