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	<title>Nithbank News &#187; Ken Johnstone</title>
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		<title>Groupon Board Rejects Google&#8217;s $5 Billion Offer</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/groupon-board-rejects-googles-5-billion-offer/223370/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lawee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric E. Schmidt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groupon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[initial public offering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergey Brin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No comment from either company on why Google&#8216;s $5 billion bid from Groupon was rejected. The result is that commentators are filling the vacuum with speculation and hearsay. What we know is: throughout the last week or so, the two companies held talks at the top level, involving Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Google founders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pan-European Bonds to Solve the Euro Crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship of the European Union]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finance minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Claude Juncker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[List of Prime Ministers of Luxembourg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolfgang Schäuble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in today&#8217;s Financial Times, the European sovereign debt markets continue to experience considerable stress, in spite of recent efforts by European fiscal and monetary authorities. The authors, Jean-Claude Juncker (prime minister of Luxembourg, and chairman of the Eurozone finance ministers group) and Giullio Tremonti (Finance Minister of Italy), propose that Europe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks &#8211; Cut off By Amazon Website Hosting</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/wikileaks-cut-off-by-amazon-website-hosting/223348/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Department of State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States House Committee on Homeland Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks.com, the site which has awakened the wrath of the U.S. government for leaking classified information, was removed from Amazon&#8216;s hosting Web servers yesterday. According to Senator Joe Lieberman, shortly after Amazon was questioned about its relationship with Wikileaks, the online retail company cut its ties with the whistle-blower website. (Amazon&#8217;s EC2 cloud computing platform, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Demotes Websites Delivering Bad Service?</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/google-demotes-websites-delivering-bad-service/223347/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A New York Times article on Sunday has triggered Google into action to prevent online sellers mistreating their customers, generating lots of complaints, and gaining top ranking in the search listing on the basis that &#8220;any publicity is good publicity&#8221;. The change was prompted by an article in The New York Times on Sunday about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s $33 Billion Cash Mountain &#8211; Investor Strategy Concerns Grow</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/googles-33-billion-cash-mountain-investor-strategy-concerns-grow/223319/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nithbank.com/googles-33-billion-cash-mountain-investor-strategy-concerns-grow/223319/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DoubleClick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groupon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web search engine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Wide Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google Inc, whose technology helps organize the web&#8217;s vast horde of data, now faces the equally daunting task of figuring out how to spend its growing cash mountain wisely. The Internet search leader&#8217;s $33 billion in cash and short-term investments is one of the richest war-chests in the technology sector, and is becoming increasingly visible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Groupon Deal To Go Ahead?</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/googles-groupon-deal-to-go-ahead/223320/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Mason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borrell Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groupon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oppenheimer Holdings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An internet entrepreneur yesterday was set to follow Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and become a web billionaire. Andrew Mason is on the expected to sell Google his fast-growing business Groupon for $5.3billion. The 29-year-old&#8217;s website, which is only two years old, already employs around 1,000 people and has 2.5million users in UK alone, and 3,100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret X37B SpacePlane Due Back at Vandenberg Next Week</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/secret-x37b-spaceplane-due-back-at-vandenberg-next-week/223317/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nithbank.com/secret-x37b-spaceplane-due-back-at-vandenberg-next-week/223317/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[30th Space Wing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boeing X-37]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cape Canaveral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Space Shuttle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Air Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vandenberg Air Force Base]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The US Air Force&#8217;s top-secret X-37B spacecraft is due to land sometime in the next few days at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. It will be the US&#8217; first ever autonomous re-entry and runway landing. The X-37B, a mini robotic space shuttle, launched from Cape Canaveral in April. It has completed a nine-month classified mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euro-Crisis Deepening As US Sends Envoy</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/euro-crisis-deepening-as-us-sends-envoy/223318/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerzbank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Central Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eurozone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Claude Trichet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Department of the Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Global concern about the euro zone debt crisis deepened today, as Washington sent a top U.S. Treasury envoy to Europe. G20 officials arranged a conference call to discuss the growing storm. Yesterday, investors had pushed risk premiums on Spanish and Italian government debt to record highs. However today, the bond spreads of Europe&#8217;s most southerly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google To Buy Groupon To Dominate Local Business Markets?</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/google-to-buy-groupon-to-dominate-local-business-markets/223294/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nithbank.com/google-to-buy-groupon-to-dominate-local-business-markets/223294/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Mason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DoubleClick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groupon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marissa Mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yelp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, sources &#8220;close to Google&#8221; reported that the search engine giant was about to close a deal worth around $6 billion to buy Groupon, the pioneering online discounter. It&#8217;s not necessarily in the bag yet, but could be finalized within the week. This would be a landmark acquisition for Google &#8211; its biggest beachhead into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Friday Retailers Pull Back on Discounts</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/black-friday-retailers-pull-back-on-discounts/223279/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nithbank.com/black-friday-retailers-pull-back-on-discounts/223279/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best Buy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Friday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas and holiday season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Monday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J. C. Penney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holiday shopping season kicked off to a strong start on Black Friday, with steep discounts, and &#8220;buy one, get two free&#8221; deals. Frenzied shoppers fought each other to secure  the best bargains. But Saturday saw some return to calm, as the steepest discounts were replaced by less generous offers and shoppers&#8217; exchanged their mad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North &amp; South Korea Sabre Rattling Continues While China Intervenes</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/north-south-korea-sabre-rattling-continues-while-china-intervenes/223278/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nithbank.com/north-south-korea-sabre-rattling-continues-while-china-intervenes/223278/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dai Bingguo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Sung-Hwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China sent senior diplomatic officials to Seoul in a flurry of  activity yesterday aiming to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula. They met South Korea&#8217;s foreign minister, exploring ways to ease tensions over North Korea&#8217;s artillery shelling on its southern neighbor&#8217;s island. In a statement, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that Chinese State Councillor Dai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Price Sinks Amid Growing Uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/gold-price-sinks-amid-growing-uncertainty/223273/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nithbank.com/gold-price-sinks-amid-growing-uncertainty/223273/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CME Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerzbank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futures contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Mercantile Exchange]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[December Gold Price fell fast towards $1350 yesterday as Wall Street opened and the stock market rally built a head of steam, then closed just over $1362. Investors are increasingly concerned about the growing threat of war between North and South Korea, emerging market monetary policies getting tighter, and spreading sickness of sovereign debt crises [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spain &amp; Portugal Next For Bank Bail Out?</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/spain-portugal-next-for-bank-bail-out/223268/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank bail out]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concern grew yesterday that Spain and Portugal are about to be the latest candidates for a bank bail out in Europe. Spain&#8217;s largest bank, Banco Santander, fell 3.7% to 7.53 euros in Madrid, only 3.7% above its June 2010 low. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria is Spain’s second-biggest lender and dropped 2.4 percent. Bankinter fell 2.2% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple MacBook &#8211; the &#8220;Future of Notebooks&#8221; Looks Bright?</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/apple-macbook-the-future-of-notebooks-looks-bright/223280/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ChangeWave Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computerworld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacBook Air]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;future of notebooks&#8221; is how Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the new MacBook Air range, and only a month later, that future for Apple is already off to a good start. According to ChangeWave Research this week, Apple is seeing a surge of interest in its MacBooks, thanks to the two MacBook Air lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space Station Crew Land Safe in Kazakhstan</title>
		<link>http://www.nithbank.com/space-station-crew-land-safe-in-kazakhstan/223264/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Johnstone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aleksandr Kaleri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas H. Wheelock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expedition 25]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fyodor Yurchikhin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oleg Skripochka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Walker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS), Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker (USA) and Fyodor Yurchikhin (Russia) returned safely to Earth yesterday after a 5.5-month mission. After a 3.5 hour space flight, they landed as planned in Kazakhstan at 11:46pm Eastern time in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Expedition 25 [...]]]></description>
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