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ATHENS, Greece ? Greece's ruling Socialists were in open revolt against their own prime minister ahead of a confidence vote Friday, a political free-for-all set off by a European bailout plan.
A week of unending drama in Athens has horrified the indebted country's European partners, spooked the markets and overshadowed the Group of 20 summit in the French resort of Cannes. The threat of a Greek default or exit from the common euro currency spooked global markets and worsened a European debt crisis that has already forced massive bailout deals for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Prime Minister George Papandreou on Thursday was forced to abandon his plan to hold a referendum on the debt deal, after markets and EU leaders reacted with hostility to the idea, sparking a global crisis as investors feared that rejection of the hard-fought agreement would force a disorderly Greek default.
Papandreou's two-year-old government has a tenuous majority of two in the 300-seat assembly, but at least four Socialist dissenters have refused to say whether they will back him.
Government ministers and senior Socialist officials continued to pile pressure on Papandreou to hold immediate talks to form a national unity government ? signaling that he may have to soon step aside even if he wins Friday's vote.
A senior Socialist lawmaker told The Associated Press he will not support the government in the midnight vote unless Papandreou pledges to resign over the weekend and start talks on a caretaker government.
The lawmaker spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive talks within the governing Socialist party.
The party revolt was triggered by Papandreou's surprising announcement Monday that he would put a European debt deal to a referendum. He withdrew the proposal Thursday in the face of fierce opposition at home and abroad.
"It is inconceivable that the government should win the confidence vote and then pretend that nothing had happened," Health Minister Andreas Loverdos wrote on his Internet blog. "Unless immediate steps are taken toward the formation of a national unity government, I will have no place in that political process."
Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos spoke by phone to an array of European officials ? German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, Jean-Claude Juncker who chairs the eurozone's 17 finance ministers, and EU's Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn ? to officially tell them the referendum is off.
He also said the aim of Friday's confidence vote was "to seek and achieve the broadest possible consensus and cooperation for the benefit of the country" ? without giving further details.
The new debt deal would give Greece a euro130 billion ($179 billion) rescue package ? on top of the euro110 billion ($152 billion) it was granted a year ago. It would also see banks write off 50 percent of the money Greece owes them, some euro100 billion ($138 billion). The goal is to reduce Greece's debts to the point where the country is able to handle its finances without relying on constant bailouts.
If the deal stalls, Greece will not get the next euro8 billion ($11 billion) installment of its loans and will probably go bankrupt before the year is out.
Papandreou has given no indication that he plans to resign shortly, although he said Thursday he was not "glued to his seat." But both his own Socialist party and the opposition conservatives are talking about elections ? though they differ strongly on the timing.
A senior Socialist lawmaker said Friday if the government wins the late-night confidence vote, it can then launch talks with the opposition conservatives on forming a caretaker administration to lead the country through the next few crucial months, when Greece must approve the bailout and thrash out debt write-off details with banks.
Christos Protopappas said elections could then be held in February or March.
"We need three or four months ... to rationalize the situation, restore calm to the country, get rid of that euro100 billion in debt and build international credibility," Protopappas, the Socialists' parliamentary spokesman, told state-run NET radio. "Then we can get back at each others' throats for a month with elections ? at that point everyone will be able to wait for us."
The conservatives don't want to wait. New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras insisted Thursday that Papandreou has to go now, and demanded elections within the next six weeks.
"Mr. Papandreou pretends that he didn't understand what I told him," he said. "I called on him to resign."
Protopappas argued that holding early elections now would drive Greece to bankruptcy.
"The electoral process takes about 40 days, and soon we be unable to pay salaries and pensions, while nobody will be able to negotiate with us on the bailout agreement," Protopappas said.
Polls indicate the Greek public is close to the breaking point after more than 20 months of harsh austerity cuts and tax hikes, and waves of general strikes and protests have often degenerated into riots. Recent opinion surveys show 90 percent of Greeks oppose Papandreou's policies and his party has just 20 percent public support.
The Socialists came to power in a landslide 2009 victory, and immediately discovered that, under the ousted conservatives, Greece had falsified financial data for years.
A labor union plans to protest outside parliament later Friday.
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Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros and Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed.
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The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 208 points Thursday after Greece scrapped a referendum on unpopular budget cuts and the European Central Bank unexpectedly cut interest rates. It was the second straight day of big gains in the stock market.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 208.43 points, or 1.8 percent, to 12,044.47.
The S&P 500 rose 23.25, or 1.9 percent, to 1,261.15.
The Nasdaq composite rose 57.99, or 2.2 percent, to 2,697.97
For the week to date:
The Dow is down 186.64, or 1.5 percent.
The S&P 500 is down 23.94, or 1.9 percent.
The Nasdaq is down 39.18, or 1.4 percent.
For the year to date:
The Dow is up 466.96, or 4 percent.
The S&P 500 is up 3.51, or 0.3 percent.
The Nasdaq is up 45.10, or 1.7 percent.
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DES MOINES, Iowa ? Republicans in early voting states like Iowa seem to be giving Herman Cain the benefit of the doubt for now ? but they also say they need to know more, nearly a week after the disclosure that he was accused of sexually harassing women who worked for him in the 1990s.
"It's concerning, but it's not a big deal," said Cindy Baddeloo of suburban Des Moines, one of more than two dozen undecided Republican voters interviewed in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in the days since the allegations ? which Cain has repeatedly denied ? surfaced.
"Nobody's perfect," she said.
The same for LaDonna Ryggs, chairwoman of Spartanburg County GOP in South Carolina. "You give me some substance to the questions, and then we'll talk."
With the furor over the allegations showing no signs of abating, it's an open question whether supporters of Cain's presidential campaign will stick with him, or whether the one-time long shot can increase his base of support at a time when many early state GOP activists are making up their minds.
And while the Georgia businessman topped a national poll taken this week, the new round of questions follow doubts that had already begun to form about him before he became enmeshed in this latest controversy.
"Fair or unfair, is anybody more likely to vote for Herman Cain as a result of these allegations? The answer is no," said Phil Musser, a GOP strategist unaffiliated with any campaign.
Cain was sharply critiqued by his rivals over his tax proposal during a debate in Las Vegas last month. And questions later arose over his loyalty to the GOP base's most enduring litmus test, opposition to abortion, after he said in an interview the decision was a matter of choice.
And the timing is problematic for Cain, too, just two months before the Iowa caucuses and as Cain presumably should be seeking to close the deal with undecided caucus-goers in the state.
He's not slated to return to Iowa for another two weeks, and, if he follows through, he will have made just one trip to the leadoff caucus state over the course of three months. Meanwhile, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is stepping it up here, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's gung-ho on advertising and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is hitting his stride.
Cain denied all along that he made suggestive comments to female subordinates while serving as president of the National Restaurant Association. Yet, over the past five days, he has given conflicting accounts about what, if anything, he knew about the alleged incidents as well as whether he knew about financial settlements two of his accusers reportedly received from the trade group.
He's blamed the mainstream media, liberals and Perry's campaign, which said it had nothing to do with it. A black conservative, Cain has said his race has played a factor in the turmoil.
And Friday, a lawyer for one of Cain's accusers disclosed that she alleged "several incidents of sexual harassment" in a complaint filed more than a decade ago, a fresh accusation that complicated the Republican presidential hopeful's determined bid to lay the politically explosive controversy to rest.
"As far as I can see, it wasn't any different than Bill Clinton," said New Hampshire Republican Howard Burrows, arguing Cain could survive the episode.
Likewise, none of the Iowa Republican activists interviewed at a GOP banquet in Des Moines where most of Cain's rivals spoke Friday said the allegations disqualify Cain from their support, or that he should quit the race.
"People are so much more focused on the economy," said Des Moines area Republican Jason McKibben. "They're tired of gutter politics."
Republicans nationally haven't bolted the former national restaurant chain CEO who has recently risen from obscurity to near the top of national polls with Romney.
And a new Washington Post-ABC News survey taken after the allegations emerged Sunday showed Cain and Romney running nearly even atop the field of 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls, with most Republicans dismissing the harassment allegations. Seven in 10 Republicans say reports of the allegations don't matter when it comes to picking a candidate.
But in a sign of the possible danger ahead, the poll found that Cain slipped to third place among those who see the accusations as serious, and Republican women were significantly more likely than men to say the allegations make them less apt to support the businessman.
While the questions apparently haven't struck a blow against Cain in Iowa, their persistence is giving some GOP caucus-goers pause at a critical time.
A poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers sponsored by The Des Moines Register last week showed Cain narrowly leading in Iowa.
But Cain has a smaller campaign staff in the early states than many of his rivals. And he has only visited Iowa once in more than two months, while others are aggressively trying to claim an edge in the fluid caucus campaign.
The questions aren't discouraging Iowa state Rep. Henry Rayhons from siding with Cain ? yet.
"He's got to come clean, or people are going to keep harassing him about it," said Rayhons. "The longer it hangs out there, the less likely I am to support him."
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Associated Press writers Jim Davenport in South Carolina, Phil Elliott in Iowa, Laurie Kellman in Washington and Holly Ramer in New Hampshire contributed to this report.
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Kaggle, a platform for predictive data modeling competitions, has raised $11 million in Series A financing led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. SV Angel, Yuri Milner?s Start Fund, Stanford Management Company, which invests and manages Stanford University's endowment and other financial assets, PayPal Founder Max Levchin; Google Chief Economist Hal Varian; and Applied Semantics? Co-Founder and Factual Chief Executive Officer Gil Elbaz, all participated in the round as well. Neil Rimer, partner at Index Ventures, will join Kaggle?s board of directors, and Levchin has been named chairman of the company. Kaggle?s platform for predictive modeling competitions helps companies, governments, and researchers identify solutions to some of the world's hardest data problems by posting them as competitions to a community of more than 17,000 PhD-level data scientists located around the world.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qsib4nsFE2g/
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The problem for many entrepreneurs is that there?s only one of them. Ilana Eberson, founder of The New York City Business Networking Group, wishes she had a clone to help her host the ever-growing number of networking groups she runs:
?I have really become the brand of my own business, which is a double-edged sword.?
Eberson really could use a few copies of herself. She travels to the cities where she?s launched new groups, including Sydney, Australia, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. The Business Networking Group is doing so well, it plans to continue developing branches in the?U.S. and Australia during 2012, and over the next five years, Eberson hopes to develop a presence in Southeast Asia, Israel and Europe. It?s this global domination that earned Eberson the title of Small Business Influencer Champion this year.
What?s Worked and What Hasn?t
Eberson may not have enough hours in the day to get it all done, but she strives to be hands-on at all of her events:
?I try to help all our members make great connections, and they realize that I do my best to give them value for working with us, and that I?m helping them make money and be more successful.?
Along her journey, she?s learned a few lessons the hard way. Like many networking group founders, Eberson put her group on Meetup, a mistake she now regrets:
?It has been the biggest hindrance to my business growth and has had more negative impact on my business than anything else in the last four years.?
The spammers, she says, are the downside to using the free meeting site. She has a global website in the works that will bring all the groups under one umbrella, something she wished she had done years ago.
Another lesson Eberson has learned is to value her worth. Her mentor,?Inc. Magazine?Senior Editor Norm Brodsky, has encouraged her to get paid what she?s worth and understand that, in his words, ?if you?re not making money, you?re not in business.?
If she?s not sure what to charge a client, she thinks to herself, ?What would Norm say??
?It?s been a sobering experience to struggle to put a number on the value of what I bring to business,? Eberson relates. ?We take many of our own talents for granted, and most people can?t easily put a dollar amount on what we are worth.?
She?s certainly not alone in that!
Ilana Eberson was recognized as a Small Business Influencer Champion for 2011. Read more of our Small Business Influencer Champion interviews.
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BANGKOK ? Asian stock markets fell Thursday for the fourth straight day as a European deal to bail Greece out of its financial mess appeared to be on the verge of unraveling.
Oil prices hovered above $91 per barrel, while the dollar rose against the euro but slipped against the yen.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 1 percent to 19,540.28. South Korea's Kospi lost 1.3 percent to 1,872.53 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.4 percent to 4,163.30. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia were also lower.
Japanese markets were closed for a national holiday. Mainland Chinese shares rose.
Greece's prime minister unexpectedly announced Monday that he would call a national vote on the European bailout plan that entails painful tax increases and drastic welfare cuts in exchange for massive aid to keep his debt-ridden nation solvent.
European leaders then drew a line in the sand, saying the referendum will determine whether Greece stays in the 17-nation grouping that uses the euro common currency ? and vowing Athens will not get new aid until the result is in.
"Ahead of the vote markets will remain highly nervous and risk aversion will remain elevated. Consequently risk assets are set to face further pressure," Credit Agricole CIB said in a research note.
Should Greek voters reject the austerity plan, it could lead to a messy default on the country's debt that would likely cause massive losses for banks that hold Greek bonds ? and possibly spark a wider financial crisis that could send Europe into recession.
Papandreou is scheduled to explain his stance when he meets with leaders of the Group of 20 nations at a summit in France on Thursday and Friday.
"The whole thing has become a mess and will certainly keep risk assets shackled in the short term, on the premise that there is a real possibility that Greece may vote against the revised bailout and austerity and subsequently find themselves having to fund their massive deficit," Stan Shamu of IG Markets in Melbourne said in a report.
The uncertainty about what lies ahead for the European Union ? the world's largest economic grouping ? as well as the subset of nations that use the euro common currency, hit energy stocks hard.
Hong Kong-listed PetroChina Co., the country's biggest oil and gas company, fell 2.9 percent. State-owned coal miner China Shenhua Energy lost 1.7 percent. Energy Resources of Australia was down 3.2 percent.
South Korea's LG Electronics plummeted 10.4 percent following news reports that the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker was seeking to issue new shares, Yonhap News Agency said.
Hong Kong-listed shares of Lenovo Group, a world leader in personal computer manufacturers, rose 3.6 percent a day after reporting that its profit in the first half of the year nearly doubled on strong emerging market sales.
Losses on the Hang Seng were limited ? and mainland Chinese shares rose ? following signs that China was preparing to ease monetary policy and make more money available for lending, said Linus Yip, strategist at First Shanghai securities in Hong Kong. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1 percent to 2,527.93 and the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index was 1.5 percent higher at 1,075.88.
"There is positive news coming in on credit in mainland China," he said. "This gives some encouragement to the market."
Beijing has repeatedly hiked interest rates and imposed curbs on investment to prevent runaway growth and cool inflation. But recent signs that prices were moderating have led to expectations that bank lending may be eased.
In the U.S., Wall Street ended higher after an increase in hiring by private companies helped lift stock prices.
Automatic Data Processing said company payrolls rose by 110,000 in October, more than economists had expected. ADP also revised its survey results for September higher. Investors see ADP's report as a precursor to the government's broader employment report, which is due out Friday.
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday the economy was likely to expand modestly over the next two years. But Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke cautioned that the pace of economic growth will likely be "frustratingly slow." The Fed said it would not take any more steps to help the economy for now, but it left open the possibility of more steps later.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 1.5 percent to close at 11,836.04. The Standard and Poor's 500 rose 1.6 percent to 1,237.90. The Nasdaq composite gained 1.3 percent to 2,639.98.
Benchmark crude for December delivery was down 87 cents at $91.64 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 32 cents to settle at $92.51 in New York on Wednesday.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.3686 from $1.3765 late Wednesday in New York. The dollar slipped slightly to 78.02 yen from 78.06 yen.
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PITTSBURGH -- The number of University of Pittsburgh innovations that has moved from the lab to commercialization increased by 31 percent in fiscal year 2011, resulting in 105 licenses or options to industry and two start-up companies for Pitt technologies. This increase in commercialization activity also included 37 U.S. patents that were awarded to the University in 2011 and the submission of 257 new invention disclosures by Pitt faculty, according to Pitt's Office of Technology Management (OTM).
The OTM released its annual report Oct. 12 at Pitt's 7th Annual Celebration of Innovation reception. The event celebrated OTM's 15 years in operation and honored researchers whose innovations were licensed/optioned in 2011.
More than 400 Pitt researchers submitted invention disclosures in FY 2010-11, among them was Marlin Mickle, the Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering, whose research led to the 2011 start-up company, Ortho-Tag, Inc. The company designs radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology for tracking and monitoring prosthetic joints. The tiny tags, attached to implanted prostheses, allow orthopedic doctors to obtain specific information about a joint by waving a wand over the prosthesis to capture recorded data.
Another business, LINC Design LLC, was started by Linda van Roosmalen, a former visiting professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology in Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, along with Michael Turkovich, a bioengineering doctoral student at Pitt. They developed a new barrier system to contain wheelchairs and restrain wheelchair-seated passengers when they are traveling in large accessible transit vehicles. Their technology formed the basis of LINC Design.
The launching of Ortho-Tag and LINC Design raises the total number of start-up companies established from Pitt technologies to 80 since the OTM's inception in 1996.
Other notable inventions featured in the 2011 annual report included a way to give asthma sufferers an alert to a possible attack, a better way to diagnose gastroesophageal reflux disease during infancy, and software that calculates cancer mortality risks by studying demographic, geographic, and work history.
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The OTM facilitates the development and commercialization of Pitt innovations, helping innovators patent their intellectual property, market it to potential outside partners, execute commercial licenses/options, and launch new companies.
To read OTM's FY 2010-11 annual report, visit http://www.news.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2011%20OTM%20Annual%20Report-Final.pdf
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Contact: B. Rose Huber
rhuber@pitt.edu
412-624-4356
University of Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH -- The number of University of Pittsburgh innovations that has moved from the lab to commercialization increased by 31 percent in fiscal year 2011, resulting in 105 licenses or options to industry and two start-up companies for Pitt technologies. This increase in commercialization activity also included 37 U.S. patents that were awarded to the University in 2011 and the submission of 257 new invention disclosures by Pitt faculty, according to Pitt's Office of Technology Management (OTM).
The OTM released its annual report Oct. 12 at Pitt's 7th Annual Celebration of Innovation reception. The event celebrated OTM's 15 years in operation and honored researchers whose innovations were licensed/optioned in 2011.
More than 400 Pitt researchers submitted invention disclosures in FY 2010-11, among them was Marlin Mickle, the Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering, whose research led to the 2011 start-up company, Ortho-Tag, Inc. The company designs radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology for tracking and monitoring prosthetic joints. The tiny tags, attached to implanted prostheses, allow orthopedic doctors to obtain specific information about a joint by waving a wand over the prosthesis to capture recorded data.
Another business, LINC Design LLC, was started by Linda van Roosmalen, a former visiting professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology in Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, along with Michael Turkovich, a bioengineering doctoral student at Pitt. They developed a new barrier system to contain wheelchairs and restrain wheelchair-seated passengers when they are traveling in large accessible transit vehicles. Their technology formed the basis of LINC Design.
The launching of Ortho-Tag and LINC Design raises the total number of start-up companies established from Pitt technologies to 80 since the OTM's inception in 1996.
Other notable inventions featured in the 2011 annual report included a way to give asthma sufferers an alert to a possible attack, a better way to diagnose gastroesophageal reflux disease during infancy, and software that calculates cancer mortality risks by studying demographic, geographic, and work history.
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The OTM facilitates the development and commercialization of Pitt innovations, helping innovators patent their intellectual property, market it to potential outside partners, execute commercial licenses/options, and launch new companies.
To read OTM's FY 2010-11 annual report, visit http://www.news.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2011%20OTM%20Annual%20Report-Final.pdf
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