The August 4, 2012 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 216 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 13 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, August 4, 2025, 306 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, in 58 days. You have lived for 5,054 days, or about 121,314 hours, or about 7,278,841 minutes, or about 436,730,460 seconds.
Date: 04 August 2012
Apple took Samsung to court in a patent case with broad implications for technology innovations, and a brokerage firm’s costly software malfunction cast further doubt on high-frequency trading.
Date: 05 August 2012
By Albert R. Hunt | Bloomberg News
Albert Hunt
Despite a lack of substantive achievements since Tea Party candidates were voted into the House of Representatives in 2010, the group is seeking to expand its influence in the November elections.
Date: 04 August 2012
By Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey
Two fake news reports posted on Reuters.com on Friday claimed that Syrian rebels had withdrawn from the city of Aleppo.
Date: 05 August 2012
A young reader explains his decision not to pursue a journalism career.
Date: 04 August 2012
By Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton
BitTorrent sites are always one step ahead of the media companies.
Date: 05 August 2012
By Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey
As the battle for Aleppo goes on in the real world, supporters of the Syrian government continued a campaign to spread misinformation about the insurgency online by seizing control of a Reuters Twitter feed and posting fabricated reports.
Date: 04 August 2012
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Fleet Street refugees supply an antidote to United States journalism and its cult of balance and suffocating respectability.
Date: 05 August 2012
By John Harwood
John Harwood
Analysts are tweaking methods to better include the views of voters who only have cellphones: some hang up on those who also have landlines, others turn to the Internet.
Date: 05 August 2012
By Damien Cave and Hwaida Saad
Damien Cave
As fighting continued throughout Syria, the rebels insisted that their hostages were members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, not religious pilgrims.
Date: 04 August 2012
By Jeff Sommer
Jeff Sommer
Inaction by both the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank last week had far different effects on the markets.