Entries tagged "The New York Times"
Private equity firms get the short shrift from mainstream media, which sees the world in black and white where PE firms are villains.
What kind of companies drive innovation more effectively -- small, nimble startups or big, heavily capitalized corporations?
Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer in (not so) mortal combat. The New York Times has to sell its jet. Bankers have to slum it at Embassy Suites. And Mark Zuckerberg lost more than face. The end must be nigh.
While the New York Post and others blame Wall Street executives for the credit crisis, Scientific America and rival Discover both blame the rocket scientists that Wall Street employed, who created the exotic financial instruments, notes ClusterStock. Meanwhile, Charles Calomiris, the Henry Kaufman professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia University's business school, is angry at Hank Paulson, telling Deal Journal that the bailout plan to save the economy is "Truly idiotic." The man that President-elect Barack Obama will rely on to pick up where Paulson left off, treasury secretary nominee Tim Geithner, received some drubbings already over his role so...
The newspaper industry is in critical condition, and CBS CEO Les Moonves makes no bones about it. The media veteran, who helped engineer CBS' $1.8 billion purchase of online media company Cnet Networks Inc. in May, seemed to be gloating, telling an audience at MIXX 2.8, the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual advertising conference Tuesday, about his company's new direction, which seems to spell only more troubles for the newspaper industry. ...
