Fannie Requests Nearly $4.6 Billion from Gov’t for 4Q

Published By StarCityNews On Wednesday, February 29th 2012. Under Business

Mortgage giant Fannie Mae claims it lost money in its fourth quarter and is asking the federal government for $4.57 billion in aid to cover its net worth deficit. Fannie and sibling company Freddie Mac buy home loans from banks and other lenders, package them with bonds with a guarantee against ... Read More

Taylor Swift Shocks Cancer Patient With Invitation

Published By StarCityNews On Monday, February 27th 2012. Under Entertainment Tags: Academy of Country Music Awards, acm awards, Facebook, facebook campaign, kevin mcguire, New Jersey, new jersey teenagaer, somerdale, Taylor Swift, victoria mcguire

A lot of guys would love to go on a date with Taylor Swift. So, what makes eighteen-year-old Kevin McGuire from Somerdale, New Jersey any different from the plethora of Swift's would-be suitors? McGuire, who asked Swift recently via Facebook to be his prom date in June, is a ... Read More

Global Warming May Possibly Affect Body Size

Published By StarCityNews On Friday, February 24th 2012. Under Science Tags: birds, Florida Museum of Natural History, fossils, horses, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Sifrhippus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wyoming

American researchers said that more than 50 million years ago, our beautiful planet, Earth was a hotter place than it is now and horses with the size of pet cats first appeared in the forests of North America. On Thursday, the US researchers said that the earliest ... Read More

Sony’s GIRL Game Design Competition 2012 Is Now Open For Submission

Published By StarCityNews On Thursday, February 23rd 2012. Under Business Tags: Game Design Competition, Gamers in Real Life, GIRL, San Diego, scholarship, SOE, Sony Online Entertainment

On Thursday, Sony’s game development and game publishing division, “Sony Online Entertainment” (SOE) announced that it is now accepting student applications and submissions for it’s this year’s Gamers in Real Life (GIRL) Game Design Competition. On the fifth anniversary, the GIRL Scholarship, which main ... Read More

iPhone Gets Live Local TV, Courtesy Startup

Published By StarCityNews On Thursday, February 23rd 2012. Under Technology Tags: Aereo, Channels, Live TV, Smartphones

The local live TV has now been sent to iPads and iPhones. This became possible by the service launched by startup backed by a multi billionaire Barry Diller. However it is being feared that the service may turn out to be short lived ... Read More