Publication: BusinessWeek

First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 Documents

Canceled TV Shows Get a Digital Afterlife

In the world of television, getting canceled doesn’t mean what it used to. The four major U.S. networks have unveiled 31 shows for the 2012-2013 season that begins this fall. Not all will survive. Among the most recent casualties: In mid-May, the short-lived ... [ Published 4 hours ago by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: DirecTV Group Inc, Netflix Inc, Derek Chang, Hulu LLC

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 Documents

JPMorgan Chase & Co

JPMorgan Gave Risk Oversight to Museum Head Who Sat on AIG Board

The three directors who oversee risk at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) (JPM) What the risk committee of the biggest U.S. lender lacks, and what the five next largest competitors have, are directors who worked at a bank or as financial risk managers. The only ... [ Published 7 hours ago by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: JPMorgan Chase & Co, James Crown, Jamie Dimon, Biggs (United States), Honeywell International Inc

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 Documents

The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Stimulus

In early May, at a suburban home in Chattanooga, Cindy Faulkner began unpacking one of several boxes, removing lingerie, blindfolds, massage oils, and dildos to display for the half dozen women gathered. Faulkner is a sales consultant with Ohio-based ... [ Published 10 hours ago by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Sex, Slavery, Babeland

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Peter Fader

Summer Reading List: The B-School Edition

It’s the time of year to curl up on a beach towel with the ol’ e-reader. While the rest of the world is kicking back and relaxing poolside, aspiring businesspeople should use those so-called lazy days of summer to catch up on reading that will better ... [ Published May 22 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Abraham Lincoln, Peter Fader, Bill George

First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

Mevio

BiteSize Planning Rebekah Brooks Movie, Hollywood Reporter Says

BiteSize Entertainment is developing a movie about Rebekah Brooks, the former head of News Corp. (NWSA) (NWSA)The project about Brooks, who has been charged with trying to cover up the tabloid phone-hacking scandal, is in its early stages of development, ... [ Published May 19 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Rebekah Brooks, Hollywood, Mevio, Nicholas Larkin, Ron Bloom

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Book Review: Steve Coll's 'Private Empire'

As objectivist statements of rational self-interest go, that one’s a lulu—up there with Margaret Thatcher’s “There is no such thing as society.” You’d expect a Big Oil chieftan to be ruthlessly profit-minded, but to the point of putting profits ahead ... [ Published May 18 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, OAO Yukos Oil Co

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Yosi Glick's Smarter Movie Recommendations

Movie recommendations suck. Or so says Yosi Glick, the founder and chief executive officer of Israeli startup Jinni. Watch a film like The Usual Suspects online, he says, and a lot of sites will recommend Se7en, another crime thriller starring Kevin Spacey. ... [ Published May 18 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Genome, Startup, Voice Recognition

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Book Review: 'The Dictator's Learning Curve,' by William Dobson

The Dictator’s Learning Curve:Inside the Global Battle for DemocracyBy William DobsonDoubleday; 352pp; $28.95$ Over the past two years, one tyrant after the next has been driven from power, if not slain, and democracy has appeared to take root in places—from ... [ Published May 18 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: William Dobson, Democracy, Gene Sharp, Dictator

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Book Review: 'Birdseye,' by Mark Kurlansky

Wherever he went, be it Montana, Peru, or remotest Newfoundland, Clarence Birdseye sampled the fare at hand. There were few limits to what he would eat—porcupine, the front half of a skunk, and “a lynx that had marinated for over a month in sherry and ... [ Published May 11 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Clarence Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky, Fergus Henderson, Patent

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Hasbro Board Games Go to the Movies

Many of today’s kids would rather slice and dice flying fruit on an iPhone than sit around a game board racing each other to buy Park Place. Brian Goldner, chief executive officer of Hasbro (HAS)Yet the real question for Hasbro, according to UBS (UBS ... [ Published May 11 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Hasbro Inc, Tim Whitby, UBS AG, Sean McGowan, Parker Brothers

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

The Biggest Art Deals of the Auction Season

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Roy Lichtenstein’s "Sleeping Girl" sold for $44.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York last night, a record for the artist, in a $266.6 million contemporary-art auction that was almost a third smaller by value than Christie’s the night ... [ Published May 10 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Roy Lichtenstein, Christie's, Bloomberg TV

First Reported May 06 2012 - Updated May 06 2012 - 1 Documents

Bits & Bytes: Movie industry fights new technology and viewers lose [Tulsa World, Okla.]

May 06-- Last week I did a pretty thorough search and discovered the movie Thor, which is less than a year old and likely to be sought out as one of the characters is the bad guy in "The Avengers," can't be rented or streamed online.That wasn't just a ... [ Published May 06 2012 by BusinessWeek ]

Entities: Tulsa, Android, National Geographic Society, Netflix Inc

Quotes

Health activist Kathy Freston on her book, "The Lean: A Revolutionary and Simple 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss." TONIGHT on Charlie Rose @ 7p & 10p ET

Author Kathy Freston: Fiber Consistently Helps Lose Weight [BusinessWeek - May 04 2012]

"Why should Target facilitate the revenues of what is now a major competitor?" asked Michael Keara, an analyst who follows Target for Morningstar in Chicago

Target to stop selling Kindles from rival Amazon [Star Tribune, Minneapolis] [BusinessWeek - May 03 2012]

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