Linkin Park Works with Harvard Business Students to Launch a Venture Capital Firm
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll might sound more glamorous than a diversified business portfolio, but the returns are a little more shortsighted.
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Charter Moves Forward on Friendly Bid for Time Warner Cable
John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Media, the dominant shareholder of Charter Communications, reportedly called Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus in recent days about a friendly merger following the collapse last week of an offer by Comcast to buy Time Warner, according to the Wall Street Journal blog. Malone and Marcus appear be discussing a 3-way merger that would challenge Comcast’s industry dominance.
Kotkin: Jerry Brown is a Disaster–and California Business Elite Won’t Stop Him
Joel Kotkin, the noted liberal critic of California’s far-left government, says that Gov. Jerry Brown is leading California to ruin–and that the state’s business leaders share the blame by failing to speak out. In a new essay at the Daily Beast that summarizes much of his recent criticism, Kotkin says that while Brown’s father Pat brought the state progress and prosperity as governor (1959-1967), Jerry Brown “has waged a kind of Oedipal struggle against his father’s legacy.”
Business Chiefs Warn Electorate: Don’t Trust Labour To Handle The Growing Economic Recovery
More than 100 business executives running companies which together employ more than half a million people have come out in support of the Conservative Party. They are urging the electorate not to change course in the upcoming general election. The
Conservatives Cheer Texas Senate’s Passage of Franchise Tax Reform
The Texas Senate has passed a package of bills that include substantial reforms to the state’s franchise tax, a tax on a business’ gross margins. Conservatives are cheering the news, and turning a hopeful eye toward the House, where the fate of these reforms now rests.
UTEP Report: Drug War Violence Hurting Mexican Businesses
Most drug war observers know that drug-related violence—especially in industrial and metropolitan areas like Ciudad Juárez—has a negative impact on the local community. But the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) has recently published a report detailing the various short- and long-term effects of this violence on Mexican businesses, and how this has had some effect on Texas border communities.
Miliband’s War on Business Not Sensible Say Labour Donors; Polls Show Public Agree
Two Labour donors have waded into the ongoing conflict between the Labour party and the business community, criticising Labour leader Ed Miliband for his “unnecessary” assault on commercial enterprise, and warning that the stock market will tumble if Labour win the general
Legal Marijuana Sales Grow 74 Percent in 2014
What wouldn’t you give to put your money in a business that grew 74 percent in one year? There is such a business, the fastest-growing business in the nation: selling marijuana legally.
Report: Flops Result In Massive Layoffs at DreamWorks Animation
While Disney delivers “Frozen,” Universal delivers “Despicable Me,” and Warners delivers “The Lego Movie,” DreamWorks Animation is reeling from its latest box office disappointment, “Penguins of Madagascar” after already losing money on “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “Turbo,” and the disastrous
Economic Death Spiral: More American Businesses Dying Than Starting
In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.”
American Apparel Ends Wild Ride with CEO Dov Charney
The wild ride for American Apparel founder and CEO and 27% shareholder, Dov Charney, came to an end with his termination by the public company’s Board of Directors for “cause.” Charney was suspended on June 18 due to alleged work-related
