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• 12/16/2011 - RIM delays Blackberry 10 phones
The new OS will power a new generation of phone, which the company hopes will allow it to reduce the increasing dominance of Google Android and Apple, and to fend off the challenges coming from Nokia and Microsoft.
RIM said that it could not get enough chips for its new phones and that the delays were unavoidable.
The company’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis also disappointed investors by cutting its prediction of sales to between 11 and 12 million smartphones in the current Christmas quarter, down from 14.8 million over the same time last year.
The delays mean the BB10 range, which will use the QNX operating system that runs the BlackBerry PlayBook, will now be available late in 2012, rather than by March. The PlayBook itself has however cost BlackBerry an extra $365million in charges for unsold devices.
"It may take some time to realise the benefits of the platform transition that we are undertaking, but we continue to believe that RIM has the right set of strengths and capabilities to maintain a leading role in the mobile communications industry,” RIM's joint chief executives Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis said in a statement.
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• 12/16/2011 - Online games maker Zynga raises $1bn in flotation
The company has priced its initial public offering (IPO) of 100 million shares at $10 a share. The price values the company at about $9bn.
Its flotation will be the largest by an internet company since Google raised $1.9bn at its IPO in 2004.
Founded in 2007, Zynga doubled sales to $829m in the first nine months of 2011.
Unlike its main rivals, it does not charge for the actual games, but makes money by selling add-ons including weapons or extra characters.
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Users might have to visit that virtual store 10 times in order to build a Starbucks franchise in their own virtual cities.
Stephanie Chang, research analyst at Renaissance Capital, said: "It's currently the leader in the social gaming space. It has 54 million daily active users, which is more than the next 14 game developers combined."
She also pointed to the company's exposure to an estimated 3% of internet users, which gave it potential advertising potential of $1.5bn.
"That's a source of growth they haven't even tapped into yet," she said.
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• 12/16/2011 - Morgan Stanley job cuts
Morgan Stanley plans on ringing in 2012 on a decidedly sour note.
The white-shoe investment bank plans on doling out pink slips to roughly 1,600 employees in the first three months of next year.
Hundreds of those employees likely will be from the New York metro area, which already has been hammered by a raft of layoffs by Wall Street heavyweight banks.
Morgan Stanley, run by CEO James Gorman, described the cuts as a part of an initiative to “right size” the Manhattan-based global banking franchise, which employs some 62,000 workers in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
A spokeswoman declined to provide further details on the layoffs.
People familiar with the moves said that the cuts will occur across the firm but will likely be centered on the bank’s traders and equity and debt sales personnel.
Morgan Stanley and other big banks, including Goldman Sachs, and the investment banking arms of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America, have been buffeted by a triple witching of a sluggish domestic economy, regulatory reform and persistent worries about Europe’s health.
And New York, the center of the financial world, has been hit the hardest.
Cuts at Morgan Stanley come after Citigroup announced plans to lay off 4,500 workers — more than 400 in New York — and rival Goldman Sachs also has been slashing staff.
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• 12/16/2011 - FAMU students protest governor's call for president to resign
Florida Gov. Rick Scott met late Thursday with a group of several hundred Florida A&M students upset over his recommendation that trustees suspend the school's president in the wake of alleged hazing and "financial irregularities."
Chanting "We've got questions. You've got answers," the students marched to the governor's mansion, promising to stay until Scott changed his mind.
"We are not going to leave," said Breyon Love, the FAMU student body president. "Mr. Governor, with all due respect, we will be here all night, all day tomorrow until you apologize or rescind that recommendation."
Appearing in a gray sweatshirt, Scott addressed the crowd through a megaphone outside the mansion, thanking them for caring and coming out.
"I want the best thing for FAMU. I want the best thing for the FAMU family. I want the best thing for the great state of Florida," the governor told students, although not conceding to their wishes.
Earlier, Scott had told the chairman of FAMU's board of trustees, Solomon L. Badger III, that he felt the board should take further action against university President James Ammons when it meets Monday, the statement said. The governor also "placed a call" to Ammons to notify him of these conversations.
"I think it's in his best interests (to) make sure that there is no question that this university is doing the right thing and cooperating," Scott said Thursday.
The discussions came after Scott returned Thursday from a trade mission to Israel and was briefed by staffers on recent developments out of the Tallahassee university, according to the governor's office.
Ammons responded Thursday that he was "sure that this investigation will determine that, under my leadership, the administration acted appropriately."
At the same time, he said he was prepared to accept his fate.
"I serve at the pleasure of the FAMU board of trustees, and I will abide by whatever decision the board reaches," he said.
Badger also released a statement in which he acknowledged "a communication with the governor." He said he hadn't talked with other trustees, promising that "we will make a decision about how we move forward Monday."
"This is a very difficult decision that we are facing," Badger said.
The band's director, Julian White, has been placed on administrative leave. One trustee, Rufus Montgomery, advocated a week ago that the university president should likewise be suspended -- but, instead, the board voted then to reprimand him.
"If you can place ... Julian White on administrative leave pending an investigation outcome, then we as a board can place James Ammons on administrative leave, procedure-wise," Montgomery said December 8.
The school president had pledged Wednesday to "root out this culture of hazing," though he declined to offer details about what specifically might change.
Band drum major Robert Champion Jr., 26, died after a November 19 football game following a suspected hazing incident.
He "reportedly threw up in the parking lot and started complaining of not being able to breathe," authorities said in a statement. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No cause of death has been released.
Some band members said he may have died after a rite of passage called "crossing Bus C." One member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that members "walk from the front of the bus to the back of the bus back backward while the bus is full of other band members, and you get beaten until you get to the back."
About three weeks before Champion's death, freshman band member Bria Hunter suffered a cracked femur, deep bone bruising and blood clots after being beaten repeatedly on the thighs, according to arrest affidavits from Tallahassee police.
Three men -- Sean Hobson, 23, Aaron Golson, 19, and James Harris, 22 -- were charged with hazing, a crime under Florida law, this week in her case. Hobson and Golson additionally are charged with felony battery.
"We're sending all these kids off to school. ... We expect them to come back with an education and alive," Scott said Thursday.
The university's troubles go beyond the hazing reports.
Jerry Bailey, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said Wednesday that authorities looking into Champion's death had found evidence of "financial irregularities having to do with the band and several other components of the university."
The suspected fraud is not directly related to Champion's death, Bailey said.
"It became apparent (from) some of the people that we interviewed (that) the financial irregularities had to do with the band travels and other sports and administrative components of the university," he said.
The state commissioner said it is premature to conclude that the irregularities are "systemic," adding that it is too soon to tell how much money may be involved. But, he added, "it's not just isolated" to the band program.
In a statement Wednesday, Badger -- chairman of FAMU's trustees -- said the university could not comment, "but we are cooperating fully with this and all investigations."
The governor said Thursday that he isn't advocating that Ammons resign but rather "step aside" until the investigation is complete. Ideally, this inquiry will show that whatever problems are "isolated," he added.
"My goal is to have a thorough investigation that everybody feels very comfortable that everybody cooperated with," Scott said. "Hopefully, there was nothing more (Ammons) could do."
Champions' parents did not reference Ammons specifically during an interview, which was conducted with HLN's Dr. Drew Pinsky before Scott made his recommendation. Yet the young man's father did state that it was important that there's accountability -- for both Champion's death and hazing in general.
"I think the school should be held accountable, I think that each organization should be held accountable," Robert Champion Sr. said Thursday. "We have to get down to the root of the problem, so that everyone can be responsible."
His wife, Pam Champion, said their family will champion anti-hazing education efforts and look into setting up a hotline through which people can anonymously call in reports of hazing.
She said that everyone at FAMU -- from administrators, to students, to alumni -- and other schools need to work together to stop hazing, which she called endemic to a larger cultural issue.
"If you're not going to be part of the solution, then you are part of the problem," Pam Champion said. "The idea is to (get) rid of the whole culture, the whole mind-set of it."
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• 12/16/2011 - Syria security forces hunt deserters near Jordan border
Syrian forces backed by tanks stormed Friday an area near the border with Jordan in search for army defectors, who have carried deadly attacks against regular army units, opposition activists said.
Under a barrage of shelling, the Syrian tanks attacked the Sanamine area in the dissident province of Daraa, the activists based in Beirut told DPA.
Syrian soldiers are seen at an army checkpoint in Hula, near Homs, November 4, 2011.
Photo by: Reuters
The deserters, who have joined the opposition against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, have reportedly killed more than 45 Syrian government soldiers in attacks in the past three days.
Elsewhere, Syrian troops Friday set up more checkpoints in the rebellious provinces of Homs and Hama to prevent their residents from staging weekly anti-government protests after the noon Muslim prayer, reported activists.
The opposition has called for mass demonstrations Friday dubbed "the Arab League is Killing us," to protest what it sees as the pan-Arab organization's delay in punishing al-Assad's regime for failing to accept a peace plan.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since pro-democracy protests began in mid-March, according to the United Nations.
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• 12/16/2011 - Syria security forces hunt deserters near Jordan border
Syrian forces backed by tanks stormed Friday an area near the border with Jordan in search for army defectors, who have carried deadly attacks against regular army units, opposition activists said.
Under a barrage of shelling, the Syrian tanks attacked the Sanamine area in the dissident province of Daraa, the activists based in Beirut told DPA.
Syrian soldiers are seen at an army checkpoint in Hula, near Homs, November 4, 2011.
Photo by: Reuters
The deserters, who have joined the opposition against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, have reportedly killed more than 45 Syrian government soldiers in attacks in the past three days.
Elsewhere, Syrian troops Friday set up more checkpoints in the rebellious provinces of Homs and Hama to prevent their residents from staging weekly anti-government protests after the noon Muslim prayer, reported activists.
The opposition has called for mass demonstrations Friday dubbed "the Arab League is Killing us," to protest what it sees as the pan-Arab organization's delay in punishing al-Assad's regime for failing to accept a peace plan.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since pro-democracy protests began in mid-March, according to the United Nations.
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• 12/16/2011 - Atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens dead at 62
British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.
Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer of the esophagus, Vanity Fair magazine said.
"Christopher Hitchens - the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant - died today at the age of 62," Vanity Fair said.
A heavy smoker and drinker, Hitchens cut short a book tour for his memoir "Hitch 22" last year to undergo chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer.
As a journalist, war correspondent and literary critic, Hitchens carved out a reputation for barbed repartee, scathing critiques of public figures and a fierce intelligence.
In his 2007 book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," Hitchens took on major religions with his trenchant atheism. He argued that religion was the source of all tyranny and that many of the world's evils have been done in the name of religion.
The son of a British naval officer, Hitchens studied at Oxford University and worked as literary critic for the New Statesman magazine in London before moving to New York to work as a journalist in 1981. He settled in Washington the following year, initially as correspondent for the left-wing magazine The Nation. He retained his British citizenship when he became an American citizen in 2007.
Hitchens was not one to mince words. In his book on Bill Clinton "No one left to lie to", he called the former U.S. president a "rapist" and a "con man." He once referred to Mother Teresa of Calcutta as a "fanatical Albanian dwarf."
The author of 25 books - including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and George Orwell - and countless articles and columns, Hitchens never lost his biting humor.
"CANCER ELITE"
"I'm a member of a cancer elite. I rather look down on people with lesser cancers," Hitchens said in an interview with CBS "60 Minutes" aired on March 6, 2011.
In a 2010 interview with Reuters, Hitchens dismissed criticism that he moved from left to right and helped former U.S. President George W. Bush sell the 2003 war with Iraq to the American public with what turned out to be bad intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.
"Saddam was an enemy of the civilized world and he should have been taken out a long time before," Hitchens said of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "I have no regrets about that at all."
The 2001 attacks on the United States by Islamic fundamentalists in hijacked passenger planes made Hitchens ever more critical of the role of religion in the world, and led him to appreciate the merits of American democracy.
"I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hatred in the world is religion, and organized religion," he wrote.
Hitchens is survived by his wife, Carol Blue; their daughter, Antonia; and his children from a previous marriage, Alexander and Sophia, Vanity Fair said.
In his last essay on www.vanityfair.com, dated "January 2012," Hitchens said his illness made him question the saying attributed to German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger."
A painkiller injection just before typing the article titled "Trial of the Will," Hitchens wrote, caused "numbness in the extremities, filling me with the not irrational fear that I shall lose the ability to write. Without that ability, I feel sure in advance, my 'will to live' would be hugely attenuated."
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• 12/16/2011 - Putin's approval falls to year's low: Russian poll
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's approval rating has dropped to its lowest level of the year in the first opinion poll published since his ruling party suffered an election setback and he faced the biggest protests of his 12-year rule.
A poll conducted on December 10-11 and released Friday showed 51 percent of Russians approved of how he has done his job, down from 61 percent in a November 28-29 survey and 68 percent in January, state pollster VTsIOM said.
The poll highlighted discontent and fatigue with the 59-year-old leader as he prepares for a presidential election in March which he is widely expected to win, but not as easily as seemed likely a month ago and perhaps not in the first round.
Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, suggested the decline was the result of "emotional overload" among Russians following the election and said his approval rating would swiftly recover.
"On the whole Vladimir Putin's rating remains on quite a high level, while there are fluctuations," Interfax news agency quoted Peskov as saying.
"These days are characterized by an emotional overload linked to the post-election period. But the real state of affairs indicates there are grounds to expect an increase in the premier's rating in the very near future."
Tens of thousands of people protested last Saturday to call for the rerun of the December 4 parliamentary election which opponents say was rigged to benefit the ruling United Russia party. Many protesters also said they were fed up with Putin.
Political analysts say Putin angered many Russians when he revealed a plan to switch jobs next year with President Dmitry Medvedev, the protege he steered into the Kremlin when he was barred from seeking a third term after his 2000-2008 presidency.
The decision, revealed at a September congress of United Russia, deepened feelings of disenfranchisement among Russians who believe they have no influence in a political system dominated by Putin and his party.
FIRST-ROUND VICTORY IN DOUBT?
Voters sharply reduced United Russia's parliamentary majority on December 4 but opponents say that even the party's return of 49.3 percent was inflated by fraud. International monitors also said the vote was slanted to favor United Russia.
In a marathon question-and-answer session televised live nationwide Thursday, Putin said he believed the results were in line with public opinion and made clear he would not bow to protesters' demands for a new election.
Speaking to reporters after Thursday's call-in show, Putin said the plan to make Medvedev prime minister after the presidential vote remained in place, and call United Russia's result a clear victory despite the diminished majority.
Putin had charged Medvedev with leading United Russia into the election and hinted a poor performance might make him turn to someone else to head the government if he is elected president.
The VTsIOM poll put Putin far ahead of the pack in the presidential election, with 42 percent of respondents saying they would vote for Putin. Next was Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, will 11 percent.
The poll provided no clear answer to what is shaping up as the main question about the presidential vote: Can Putin win more than 50 percent of the votes, securing victory in the first round and avoiding a run-off against the closest competitor.
While fewer than half the Russians surveyed said they would vote for Putin, some of the politicians offered as choices are not running for president, 11 percent said they would not vote and 15 percent were undecided.
Medvedev's approval rating also fell sharply in the VTsIOM poll, to 51 percent on December 10-11 from 60 percent on November 28-29 and 66 percent in January.
VTsIOM, which surveyed 1,600 people in 138 locations nationwide, and said the poll's margin of error was plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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