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Phone-hacking: Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - liveTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:11PMRolling coverage of all the day's developments as Rupert Murdoch, his son James and Rebekah Brooks face MPs' questions over phone hacking 8.12am: BSkyB haven't yet launched Sky Select Committees as a premium pay channel, but there would be a lot of us who would willing to pay good money to watch Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks go through the wringer this afternoon. In one paper ...

What Debt to Pay Off First, from Suze OrmanTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:09PMCar loans, student loans, home loans, small business loans - personal finance expert Suze Orman tells us which loan we should always try to pay off first, and why.

Republican to introduce derivatives reform billsTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:07PMA key Republican lawmaker on Tuesday said he planned to introduce legislation by September that will seek to make changes to the derivatives piece of the sweeping Dodd-Frank Act, seeking to limit costs for smaller companies.

Mortgage lending the old-fashioned wayTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:59PMMARYANN HAGGERTY The Washington Post WASHINGTON James Didden's bank has never sold a mortgage. Not to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. Not as part of a federally insured package. And definitely not to Wall Street. "We like what we do; we like to follow through," said Didden, president of National Capital Bank, which has operated in the Capitol Hill neighborhood since 1889. Although about 90 percent of ...

Sal Khan, teacher to the worldTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:52PMby Chris Kenrick Can a hedge-fund guy find fame, fortune and fulfillment as a social entrepreneur? Meet Salman Khan of Mountain View, an MIT-trained former hedge-fund analyst who is fast becoming -- somewhat accidentally, as he tells it -- math teacher to the world.

Special report: Banks continue robo-signingTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:39PMNEW YORK/IMMOKALEE, Florida (Reuters) - America's leading mortgage lenders vowed in March to end the dubious foreclosure practices that caused a bruising scandal last year.

City's biking industry rakes in 1.3 billionTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:33PMThat Copenhagen is a city crazy for bicycles has long been established. The city sports roughly 350 kilometres of bicycle lanes and paths, and nearly 40 percent of the population go about their daily commute on two wheels.

Mendix Upgrades Agile Business Platform For Software DevelopmentTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:29PMMendix, which delivers a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering for software development, launched version 3.0 of its Agile Business Platform. Among the new features in the upgrade are a centralized management dashboard that lets members of the development team see how the project is going, an app store where templates for software projects can be downloaded and Mendix’s recently announced ...

Stan Sheppard: Open Letter to the Rap IndustryTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:15PM*For those of us who are old enough to remember when Rap Music first hit the nation’s airwaves, I am quite sure none of us in the recording industry would have ever envisioned the effect this music would have on our culture and in our lives as a whole. This was a genre of music [...]