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A 102% Tax Rate? Believe It

This Year’s Super Bowl Commercials…Anticlimactic?

Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Everyone knows the best part of the Super Bowl – the commercials. One day a year Americans skip the fast-forward button on their DVRs and direct their gaze on the television, assiduously watching every second of these highly-anticipated commercials. The annual ritual of watching Super Bowl ads [...]

Facebook’s IPO: What Will Change and What Won’t

Once Facebook goes public, the party’s over, right?

For Facebook ‘Hacker Way’ is way of life

Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a “hacker”.For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains …

Shocked? Not! Not many surprises in Super Bowl ads

If you’re expecting to be shocked by all the Super Bowl ads, don’t hold your breath: There won’t be many surprises.About 20 of the roughly 36 Super Bowl advertisers put their TV commercials online before …

Russia admits brief cut of gas supplies to Europe

Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom natural gas giant acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it had briefly reduced gas supplies to Europe amid a spell of extreme cold.Gazprom deputy chief Andrey …

Palestinians call for PM’s fall over taxes

Hundreds of Palestinian protesters have called for their prime minister’s resignation over recent tax and price increases.Saturday’s protest marked the first time a sizable crowd demanded that Salam Fayyad …

Report: Monti says Italy a “safe place”

Italy is now a “safe place” amid market turbulence, Premier Mario Monti said in an interview published Saturday, pressing for Europe to turn its political energy to generating growth rather than …

Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site

A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous on Saturday said it had attacked the Swedish government’s website, bringing it down for periods of time by overloading it with traffic.CyberForce used Twitter …

Obama pressures Congress on housing

President Barack Obama is rallying support for his plan to expand government assistance to homeowners, pressuring Congress to help lower lending rates for millions of strapped homeowners.Obama, in his …

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