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The amount such a levy would raise is unclear. If the Germans use the U.S. plan - which calls for a tax of 0.15% on liabilities at about 50 banks and other financial institutions - Germany could raise as much as $12 billion a year. Would that be enough to protect banks...
But unlike previous Facebook mishaps, such as the recent spamming of private messages to users in America, these profile updates were no mistake. Tens of thousands of Facebook users in the South American nation took down their pictures to commemorate the estimated 30,000 people who were disappeared during the...
Facebook was unable to quantify the number of users in Argentina who had taken down their photos to join the campaign, but more than 36,000 Facebook users had signed up for the virtual event "Photoless for the Missing" by day's end. (See the top 10 tech trends for...
The carbon tax had been plagued with troubles from the start - including the near refusal by rightist legislators to pass it until the Elysée whipped them into line in November 2009. A month later - just days before it was set to take effect - France's Constitutional Council struck...
How likely is that to happen? Not very, according to media reports in France. French newspapers and television news channels said Sarkozy's address meant the carbon tax was "dead and buried" - most of all because of the high improbability of all 27 E.U. members voting in an identical measure...