June 17 - June 23, 2007
Saturday, Jun. 23
Since summertime is also three-day weekend time, Fortune's Stanley Bing offers some suggestions on keeping connected to the office without... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Jun. 22
First off, TMZ reports that our favorite jail bird heiress will be released next Tuesday. TMZ is also saying that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Lots of chatter in the media world today about an upcoming super-duper investigative story in the NYT about Rupert Murdoch.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
If you want to be technical, it's an affiliate of Istithmar, a private equity investment house controlled by the government... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Yup, it's another Maria Bartiromo story, snagged by Chris Roush at Talking Biz News. Now, Money Honey followers might remember... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bloomberg columnist Chet Currier draws some spooky parallels between 1987 and 2007: --Then, as now, stocks were riding high after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Adding to L.A.'s unquenchable thirst for attorneys are several out-of-town firms that have opened downtown and Century City outposts over... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
B-Day: The Blackstone Group jumped as much as 45 percent this morning in its first day as a publicly held... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Jun. 21
The Supreme Court voted 8-to-1 to basically make it easier for companies and their executives to get shareholder lawsuits dismissed.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Our sunglass friends at OC-based Oakley provided a pretty good clue last Friday afternoon that a takeover was in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers will vote Sunday on whether to accept a contract proposal already on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In the post-Watergate afterglow, checkbook journalism was practically a capital offense for many of us. Nowadays, of course, not paying... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
OC sports sunglass maker Oakley Inc. is such a weird company that it's a little sad to see it being... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's looking more and more as if Rupert Murdoch will win the battle for Dow Jones - and it might... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Supermarket deadline: Forget about today's noon deadline set by the United Food and Commercial Workers for the three major chains... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Jun. 20
The station will join other Webcasters in a Day of Silence next Tuesday to protest higher music royalties for Internet... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It will now direct talks on the future of the company, a move that could mean an expedited deal with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In the immortal words of Ricky Ricardo, wha' happened? What seemed like a pretty benign trading session turned downright ugly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
OK, so shares of MGM Mirage are down about 7 percent today after the 89-year-old L.A. billionaire (he turns 90... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This morning's two-hour computer failure that forced the airline to stop service for two hours doesn't seem to be causing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
At least that's the conclusion of Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang, who raised his rating on the stock to Outperform... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Strike looming?: Tomorrow is the union-imposed deadline to agree on a new contract with the three major supermarket chains, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Jun. 19
Fortune's Tim Arango reports that the L.A. billionaire is working with the Dow Jones union and "according to a source... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
For those eight or nine of you who have yet to see the Michael Moore documentary on YouTube or some... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Where else? From agents and managers. Given the box office success of the Judd Apatow comedy, "Knocked Up," Slate's Explainer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
We refer, of course, to CNBC's very own Money Honey, Maria Bartiromo, who keeps insisting that just because she's best... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's not easy to get everybody to agree on a case involving 300,000 people who supposedly overpaid for bar-review courses.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Close to recession?: That's what the often-gloomy-but-frequently-accurate UCLA Anderson forecasters are saying this morning. They expect growth in the second... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Jun. 18
In just one week, there was an 11-cent-a-gallon drop in the average price of self-serve regular in Los Angeles. It's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
He'll be replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang. Disappointing growth and the belief that Yahoo lacked a clear direction obviously took... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Andrew Puzder, CEO of Carl's Jr. parent CKE Restaurants, says those ads featuring Paris Hilton and other babes chomping on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The sour housing market has knocked the stuffing out of the normally reliable OC economy. Register columnist Jon Lansner's latest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In Mercer's annual survey on the most expensive cities in the world (courtesy of Fortune), Los Angeles slides all the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Producer Lynda Obst laments in NY magazine about Hollywood's apparent preference these days for guy executives. Yes, there are still... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
New deal for Dow Jones?: A possible joint bid by General Electric and Pearson - publisher of the Financial Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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