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...
Friday, Jun. 22
First off, TMZ reports that our favorite jail bird heiress will be released next Tuesday. TMZ is also saying that...
Lots of chatter in the media world today about an upcoming super-duper investigative story in the NYT about Rupert Murdoch....
If you want to be technical, it's an affiliate of Istithmar, a private equity investment house controlled by the government...
Yup, it's another Maria Bartiromo story, snagged by Chris Roush at Talking Biz News. Now, Money Honey followers might remember...
Bloomberg columnist Chet Currier draws some spooky parallels between 1987 and 2007: --Then, as now, stocks were riding high after...
Adding to L.A.'s unquenchable thirst for attorneys are several out-of-town firms that have opened downtown and Century City outposts over...
B-Day: The Blackstone Group jumped as much as 45 percent this morning in its first day as a publicly held...
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....
Our sunglass friends at OC-based Oakley provided a pretty good clue last Friday afternoon that a takeover was in the...
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers will vote Sunday on whether to accept a contract proposal already on...
In the post-Watergate afterglow, checkbook journalism was practically a capital offense for many of us. Nowadays, of course, not paying...
OC sports sunglass maker Oakley Inc. is such a weird company that it's a little sad to see it being...
It's looking more and more as if Rupert Murdoch will win the battle for Dow Jones - and it might...
Supermarket deadline: Forget about today's noon deadline set by the United Food and Commercial Workers for the three major chains...
Wednesday, Jun. 20
The station will join other Webcasters in a Day of Silence next Tuesday to protest higher music royalties for Internet...
It will now direct talks on the future of the company, a move that could mean an expedited deal with...
In the immortal words of Ricky Ricardo, wha' happened? What seemed like a pretty benign trading session turned downright ugly...
OK, so shares of MGM Mirage are down about 7 percent today after the 89-year-old L.A. billionaire (he turns 90...
This morning's two-hour computer failure that forced the airline to stop service for two hours doesn't seem to be causing...
At least that's the conclusion of Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang, who raised his rating on the stock to Outperform...
Strike looming?: Tomorrow is the union-imposed deadline to agree on a new contract with the three major supermarket chains, and...
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...
For those eight or nine of you who have yet to see the Michael Moore documentary on YouTube or some...
Where else? From agents and managers. Given the box office success of the Judd Apatow comedy, "Knocked Up," Slate's Explainer...
We refer, of course, to CNBC's very own Money Honey, Maria Bartiromo, who keeps insisting that just because she's best...
It's not easy to get everybody to agree on a case involving 300,000 people who supposedly overpaid for bar-review courses....
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...
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...
He'll be replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang. Disappointing growth and the belief that Yahoo lacked a clear direction obviously took...
Andrew Puzder, CEO of Carl's Jr. parent CKE Restaurants, says those ads featuring Paris Hilton and other babes chomping on...
The sour housing market has knocked the stuffing out of the normally reliable OC economy. Register columnist Jon Lansner's latest...
In Mercer's annual survey on the most expensive cities in the world (courtesy of Fortune), Los Angeles slides all the...
Producer Lynda Obst laments in NY magazine about Hollywood's apparent preference these days for guy executives. Yes, there are still...
New deal for Dow Jones?: A possible joint bid by General Electric and Pearson - publisher of the Financial Times...
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