Citgroup executives, faced with a plunging share price, began weighing the possibility of auctioning off pieces of the financial giant or even selling the company outright, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation.
Read the article: Report: Citigroup weighs potential sale
US bank Citigroup has announced plans for about 52,000 new job cuts, on top of 23,000 cuts already made this year.
Read the article: Citigroup job cull to hit 75,000
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world – our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
To those who would tear the world down – we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security – we support you.
Read the article: Full text: Obama’s victory speech
While many of the world’s best business brains are exercising themselves over the current global banking and equities crisis, there is another issue which has the potential to dominate our lives far more in the longer term — energy.
Read the article: The future of energy – CNN.com
A new feature introduced today in Gmail allows free voice and video chat right from within Gmail. Nice!
Read the article: Official Google Blog: Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail
India is celebrating the arrival of its Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft at the Moon.
Read the article: Indian satellite orbiting Moon
If you like the Chrome UI but love Adblock Plus, here is how-to get the best of both worlds! Via lifehacker
Read the article: Google Chrome: Turn Firefox into a Google Chrome Clone
Free, open-source image processing app Qtpfsgui takes in groups of standard digital camera shots of the same scene or object and runs them through a high dynamic range imaging filter, creating striking images with more depth of color.
Read the article: Qtpfsgui Makes Standard Digicam Shots More Vibrant
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free online service.
Read the article: Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots
Nothing causes as much anxiety in a family as when someone falls sick. Nearly 65% of India’s poor get into debt and 1% fall below the poverty line each year because of illness, according to National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) 2004. The answer, of course, is health insurance, but only 6% of India’s workers have it.
Read the article: Finally, a lifeline for India’s poor