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Warner Bros., After Shake-Up and Shaky Summer, Digs In
The New York Times - 22 Sep 2014 02:26
Over a year into a shake-up that put Kevin Tsujihara in the chief executive's seat at Warner, the studio has yet to find its footing.
Should We Tax Away Huge Fortunes?
Forbes - 22 Sep 2014 18:04
Sen. Bernard Sanders wants to rein in the runaway billionaires. In a recent piece for The Huffington Post, the Vermont independent (and apparent presidential candidate) made the case for a progressive estate tax.
Volkswagen's Bold And Risky New Plan To Take On Audi
Business Insider - 22 Sep 2014 02:32
Volkswagen is trying to mix things up overseas in an attempt to nail down some higher profit margins. The car company is launching a luxury car designed solely for China next year. It is set to be based on Audi's A6, whi...
Alibaba IPO Becomes Biggest Ever At $25B After Additional Shares Are Sold Via Greenshoe Option
IBTimes - 22 Sep 2014 07:31
Alibaba Group Holding's initial public offering has become the world's biggest ever IPO, at $25.03 billion, after the Chinese e-commerce giant and some of its shareholders increased the deal size by 15 percent by selling...
The Wall Street Journal: EMC weighs merger, other options
Market Watch - 22 Sep 2014 04:33
Data-storage giant EMC Corp., under pressure from a shareholder activist and faced with the expected retirement of its longtime chief executive, is considering options that could include a merger deal with a rival, The W...
Rock Rejection and Finesse Failure: Fall Down 7 Times; Get Up 8
inc - 22 Sep 2014 23:51
What holds us back from our dreams more than anything else? Fear of failure. So let's tackle it head on. Sooner or later you're going to fail. In fact, you may fail over and over. The key is to fail forward, where the pa...
3 Ways Content Marketers Can Integrate with Wearables
inc - 22 Sep 2014 19:20
Dressing up content marketing for the wearable era is a necessity.
iOS 8: The Best Apple Keyboard Replacements
Forbes - 22 Sep 2014 16:35
What are the best keyboards on iOS 8? I take a look at the early front runners.
3 Innovators on Making a Profit While Changing the World
inc - 22 Sep 2014 11:30
Zady's Mazine Bdat, Life Is Good's Bert Jacobs, and the Container Store's Kip Tindell explain why 'conscious capitalism' isn't an oxymoron.
A group's opposition to a possible gas tax increase gets no traction
L.A. Times - 22 Sep 2014 05:30
With gasoline prices dropping in California, a business coalition may have a tough time winning public support for a campaign to delay the next phase of a state program to combat climate change.
Russian VC landscape shifts away from a 'quick returns' mentality, as investment dwindles
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2014 04:15
Venture investment volumes in Russia fell by 9 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) as the number of completed deals increased by 32 percent in Q2 2014.
CEO At Climate March Calls For Carbon Tax
Forbes - 22 Sep 2014 03:52
The Peoples Climate March made for quite a weekend. Saturday evening I was at a rooftop party, where somebody from he Union of Concerned Scientists was chiding me about the amount of climate change denial on forbes.co...
Inspiring Leaders: Their Innovative Solutions to Social Challenges
inc - 22 Sep 2014 03:42
The Clinton Global Citizen Awards recognizes business, non-profit and philanthropic leaders who are tackling some of the world's most pressing social problems. These are some of this year's winners.
BARRON'S: Bank Of America Shares Are Going To $25 (BAC)
Business Insider - 22 Sep 2014 02:51
Bank of America shares are going to $25. On Friday, the stock closed at $16.95. In this weekend's edition of Barron's, Jack Hough writes that over the next three years, as penalties from the financial crisis that have ...
Bank of America shares to rise 50 percent in three years: Barron's
Reuters - 22 Sep 2014 02:09
(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp , the second-largest U.S. bank by total assets, could see its shares climb 50 percent over the next three years, Barron's financial newspaper said on Sunday.
Welcome to the strange, upside-down world of Yahoo after the Alibaba IPO
Venture Beat - 22 Sep 2014 01:05
One of the major beneficiaries of this week’s initial public offering of Alibaba stock is Yahoo, which owns 401 million shares of the Chinese e-commerce giant. Beneficiary, that is, in a purely financial sense. In a st...
Interesting December Stock Options for MRK
Forbes - 22 Sep 2014 18:54
Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Merck & Co., Inc (NYSE: MRK). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one inter...
Why Ordinary People Bear Economic Risks and Donald Trump Doesn't
The Huffington Post - 22 Sep 2014 00:18Is Home Depot Safe From Future Cyber Threats?
Bidness etc. - 22 Sep 2014 23:58
Home Depot Inc. (HD) has uncovered that the data breach it faced affected 56 million payment cards.
The Atlantic Pulls the Plug on The Wire
inc - 22 Sep 2014 23:57
Stepping back from a major digital initiative, the company will integrate its news and culture site, The Wire, into its main website.
Number Of Homeless School Children On Rise, But Stats May Underestimate True Picture
The Huffington Post - 22 Sep 2014 23:56Our Top 10 Favorite Peter Thiel Quotes
inc - 22 Sep 2014 23:56
The entrepreneur and Silicon Valley billionaire is notoriously open about his views.