January 7 - January 13, 2007
Friday, Jan. 12
Shares of the L.A.-based music service, which has been on life support almost from the time it went legit, jumped...
One big reason for the increase is that the Port of Los Angeles now has the capacity to accept mega-ships...
The Mouse House finished the day at $35.21, up 22 cents and a new 52-week high. That's on top of...
Judith Regan might as well have a "kick me" sign taped on her backside. The latest NY publishing buzz centers...
Beckham mania: There was an avalanche of coverage this morning - much of it fawning, some of it skeptical, almost...
Thursday, Jan. 11
Sorry, I don't have photos (talk to the LAO bean counter), but I can assure you that Wall Street lawyer...
Get used to the Adidas logo - you're going to see it whenever you see the Galaxy (that's L.A.'s soccer...
And waiting... and waiting... The dozen or so members of Judith Regan's L.A.-based staff - many of them NY transplants...
No wonder Wall Street is pooh-poohing the backdating issues involving Santa Monica-based Activision and Agoura Hills-based THQ. Business is good....
Looks like pro soccer will be getting a new lease on life now that David Beckham is in the mix...
Well, it sure looks that way. The Business Journal is reporting this week that 496,512 homes were sold in L.A....
Magic Mountain not being sold: Six Flags has decided to hold onto the Valencia property, although it is selling three...
Wednesday, Jan. 10
NY-based media writer Michael Wolff does a veeery long ramble in the February Vanity Fair about the newspaper business in...
Variety is reporting that she submitted her resignation shortly after noon. No announcement yet, probably because they haven't finished up...
C'mon admit it - you've never heard of International Aluminum Corp. Based in Monterey Park, it was founded in 1957...
Paramount shakeup: LAT is reporting that studio head Gail Berman will be out the door this week. She was brought...
Tuesday, Jan. 9
THQ Inc., the Agoura Hills-based videogame company, says its independent investigation of stock option practices found no evidence of wrongdoing...
Does the name Benjamin Waisbren ring a bell? He had been the Hollywood mouthpiece for Wisconsin-based hedge fund Stark Investments...
There was a bit more to yesterday's ho-hum annoucement that the two co-CEOs of L.A.-based Guess would be getting new...
He's just introduced a bunch of new stuff, including a cellphone and Apple's iTV device for streaming video from PC...
It's not because of last night's brush fire, but a year-long slide in prices and home sales. The median price...
He's the big-name show biz attorney who was accused in a two-count indictment of paying jailed PI Anthony Pellicano at...
Health care plan: Lots of coverage on the governor's proposal for universal health coverage (it leads the NYT). One potential...
Monday, Jan. 8
As expected, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his ground-breaking health insurance package that would require employers with 10 or more workers...
They're supposed to work lock-step with the price of gasoline, right? Well, not so far. The Energy Department's weekly survey...
Is this more evidence of a global warming kind of winter? At last check, it was 86 degrees in Westwood,...
This is not the best news for folks who rely on advertising for their livelihoods, but here 'tis: Ad spending...
Fortune's annual list doesn't have a single company headquartered in L.A. The closest is Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, which ranked 40th...
Free wireless Internet service is expanding to Little Tokyo, Bunker Hill, the Historic Core and the Financial District. Service could...
In case anyone is still wondering why stock options can be such a big deal, consider the case of Angelo...
Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., which was among the first companies implicated in the stock option scandal, has disclosed that its...
Week of conferences: Fasten your seat belts and prepare to be inundated with dispatches from the Consumer Electronics Show, the...
Sunday, Jan. 7
LAT Publisher David Hiller is offering some clues on the paper's move towards a more expanded Web presence. In a...
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