1 EUR buys 1.4268 US dollar (USD) - The reference exchange rates are published both by electronic market information providers and on the ECB’s website shortly after the concertation procedure has been completed. Reference rates are published according to the same calendar as the TARGET system. ...

Some meme floating around the RSS is “dead.” No, don’t think so at all. Although, based on my usage of Google Reader, I might on the surface seem inclined to agree. I still fire up Google Reader daily out of habit, but more often than not, find a fair percentage of what’s in there uninteresting, don’t bother reading it...

The RSS Headline Widget at RSS / Promote has been boosted again - it now lets you pick the number of posts (from 1 to 5) to have in the widget, and whether you want article copy to be plain text (which is better for sidebar use) or full HTML (better for full page widgets). Source : FeedBlitz News (subscribe) Explore : Blogosphere, Technology, Widg...

There’s lots of talk today about how RSS is dead, and whatnot. Let me set things straight. First of all, as a practical matter, RSS has never been alive. Ask anyone other than a hard core geek (like me) what RSS is and they won’t have any earthly idea. RSS is probably the most useful tool on the internet, but regular people don’t ...

NEW DELHI: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Thursday met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and is understood to have discussed the escalating internal squabbles plaguing the party. Singh called on Bhagwat on Thursday evening and held a nearly 90-minute discussion with the RSS chief. The issues raised by senior party leader Arun Shourie and Jaswant Singh’...

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OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI) 14.7% HIGHER; reports a Q1 loss of $0.08, 3 cents better than estimates. Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 were $105.6 million vs. $99.13 million consensus. Based on current trends, the Company expects fiscal second quarter 2010 revenues will be in the range of $155 million to $170 million vs...

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow’s trading session: Before Market Opens: Economics: 8:30am ET Personal Income/Spending for July Earnings: Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) - consensus EPS $0.33 Intraday or Not Specified: Economics: 9:55am ET University of Michigan Sentiment Index for August - S...

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) 514% HIGHER; announced that it has sold 16 million shares of its position in portfolio company Clarient, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLRT) through a Clarient shelf registration on Form S-3 that was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 20, 2009. Immunomedics (Nasdaq: IMMU) 60.1% HIGHER; UCB...

UPGRADES: Goldman upgrades shares of Greenhill & Co. (NYSE: GHL) from Sell to Neutral, also boosting its price target from $65 to $75. Barclays upgrades Dollar Tree (Nasdaq: DLTR) from Equalweight to Overweight. Price target increased from $48 to $64. Wedbush Morgan also upgraded the stock from Underperform to Neutral. Cowen & Co upgrades ...