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The Auto Industry As a Play: A wonderful summation of what is wrong with Detroit. Staff Keeps Neuberger After Deal Falls Apart: Essentially buying the liability-free shop, which was meant to be worth $8 billion, for nothing. ... Read Blog
CNBC Makes Failure Donny Deutsch's Friend
CNBC has put The Big Idea, adman Donny Deutsch's entrepreneur-encouragement show, on hiatus, reports TVNewser. Officially, the show's not canceled, just on hold until a moment more favorable to its message -- the theory being that "Anyone ... Read Blog
The Lending Standards Red Herring
I'd taken a hiatus from talking about the role -- or more precisely, lack of a role -- of lending standards in bringing down the economy, but a couple of developments today pull me back to it. ... Read Blog
Smartphone Growth Slowing
Ars Technica reports: Like a commercial break that strikes right when the made-for-TV movie is just getting interesting, a new study says that worldwide smartphone growth reached its lowest rate during the third quarter of 2008. Renewed ... Read Blog
What Do Bush and Castro Have In Common?
Tonight Show host Jay Leno had an acid riff on business and bailouts on his show last night. A sample: "Little bit of history trivia. It was this week, actually yesterday, in 1961, that Fidel Castro announced ... Read Blog
Morning Hemlines: Mervyn's, Fred Leighton, Imitation of Christ, Holidays, Luxury Ads, Vintage
Cerberus Capital Management and the other private equity investors in department store chain Mervyn's made $250 million off the deal--even though the company is shutting down, and 18,000 workers being laid off. (WSJ) Analysts foresee a grim ... Read Blog
SNL Strives to Keep Election Momentum
It's been a banner year for Saturday Night Live, which has enjoyed record ratings since Tina Fey first teased her hair, donned a bracelet-sleeve blazer, and started dropping her g's in a parody of Republican vice-presidential candidate ... Read Blog
The Mystery of President Obama
On January 20, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. And lIke Franklin Delano Roosevelt did as he took the White House while facing the Depression, he'll have to make ... Read Blog
Jack Flack Says Thank You.
Humble blogger finally expresses appropriate appreciation. Read Blog
Google's Cash Cow: You
Google doesn't sell software or hardware or content. It sells you -- or, slightly more precisely, its ability to understand your habits and deliver your attention to particular advertisers. And because of this, I am just a ... Read Blog
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