http://www.balancednewsblog.com Left and Right, both sides get a fair shot. Thu, 15 May 2008 22:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/cbs-buying-cnet-networks-for-18bn/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/cbs-buying-cnet-networks-for-18bn/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 19:16:42 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3879 CBS said Thursday it would buy CNET Networks for $1.8 billion in cash, marking its biggest online acquisition since hiring Quincy Smith, a former media and technology investment banker, to lead its interactive unit in late 2006. The deal came as CNET, whose assets include a popular technology-news Web site, was trying to fend off a group of activist investors seeking to take control of its board of directors.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/cbs-buying-cnet-networks-for-18bn/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/gay-marriage-allowed-in-california/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/gay-marriage-allowed-in-california/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 18:46:52 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3878 overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/gay-marriage-allowed-in-california/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/half-a-billion-dollar-note-introduced-in-zimbabwe/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/half-a-billion-dollar-note-introduced-in-zimbabwe/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 16:59:06 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3877 Zimbabwe has introduced a new half-a-billion dollar bank note in a bid to tackle cash shortages fed by rampant inflation, the central bank said on Thursday.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/half-a-billion-dollar-note-introduced-in-zimbabwe/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/china-quake-toll-may-reach-50000/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/china-quake-toll-may-reach-50000/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 16:56:51 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3876 China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/15/china-quake-toll-may-reach-50000/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/news-corp-kept-hackers-on-payroll/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/news-corp-kept-hackers-on-payroll/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 18:42:59 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3875 News Corp official testified on Tuesday that he kept two hackers on the payroll for years after one of them was accused of infiltrating the security system of rival satellite television company DISH Network Corp.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/news-corp-kept-hackers-on-payroll/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/red-cross-suggests-possible-128k-dead-in-burma/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/red-cross-suggests-possible-128k-dead-in-burma/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 18:37:57 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3874 death toll in Burma's cyclone may be between 68,833 and 127,990.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/red-cross-suggests-possible-128k-dead-in-burma/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/china-rushing-to-fix-dams-in-earthquake-zone/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/china-rushing-to-fix-dams-in-earthquake-zone/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 18:12:22 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3873 plug cracks in a dam in earthquake-hit Sichuan province but experts later said the site was safe. Meanwhile, Chinese rescuers funneled relief supplies to the epicenter of the massive earthquake that has killed thousands and that struck the country on Monday.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/14/china-rushing-to-fix-dams-in-earthquake-zone/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/hp-buying-eds-for-132bn/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/hp-buying-eds-for-132bn/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 21:49:54 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3872 Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling the dice on a $13.2 billion acquisition of technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/hp-buying-eds-for-132bn/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/myanmar-blocking-foreign-aid-workers/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/myanmar-blocking-foreign-aid-workers/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 21:32:34 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3871 barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food shipments backed up at the main airport for Myanmar's biggest city.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/myanmar-blocking-foreign-aid-workers/feed/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/british-government-predict-house-price-drop-of-10-or-more/ http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/british-government-predict-house-price-drop-of-10-or-more/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 18:37:30 +0000 R. Dows http://www.balancednewsblog.com/?p=3869 Gordon Brown’s housing minister exposed the Government's fears over the falling housing market today when she accidentally left in view a top-secret report as she walked into No 10.]]> http://www.balancednewsblog.com/2008/05/13/british-government-predict-house-price-drop-of-10-or-more/feed/