Image via CrunchBase It sounds like a broken record, another day, another new high for Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock. After crossing $400 on December 23, $500 on February 13, and $550 on March 12, Apple touched the $600 mark in pre-market trading this morning— though it pulled back in early regular trading. [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 15:31

VideoHBO announced the sudden cancellation of Luck, the horseracing drama produced by David Milch and Michael Mann and starring Dustin Hoffman, after a third horse died during the production of the show's second season. “It is with heartbreak that executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 01:09

Image via Wikipedia Even as unemployment remains stubbornly above 8 percent, there's one sector of the economy that is showing a rebound: manufacturing. While the easy jobs are gone, there's one skill applicants can learn that will get them an offer from any manufacturer across the country -- and most likely, around [...]

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 16:10

Leaving Fox News has turned out to be a pretty good business move for Glenn Beck. By the end of this year, 18 months after he got out of the 24-hour cable news business and struck out on his own as an internet broadcasting pioneer, Beck will have doubled the revenues of his company, Mercury Radio Arts, from $40 million to $80 million, according to [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:00

I think the folks at ABC Daytime--or what's left of it--are scared to death to announce the end of "General Hospital." But today they announced a start date for Katie Couric's daytime talk show--September 10th at 3pm Eastern. And unless there's some change in the time-space continuum, that's when "General [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 22:07

  Image by Getty Images via @daylife By Andrew Kulha, Bleacher Report The New York Knicks need to do everything they can to get former Utah Jazz head man Jerry Sloan to coach their team now that Mike D'Antoni has resigned. It makes sense. He's a terrific coach, and there's a rumor floating out there that suggests [...]

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 01:08

Lloyd Blankfein Jamie Dimon Pretty much anyone tooling in the PR biz is keyed in on this latest chapter of Goldman Sachs' extended trial in the court of public opinion. James Gorman What is it about this particular company that compels the media, regulators, legislators and general public to pounce on it at every [...]

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 02:56

VideoA friend sent me a link to a YouTube video of author Neil Gaiman giving his opinion of online piracy.  He says that in the early days of the web he was staunchly against it, but with time he’s come around to believing that far from being a bad practice, [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 16:20

You had better not be watching what Rick Santorum thinks you're watching. (Image via Wikipedia) The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum’s campaign website—his pledge to aggressively prosecute those who produce and distribute pornography. Santorum avers that “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 19:28

Who is really to blame for the high price of gasoline? You might be surprised.

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 18:20