Fox News snubbed MySpace, its corporate parent’s social networking site, in favor of rival Facebook this week, which says a lot about that ailing News Corp. property. Nevertheless, it continues to extend its lead in the United States: According to comScor
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So you’re Art Winkleblack, CFO of ketchup maker Heinz, and a week ago your boss, Bill Johnson, raised eyebrows by saying Campbell Soup Co. would be a “nice fit” with your company.
Now you are answering analysts questions during the quarterly earnings conference call and the boss isn’t on the line.
Finally, the question comes, from Eric […]
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It turns out there’s a whole new part of Microsoft’s $300 million attempt to become cool (beyond the “See? Look! People don’t really hate Vista, they just think they do!” ads): A huge new ad campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.
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We’ve previously noted that NBC wasn’t the only site getting a boost from the Olympics:
On August 11, Yahoo generated more traffic to its specialty site than
NBC did. Turns out that wasn’t an aberration: According to Nielsen
Online, Yahoo has beaten NB
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Asia’s sovereign wealth funds may be loaded, but they don’t need long memories to recall the big losses they’ve suffered on seemingly sure-thing investments in Wall Street’s troubled banks. So with reports that Lehman Brothers came up empty in efforts to win funds from top Chinese brokerage CITIC Securities and state-owned Korea Development Bank, it’s […]
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Two disparate events — the Beijing Olympics and the Russian invasion of Georgia — are just the latest examples of what Financial Times U.S. managing editor Chrystia Freeland calls a “new age of authoritarianism.” Apparently,
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Russia’s invasion of Georgia may not be the second coming of the Cold War, but it’s “going to have a big impact on the market.” So says our guest, Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times and author of &l
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