Apple and Comcast in talks
Streaming television is getting a new competitor. The Wall Street Journal had the internet abuzz Sunday night with a report that Apple is talking to Comcast about a TV service that would bypass the...
Talking Biz News
Talking Biz News Today — March 21, 2014
The Wall Street Journal Exxon agrees to disclose its ‘carbon risk,’ by Daniel Gilbert U.S. maritime regulator approves mega shipping alliance, by Costas Paris The New York Times ‘The technology is out there,’ but...
Airbnb valued at $10 Billion
Earning a piece of travelers’ wallets is big business, and Airbnb is proving just how lucrative it can be. The company is close to closing funding valuing it at more than $10 billion. Michael...
Talking Biz News Today — March 20, 2014
The Wall Street Journal Airbnb in advanced talks to raise funding at a $10 billion valuation, by Evelyn M. Rusli and Douglas MacMillan Sony to add original TV shows for PlayStation, by Amol Sharma...
Frankie Flack: Lies, damn lies, statistics and business journalism
If you’re a business reporter and don’t love numbers, I don’t want anything to do with you. I love selling stories with facts and figures a lot more than I like selling sizzle. Show...
Yellen makes Federal Reserve debut
Janet Yellen’s debut didn’t say anything out of the ordinary, but apparently, investors didn’t care for her commentary. The Wall Street Journal story by Jon Hilsenrath and Victoria McGrane led with investor reaction to...
Talking Biz News Today — March 19, 2014
Some of Wednesday’s top stories: The Wall Street Journal Toyota set to pay $1.2 billion in U.S. probe, by Charles Levinson The New York Times Fed cuts bond purchases by another $10 billion, as...
Rumors, accuracy and the M&A beat
Only one third of stories written about companies being takeover targets between 2000 and 2011 proved to be accurate, according to research by two business school professors. “Accuracy” was defined by whether the rumored...
The news about women business owners
Colleen DeBaise is a journalist and author covering entrepreneurship. She is currently the director of digital media at The Story Exchange, a nonprofit media organization devoted to covering women business owners, and a contributor...
NY takes aim at high frequency traders
The opaque world of high frequency trading is coming under increasing scrutiny from regulators as the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he was looking into practices in the space. Andrew R. Johnson...
