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Can Texts Inspire Literature?
Category: Money, News | Listed: February 25, 2010
The Observer's John Koblin announces that former New Yorker editor and current contract writer Dana Goodyear is launching a site based on her 2008 story about Japanese texting literature. Ms. Goodyear...
How a Sale by Zuckerman Could Buy Murdoch’s Backing for Senate
Category: Finance | Listed: February 24, 2010
Mort Zuckerman would like to have more say in government. Rupert Murdoch would like to stop losing money on the New York Post. Their problems may have a common solution. Could ...
The New Quiz Show Scandal: FCC Investigates Fox’s ‘Our Little Genius’
Category: Finance | Listed: February 22, 2010
The FCC is investigating whether producers for the Fox trivia game show fed answers to young contestants. If so, it would be a near-inevitable consequence of the way televised ...
Bye-Bye, Baby
Category: Money, News | Listed: February 8, 2010
For the past year, I’ve explored in this column the day-to-day challenges of running a small business. Now I’m tackling something that’s always tricky for an entrepreneur: stepping away and hand...
Shifting Gears in the NY Times: Toyota’s Perfection Problem
Category: Money, News | Listed: February 7, 2010
Shifting Gears is in today’s New York Times, with an opinion piece about Toyota’s epic recall woes. My verdict? Toyota will never really recover from this debacle. How can it when the brand’s en...
The Future of NUMMI
Category: Money, News | Listed: September 27, 2009
New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) is one of those mytho-poetic phenomena in the U.S. manufacturing sector: a car plant, developed as a cooperative venture between General Motors (MTLQQ) and ...
Cadbury Switches Positions Yet Again
Category: Money, News | Listed: September 27, 2009
The other day I characterized Cadbury's ever-changing, contradictory positions on Kraft's (KFT) bid for the company as "comical." Today, the whole thing has become a full-on farce involving not only C...
Credit Card Companies’ Biggest Lie
Category: Money, News | Listed: September 27, 2009
Of all the insults that the consumer banking industry has hurled at the public's intelligence in the fight over noxious fees—29 percent credit card interest, arbitrary rate hikes, and the rest of it...
It’s Official: America Loves Online Banking
Category: Banking | Listed: September 27, 2009
Americans may not always love their bank, but online banking is the most popular form of banking, according to a new survey by the American Bankers Association....
Banks Win Round One in Fight
Category: Banking | Listed: September 27, 2009
Top Democrats drop provision to let proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency establish 'plain vanilla' products. Business says thanks but still wants bill dead....
