March 25 - March 31, 2007
Friday, Mar. 30
The full Tribune board will be meeting this weekend to review the competing offers from L.A. billionaires Broad/Burkle and Chicago...
Just imagine, for a moment, that Uncle Ben, the rice guy, got a promotion - to chairman of the board....
Ever wonder about those big shot members of Sherwood Oaks Country Club, that glorious bit of real estate in Thousand...
Tribune update: There are no details of last night's revised offer by Broad and Burkle for the Chicago-based parent of...
Thursday, Mar. 29
The L.A. billionaires' revised bid is $8.2 billion, or $34-a-share, which includes $500 million in equity. Zell's bid was $33-a-share,...
Still quite a bit of chatter today about the Marie Antoinette-ish tactics of Circuit City CEO Philip Schoonover, who along...
It's not exactly a huge deal, but Pacific Title & Art Studio, one of Hollywood's earliest production houses, is being...
The annual U.S. News survey comes out tomorrow, but law bloggers already have the numbers. Among the locals, there's very...
Just don't tell our old friend Barry Diller, who still manages to make life interesting for us know-nothing, low-wage scribes....
Oh brother, yet another panel on the future of newspapers. Must they? Many of the usual suspects were on hand...
Tribune update: The betting still favors a Sam Zell acquisition by week's end, but the NYT reports that Tribune was...
Wednesday, Mar. 28
It could very well turn out to be News Corp.'s 2005 purchase of MySpace for $580 million (sorry Viacom). Pali...
Yesterday's early drop was trimmed quite a bit by the close, but today's naysaying was just too much - a...
The big story in the homebuilding biz involves a federal investigation into the way Beazer Homes helped cut lending deals...
OK, you're running a pretty lousy company in a very tough industry and your shareholders are demanding that you do...
Wall Street jitters: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress this morning that the economy will keep growing - moderately -...
Tuesday, Mar. 27
Funny what a couple of transposed digits will do for a media giant's respectability. News Corp.'s proxy lists a phone...
This might as well be an L.A. government holiday because many of the higher-ups were on Capitol Hill today lobbying...
The $142 million acquisition by Internet giant Intuit seemed all ready to go and then, Bam!, it's kaput. Electronic Clearing...
That's what Bloomberg News is reporting this morning - and it sounds a little more definitive than stories earlier this...
Housing jitters: Homebuilder Lennar Corp., which has a big Socal presence, this morning reported a 73 percent drop in first-quarter...
Monday, Mar. 26
The latest iteration of the storied magazine - a weekend newspaper supplement that never gained much of a following -...
That's what the WSJ just posted, based on efforts by Morgan Stanley and Barclay's - two of the subprimer's biggest...
Now that downtown has added a few thousand more residents to the mix, film companies don't have the place to...
Strike vote authorized: As expected, workers for Albertsons voted to give union officials the authority to call a strike. No...
Sunday, Mar. 25
Eli Broad and Ron Burkle have just made life a little more uncomfortable for the Tribune boys who seem inclined...
Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not predicting the future. But sometimes it can be instructive to look for potential...
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