December 31 - January 6, 2007
Friday, Jan. 5
Two of the biggest events on the tech calendar each year are the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and...
Yeah, I know it's a bit of a stretch, but now that it's become the nation's third-largest automaker, Toyota seems...
That's the December median price in L.A. County, according to HomeData Corp., which assembles monthly numbers for the Business Journal....
For the television category anyway. The WSJ's Brooks Barnes looks at the past 10 years of TV winners (best drama,...
We're talking 23.3 percent of its value, or $9.17. The L.A.-based company lowered its 2007 sales growth expectations to between...
Strong jobs report: Actually, too strong to suit Wall Street. U.S. payrolls increased by 167,000 jobs last month - much...
Many of the outages appear to be on the Westside (my house included). The wires are quoting a DWP spokeswoman...
Thursday, Jan. 4
That means gas prices should follow suit over the next week or so. Oil finished today at $55.59 a barrel,...
Just when speculation about former Tribune CEO John Madigan was getting juicy, along comes word that he has left private-equity...
Shares are up 3.5 percent, most likely due to a favorable appeals court ruling. The Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant sued...
A deal could be announced by CBS CEO Les Moonves as early as next Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show,...
So what's behind Tribune Co.'s second-largest shareholder hiring buyout firm Blackstone Group as an advisor? A spokesman for the Robert...
Lukewarm sales: December was only a so-so month for many retailers - and pretty darn awful for a few. Locally,...
Wednesday, Jan. 3
The stock fell 4.3 percent, to $46.26, probably in response to today's sharp drop in oil prices. In trading on...
Robert Newman, head of motion pictures at the Bev Hills talent shop, is leaving to join Endeavor as a partner....
No need to wait - just pick up a copy of the redesigned WSJ and click onto WSJ.com. Sure, the...
It will be headlined by the opening (finally!) of a 50,000-square-foot Ralphs on the ground floor of the Market Lofts...
It seems like such a no-brainer. With the studios developing new ways to download movies and TV shows onto PCs,...
Back in business: The financial markets reopen after the long, long weekend, and they're hopping. Wall Street appears optimistic about...
Tuesday, Jan. 2
This had been in the works for more than two years, but the holdup was getting a carriage agreement with...
It's still not safe out there for homebuilders, not by a long shot. Lennar's announcement today that it will bail...
Going out over the next five years, Los Angeles County ranks second nationwide, behind Washington D.C., according to a Grubb...
That's the Los Angeles-based video Web site specializing in live, unfiltered broadcasts - and unlike YouTube or MySpace, it has...
New Yorker film critic David Denby examines whether the theater-going experience has a place in Hollywood's future - in spite...
'07 forecasts: The economy appears to be in decent shape, according to the flood of annual projections. The WSJ's survey...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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