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Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on May 20 Below is the video making the rounds today of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer getting berated and egged while trying to address students at a university in Budapest. Gizmodo says the guy’s complaint has something to do with a Microsoft deals with the university...
An 87-year-old man denied he was a war criminal after an Australian magistrate ordered him Tuesday to face an extradition hearing on a charge that he murdered a Jewish teenager in Hungary during World War II. Former Hungarian soldier Charles Zentai, an Australian citizen, is listed by the...
EPAM, one of the largest outsourcers in Eastern Europe, was poised to go public a few months ago. Instead, they have raised $ 50 million in private equity. I have enjoyed their hospitality in Budapest a few times (though one of the attractive things about the firm is their staff is diversified...
Budapest - A hard-line nationalist government in Serbia would be a setback for the country's neighbours and the rest of Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said Tuesday. It is neither in Europe's nor the region's interest that the Serb...
Yesterday you will recall that old Monkey Boy got attacked with eggs in Budapest. Well, dear reader Brett wrote in saying you should see what the Russians did to harass Gary Kasparov, chess champion turned political dissident. They turned loose a flying dick -- a dildo with helicopter blades --...
BUDAPEST, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Representatives of Hungary and the United States signed an agreement on Tuesday on bilateral data exchange seeking to help identify terrorists, Hungarian News Agency MTI reported. The agreement - a prerequisite for Hungary's exemption from U.S. visa requirements - was...
BUDAPEST (Thomson Financial) - Hungary has revised down its half-year budget deficit forecast to 2.7 percent of GDP from 2.9 percent earlier but will maintain its full year guidance of 4 percent, finance ministry officials said on Wednesday. 'There have been favourable processes in the...
Jeremy Leggett, an energy consultant for the British government, predicts a global energy crisis within the next five years as demand grows. Speaking at a book launch in Budapest on Monday, Leggett said the crisis would stem not from a lack of oil or gas reserves, but because of infrastructural...
Archives As most of my articles roll off the front page rather quickly, I am making an archive of previous posts available here. You can also use the handy search box at the top of the page if you are looking for something particular. This site runs on an Apache web server on top of the Linux...
After the trip to London a few months ago (great time) I have taken another weekend off, this time in Budapest, to have some quality time together alone with my two teenagers, away from it all. And it was another bingo. It is so immensely great to just hang around together, no pressures, just the...
