September 10 - September 16, 2006
Saturday, Sep. 16
In case you're focused on today's college games, Time Warner Cable, as promised, cut off the NFL Network from its...
Friday, Sep. 15
For more than a week now, Hewlett-Packard's Patricia Dunn has been pilloried on all fronts for her handling of the...
It seems a little premature since investigators don't even know who processed the spinach suspected of carrying the E. coli...
The August jobless rate in L.A. County was a seasonally adjusted 4.8 percent, up from 4.5 percent in July but...
Satellite swap: Remember when Rupert Murdoch seemed almost obsessed with buying a U.S. satellite service that would serve as a...
Thursday, Sep. 14
The numbers are especially big at the Port of Los Angeles, which saw a 21.4 percent increase in August traffic...
Let's not underestimate Steve Jobs and Apple - certainly Business Week tech guys Cliff Edwards and Steve Wildstrom don't. But...
The Pasadena-based dating service (I know they want to be called a "relationship service") was among several online sites mentioned...
The lead bidder in the court-supervised bankruptcy sale is a Woodland Hills-based liquidating firm called Great American Group. That could...
August revenue for the parent company of the Los Angeles Times fell 1.6 percent from a year earlier. Ad revenue...
Bold move: It's one thing for a bunch of civic leaders to sign off on a meaningless letter of protest...
Wednesday, Sep. 13
The 41-acre Carson site that had been the automaker's former North American headquarters is being sold to Kearny Real Estate...
You don't need a degree in economics to figure out that when home sales fall, apartment rentals are likely to...
Some talk is starting to percolate in the music/media world about litigation against YouTube and MySpace over the posting of...
Or so says a spokesman for the oil company this morning, according to Reuters. About 1,000 barrels of a refined...
Shares of the L.A.-based aerospace company are down a little this morning - no doubt influenced by a less-than-glowing Corporate...
H-P indictments: Everyone is all over the remarks made by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer that investigators have "sufficient evidence...
Tuesday, Sep. 12
Rupert Murdoch is getting raves today with News Corp.'s purchase of a controlling stake in Jamba, a company that develops...
There's nothing like a steep drop in oil prices and a strong showing by McDonald's to get Wall Street excited....
The L.A.-based company will build a high-speed wireless data network designed to allow New York cops and firefighters to better...
As expected, Steve Jobs this morning introduced a book-sized device that can be attached to a television and receive programs...
So much for retiring in December. Angelo Mozilo said this morning that he has been working with the board of...
Venturing too far: Nifty LAT story about how a little-known Century City venture capital firm called International Technology University has...
Patricia Dunn will resign from her post at Hewlett-Packard - but not until next year. H-P CEO Mark Hurd takes...
Monday, Sep. 11
So much for all the grief the local hotels went through after 9/11, when nobody wanted to travel. The July...
That's the threat anyway. The airline is ticked off over a scene in the network's "Path to 9/11" docudrama that...
The Energy Department's weekly survey is just out and the average price of a gallon of a self-serve regular in...
The Hewlett-Packard board won't resume their deliberations on what to do with Chairwoman Patricia Dunn until 6 p.m. The WSJ,...
You're a union organizer trying to improve the conditions of janitors working at NBC Studios and Universal Citywalk. You hold...
MGA Entertainment, based in Van Nuys and known mainly for being the maker of Bratz dolls, is buying the Little...
Very slow morning, what with all the 9/11 coverage. Speaking of which: Money angles: It's pretty tough to get away...
Sunday, Sep. 10
9/11 economy: Remember all those predictions that in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks the nation's economy would become more...
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