Sunday, February 22, 2009

Money talks; in sports, money whines - San Jose Mercury News

Money talks; in sports, money whines - San Jose Mercury News
Pity the poor billionaires. In the business world, it's the tongue-in-cheek articles, such as the one in the New York Times, about the sheer impossibility of living on $500,000 in Manhattan. And it's the cockamamie explanations that without bonuses

Former prosecutor named top SEC enforcer - Yahoo News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. federal prosecutor Robert Khuzami will take over as the Securities and Exchange Commission's director of enforcement, the SEC said on Thursday. Khuzami, a federal prosecutor for 11 years, will have the job of

Friday eye-opener: What are Brendan Jones' chances against Tiger? - USA Today Blogs
We wake up to find that the water is a little cleaner, the sky is a little bluer, our food tastes better and the birds are singing. The greatest golfer on the planet is coming back and we have to wait less than a week to see him in the WGC Accenture

Yahoo! Buzz Digs 'Diggnation' Format - Broadcasting Cable
When Twentieth Television announced last month that it was developing a new syndicated series based on Yahoo Buzz, the search engine's social news site, the message boards at Web TV network Revision3 began to buzz. That's because the proposed show, a

Charlie Sheen & Wife Ready for Saturday Baby Shower - People
"[She is] looking forward to her shower," says rep Stan Rosenfield of the first-time mom, who is due to give birth to twin boys in April. Brooke, 31, was admitted to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Tuesday morning while Sheen, 43, was in Las Vegas on

Turn Now Ranked Among comScore's Top 10 Advertising Networks - Yahoo Finance
Dra m atic G r o wth C o ntinu e s as A d v e rtisers Sh ift Bu d get to Perfor m ance-b a se d Advert i s ing REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Turn Inc., the smart market for online advertising, today announced it has achieved an

Germany: EU backs blanket financial regulation - Yahoo News
BERLIN – European leaders backed sweeping new regulations for financial markets and hedge funds at a summit Sunday in Berlin as politicians and nations scrambled to tame the global economic crisis . German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted heads of