Anthony Jones – Celebrity News Service Reporter Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN Entertainment) – Bravo was the first to put the spotlight on “Project Runway” and has made us tune in for every cut on “Top Chef.” Now, the network really sings as it puts together 12 up-and-coming songwriters looking to score the next [...]

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Seoul, South Korea (AHN) – South Korea’s national security policy-making institute said on Tuesday that North Korean hackers are getting more sophisticated after paralyzing the computer network of a local agricultural cooperative bank and will next target government websites. Nam Sung-wook of the Institute for National Security Strategy [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Broomfield, CO, United States (AHN) – Level 3 Communications on Monday announced that it would acquire Global Crossing in a $3 billion agreement. The Colorado-based Internet provider will enter into a stock-for-stock transaction that values Global Crossing shares at $23.04 and assumes $1.1 billion of debt. The sale will [...]

By 2020, there will be around 50 billion devices connected to a wireless network – and a huge chunk of those devices will be able to drastically reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact by virtue of being connected to the Internet, said telecom giant Ericsson’s chief executive Hans Vestberg. That’s because having all those devices [...]

ProPublica Staff United States (ProPublica) – by Marian Wang A provision within the financial reform bill that would regulate debit card transaction fees could be postponed by a year or two following fierce objections from banks. Specifically, banks large and small are objecting to a Fed proposal to limit what are known as interchange fees [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) – Nearly half of Israel’s population was left without cellphone service today when one of the country’s three carrier services collapsed. An estimated three million or 44 percent of the country’s population are unable to use their mobile phones. A statement on Cellcom’s website, signed [...]

(Sports Network) – The Memphis Grizzlies look to extend their season high winning streak to four games tonight, as they pay a visit to the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena. Memphis won all t… View full post on All Stories

(Sports Network) – The Memphis Grizzlies look to extend their season high winning streak to four games tonight, as they pay a visit to the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena. Memphis won all t… View full post on All Stories

Lawrence Mijares – AHN News Contributor Melbourne, Australia (AHN) – As she prepared to meet Sunday with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton for a review of U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard expressed willingness to expand Australia’s military partnership with the U.S. in the region. In an interview [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Atlanta, GA, United States (AHN) – CNN has fired one their most outspoken anchors. Rick Sanchez was terminated from his position at the network cable news source Friday, a day after he made controversial comments about Jews and John Stewart during a radio interview. CNN released a brief [...]

ORIGIN OF MERCHANT BANKING  Merchant banks, now so called, are in fact the original “banks”. These were invented in the middle Ages by Italian grain merchants. As the Lombardy merchants and bankers grew in stature on the back of the Lombard plains cereal crops many of the displaced Jews who had fled persecution in Spain [...]