July 30 - August 5, 2006
Saturday, Aug. 5
Satellite slump: The two major providers, El Segundo-based DirecTV and Echo-Star, have seen a sharp delcine in the number of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Aug. 4
The July numbers show another plunge in home sales - down 15 percent from January, which is typically a slow... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It also may be cybercrook space. Sites like Santa Monica-based MySpace.com use the very popular Ajax coding to manipulate pages.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
An oil company reporting a sharp drop in quarterly earnings? It happened to L.A.-based Occidental Petroleum, the result of oil... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
That may be a drastic response to the Mel Gibson outrage - and it may be unrealistic considering that A-list... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
One way of getting a good real estate deal is going after a property that's been tainted somehow by murder,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Aug. 3
Job numbers: July's U.S. unemployment report got the markets excited because the smaller-than-expected gain in payrolls suggests that the economy... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The numbers are still not huge, but they're growing - and fast. In her MSN Money column, Liz Pulliam Weston... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's being called an "informal inquiry" into the company's past practices of granting stock options. The Calabasas Hills-based chain also... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tribune Co. management and the Chandler family are trying to resolve their differences, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
You decide: July's retail sales numbers are out and the results, well, take your pick. From Reuters: "Retailers Sweat Through... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Aug. 2
The big drug maker was cleared of responsibility for the heart attack of a 71-year-old retired construction manager who took... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has announced plans to expand the city's trade office. Running the place will be Andre... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Today's Wall Street Journal has a sobering, but not surprising, front-page overview (subscription required) on California's failed efforts to veer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Buried in Time Warner's announcement today about giving away AOL to broadband customers were second-quarter results showing that the company's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Chris Thornberg, the economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast who kept warning of a serious housing bubble, has left the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Fortune finally gets around to profiling Lions Gate Entertainment, the last of the independents. Lions Gate is known for its... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Welcome to L.A.: Time Warner took over Adelphia operations just two days ago and already there are unhappy cable customers.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Aug. 1
Local apparel companies were so freaked out last year about missing the quota cutoff for Chinese imports that they took... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
L.A. billionaire Haim Saban told lawmakers in Washington today that his involvement in an offshore tax shelter was based on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Is it just me or does the estimated flight delays due to the runway rehabbing at LAX - six minutes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The electric car can't seem to get a break. This week, the city of Pasadena is expected to surrender most... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Crisis PR types live for the kinds of disasters that face Landis and Gibson. Busoness Week Online takes a look... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
More Mel coverage: Most of the attention this morning is focused on ABC's decision to drop plans to make a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Jul. 31
Write a column about how to deal with panhandlers and you're certain to get heated responses on all sides. So... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Not that this is exactly surprising, but Oren Aviv, the new head of the Disney film studio, seems willing to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are being joined this afternoon by two-dozen CEOs to talk about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The company only says that the SEC is looking into past options practices. Most likely, it will center on whether... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
That's the word filtering through various game sites this morning - and just picked up by CNET. The buzz is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Big defense news: Both Northrop Grumman Corp.'s navigation-systems division in Woodland Hills and Wyle Laboratories Inc., a test-and-research company in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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