The insider trading is considered one of the most lucrative one involving $276 million.
Mathew Martoma is charged with using non-public informationm, that he received from a doctor on the clinical trial of an Alzheimer's disease drug, to make profits.
Florida Atlantic University engineers say their technique is faster and works with low resolution images, such as those produced by standard CCTV cameras. It also solves variation problems caused by different light levels and shadows, viewing direction, pose, and facial expressions. It could even see through certain types of disguises, such as facial hair and glasses.
US President Barack Obama has made an aggressive case for imposing more taxes on the rich and criticised those opposing his 'Buffet Rule'.
She beat Russian Ekaterina Afinogenova of Russia to enter the last four of the ITF World Ranking Tennis tournament.
40 American corporations have signed a health plan, which allows sending employees abroad, including to India, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore, where they could save more than 80 per cent on the cost of medical procedures.
Sania Mirza beat Tetiana Luzhanska of Belarus to make the grade at the ITF Women's World Ranking tournament.
She beat Cory Ann Avants of USA 6-2, 6-3 in the finals of the Boca Raton Classic Women's ITF tennis tournament.
Education finance is a complex and dynamic sector. There are too many variables -- the course, the calibre of students, the universities, and the job prospects once the course is over, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
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'They should always be used in combination with social distancing and washing and other recommendations.'
The Women's Tennis Association, which has turned to Asia to grow its sport, is unclear how the International Tennis Premier League is going to pan out. 'We are still learning about it, just as the world and the media is,' said Melissa Pines, Vice-President, Asia-Pacific, on the sidelines of its new announcement to bring the season-ending BNP Paribas WTA Championships to South East Asia for the first time this year.
Stanislas Wawrinka started the run at last year's US Open, followed by a 35-year-old Federer at Melbourne Park and Rafael Nadal in Paris.
The attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is merely one in a long list of attacks on the media by extremist groups that would like to mandate what and how of free press. So, for the uninitiated, we take a stroll down recent times to see how the media and media persons have seen fearful responses to perceived transgressions.
'Serious crimes of this sort cannot be excused merely because he has a family.' P Rajendran/Rediff.com was in the courtroom last week when Mathew Martoma was sentenced to nine years in prison for insider trading.
Rafael Nadal is recovering satisfactorily from appendicitis and will continue a course of antibiotics in a bid to be fit for the remainder of the 2014 season, the World No 2's spokesman said on Thursday.
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