The semi-big news that Microsoft and Yahoo–united, as Dealbreaker charmingly put it, by their “love of Latin sounding next-gen technological platforms (Vista for Microsoft, Panama for Yahoo)”–are again talking to each other about maybe, you know, getting together seems to have left just about everybody but Yahoo’s long-suffering …
Time Warner COO: For Media, Corporate Diversity Is About Business
I just had lunch with Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner’s soon-to-be CEO. Okay, so technically speaking, I was in a large room with many other people eating sandwiches in the presence of Bewkes. The luncheon was arranged by A3, Time Inc.’s Asian group, and ably hosted by my friend Stephanie Mehta, a senior writer at Fortune.
The lunch was …
Paul Wolfowitz, still with us
My column is back, in the “Time 100” issue on newsstands today and online here. It begins:
The World Bank is undeniably in crisis. But not because its president, Paul Wolfowitz, got his girlfriend a raise.
It is the Wolfowitz saga that has been grabbing all the headlines, of course. The Iraq-war architect was plucked from the Defense
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Ha ha ha Mark Cuban ha ha ha
No, I don’t really have anything against the guy. It’s just fun to beat him. Although, as I went to bed before halftime of the Mavericks-Warriors game last night (it was already 11:30 or so), I missed getting that satisfaction in real time. Matthew Yglesias may wonder how West Coast sports fans cope with such early TV game times; I’m …
What Makes a Boss Family-Friendly?
Answer: it’s not the X chromosome.
I had a long talk the other day with a friend in California whose new boss is a woman without children. My friend has children with special needs, and she needs to get home to them at a certain time. As she headed for the door, her new boss confronted her, reminding her of a project that had yet to be …
The weird things you see in midtown Manhattan
Murdoch’s hands-on style
Today’s Journal has an interesting article, apparently available to all, examining Rupert Murdoch’s history as a newspaper editor:
Andrew Neil, a former editor of the Sunday Times, says Mr. Murdoch would likely make changes to the Journal if his bid was successful. “I think he would want the news to be informed by the editorial agenda,”
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A little actuarial humor for you
Ah, the life of a business/economics/financial reporter. It pretty much is all fun and games. Witness what happened when I stopped by the 60th annual conference of the CFA Institute (the trade group for financial analysts) at the Hilton just up the street this morning to catch a panel discussion on “Envisioning the Future of Retirement …
A rousing defense of Citizen Murdoch
A friend with a history in the British newspaper business writes:
I’m fascinated by some of the comments on Murdoch in the papers and from the WSJ newsroom — right-wing ideologue, terrible for papers etc etc.
He’s a newspaper man! He’s got ink under his fingernails! Ask any of his editors: he loves papers. That may not be why he’s
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…and the Best Recruiting Website Is the Army’s
I was just checking out the 2007 winners of the Webby awards. The gala event isn’t till June, but the winners are posted here. Anyway, I look at it as sort of a best-of-the-web (or someone’s idea of that), so I checked out the winners under the “employment” category.
Surprise: the Webby winner is the Army recruitment site. Recruiters …
Covering the other major business news of the day
This whole John Browne thing is really weird.
Barry Goldwater, John Kenneth Galbraith, Sam Tanenhaus, Todd Gitlin, Bobby Kennedy Jr. and The Dread Alterman, all in one amazing blog post
I caught the second half of a pretty interesting panel discussion on “The Conservatism and Liberalism of the 1960s: Then and Now” at the New York Public Library this (Tuesday) afternoon. The occasion was the publication of new editions of Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative and John Kenneth Galbraith’s The New Industrial …