July 15 - July 21, 2007
Friday, Jul. 20
L.A. entrepreneur Brad Greenspan has finally presented his proposal to recapitalize Dow Jones - and ward off the offer by...
Sumner Redstone, never shy about shaking out the family laundry for the world to see, kept going after his daughter...
Just curious: Does anybody still believe the nonsense that government officials keep spewing out about securing our homeland? The nation’s...
June's jobless rate in L.A. County was 4.9 percent, up from 4.7 percent the previous month and 4.6 percent in...
Dow pulls back: So much for that 14,000 stuff. Disappointing earnings from Google, Caterpillar and Ericsson are seen as a...
Thursday, Jul. 19
He feels that DreamWorks has been treated shabbily under the ownership of Paramount Pictures, and BW's Ron Grover reports chatter...
Maybe the department store giant wil eventually get gobbled up by private equity. But so far investors aren't biting. A...
Here's an odd one. Citadel, which is a huge hedge fund manager out of Chicago, has urged the board of...
Redstone squabble: Chairman Sumner Redstone has had a major falling out with his daughter and heir apparent, Shari Redstone, that...
Wednesday, Jul. 18
Shares in the parent of Vons were up 2.7 percent in an otherwise down day on Wall Street. One logical...
As many as 1,200 copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" have been delivered to readers by DeepDiscount.com, which...
NBC will pull all Fred Thompson reruns of Law & Order if the actor/pol decides to run for president. That...
Doubtful market: This isn't looking like the day the Dow will push over the 14,000 mark. Stocks have been down...
Tuesday, Jul. 17
Remember that scene in "The Devil Wears Prada," where the mean fashion magazine editor played by Meryl Streep orders her...
That's Computer Sciences Corp., which is a monster information technology company based in El Segundo that handles the really big...
Assuming that the Dow Jones board votes tonight or tomorrow to approve the company's sale to Rupert Murdoch, the final...
It's getting to be a broken record - L.A. County saw a 32.5 percent plunge in June home sales from...
Dow 14,000: It went over the magic mark in early trading, and then retreated, and then went over again, and...
Monday, Jul. 16
It's the $5 billion offer originally made by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. As reported tonight by the WSJ, negotiators from...
This time it's over how many years would be required to reach top pay. The union wants seven years; the...
IHOP buys Applebees: It's a nearly $2 billion deal that first surfaced several weeks ago - and attracted considerable skepticism...
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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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