LA Times:
Although his widow and sons disagree on Method acting's techniques, the craft's principles are the same, they say. The Method is dead. Long live the Method. ¶ Spe (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Bruce Bond is stepping down as chief executive of exchange-traded fund provider Invesco PowerShares Capital Management. (Read More)
FOXBusiness.com:
Analyst Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities said he believes that chief executive Ken Lewis, who is slated to leave Bank of America (BAC) at the end of the year, could actually be back as the bank’s CEO. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Barclays Capital said Friday that it has formed Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC with Goff Capital to buy Crescent Real Estate Equities from Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funding II. It has als (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Rochdale’s Dick Bove beats the drum for Ken Lewis at BofA (BAC) again, citing “anecdotal conversations” that management wants the outgoing CEO to stay. Bove says a rival analyst disapproves, but that “every other communicatio (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
Formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated this week in a marathon surgery will remain in the care of a humanitarian group for at least two years, the organization's CEO said Friday. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Valero Energy on Friday said it's shutting down its refinery in Delaware City, Del. in a move that will eliminate 550 jobs. "The decision to permanently close the Delaware City refinery was a very d (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
11-20-09-- The House attacks the Fed and Treasury, Technical snafu grounds the nation's fliers, CEO's and Obama need to thaw, and Oprah will call it a day in 2011
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Wall Street Journal:
Tech Today gathers all the biggest technology news of the morning’s Wall Street Journal into one place for your reading pleasure.AOL Grapples With Harsh Reality: AOL is planning to cut about a third of its staff as the strugg (Read More)
CNN:
The news that Los Angeles Dodgers owners Frank and Jamie McCourt are divorcing came with a bitter kick: Team chairman Frank's first move against his soon-to-be-ex was to fire her from her job as the Dodgers' chief executive. (Read More)
Financial Times:
A solution to facilitate a Cadbury-Hershey merger and repel Kraft’s $16.6bn hostile bid for the UK confectioner has been outlined in a letter to Cadbury CEO Todd Stitzer from the special situations team at brokerage GFL, repo (Read More)
CNN:
Sony on Thursday introduced plans to launch an online portal for music, movies, books, and other content such as applications, according to BusinessWeek. The market, named Sony Online Service, is expected to fulfill CEO Howar (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The Journal's CEO Council this week gave way to an atmosphere of mutual mistrust and suspicion between the Obama administration and the business community. Executive Washington Editor Gerald Seib explains why this is troublin (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Tyson Foods promoted Donnie Smith to CEO and Jim Lochner to chief operating officer as the meat processor moves to continue rebounding from demand problems. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
In a widely-expected move, BP's Russian joint venture TNK-BP confirmed that it will appoint Maxim Barsky as its new Chief Executive. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Lorillard has begun looking for a successor to CEO Martin L. Orlowsky, whose contract at the cigarette maker expires next year. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
As Sony scrambles to reassert its technological relevance, CEO Howard Stringer is betting on a strategy for the electronics giant that focuses on adding online content to more of its gadgets. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The short answer is yes.Ameritrade CEO Fred Tomczyk caused waves late Wednesday when he said at the Reuters Global Finance Summitt when he said he would consider acquiring E*Trade, if the conditions were right. On its face, h (Read More)
CNN:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has chastised a Mac developer in response to a letter regarding a name change, reports say. The CEO of Little App Factory, John Devor, says he was recently served a notice by Apple lawfirm Baker & McKenz (Read More)