Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Businessweek's Roben Farzad discusses the
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Businessweek's Roben Farzad discusses the bidding battle for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Eight groups, including one led by Joe Torre, remain in the bidding for the club Frank McCourt is selling out of bankruptcy, in part to pay his ex-wife, Jamie, $131 million for her share of the Dodgers agreed to in their October divorce settlement, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Feb. 6 edition. (Source: Bloomberg)
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Businessweek Senior Editor David Rocks
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Businessweek Senior Editor David Rocks talks about the BBW50, a ranking of top-performing companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. (Source: Bloomberg)
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Henry Juszkiewicz, chief executive officer of
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Henry Juszkiewicz, chief executive officer of Gibson Guitar Corp., talks with Bloomberg Businessweek's Ben Austen about U.S. agents' raids of the company's plants in Nashville and Memphis last August and Gibson's response to accusations it had illegally imported ebony and rosewood from India to be used for fingerboards produced in its Tennessee factories. (Source: Bloomberg)
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Small drones provide U.S. ground forces
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Small drones provide U.S. ground forces with battlefield intelligence and have become more common. As of July of this year, according to the Defense Department, almost 7,000 small unmanned aerial vehicles were deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. An unlikely industry leader of this explosion of flying robots is a Los Angeles-area company called AeroVironment Inc. It produces 85 percent of the UAVs used by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Defense Department. Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Megan Hughes reports on a
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Megan Hughes reports on a Louisiana state law, supported by telecommunications companies, that has smaller cities like Lafayette struggling to provide fiber-optic cable to all homes. In its bid to provide municipal broadband, Lafayette fought against the law, which named telecommunications as a permitted city utility and imposed conditions on municipalities. Hughes reported on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack" on Dec. 2. (Source: Bloomberg)
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Investors and the public are seeking
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Investors and the public are seeking more information on companies' carbon emissions, water usage, workplace diversity and other factors. Bloomberg Businessweek's Karen Weise reports on ways to measure corporate sustainability and rating companies who are vying to be the arbiter of who's really green. (Source: Bloomberg)
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Professional soccer player Abby Wambach of
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Professional soccer player Abby Wambach of the U.S. women's soccer team discusses her technique for heading soccer balls to score goals while avoiding injury.¶ Wambach, who has played professionally for nine years, is among a small group of soccer players whose lucrative sponsorship deals afford them a comfortable living. (Source: Bloomberg)
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, talks about how his grandfather might compare the concentration of wealth among the nation's largest financial institutions today to the "military industrial complex" he warned about in his 1961 farewell speech. Eisenhower's commentary is in the current issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. He spoke August 24th at the Eisenhower Historic Site in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.(Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- On May 19, 2011, Rupert Murdoch hosted a dinner party to hash out once and for all how to handle the phone-hacking scandal that had been hanging over the company for months and was suddenly spinning out of control. Murdoch chose that evening to stick to a London-based containment strategy, with News Corp.'s U.K. head Rebekah Brooks supervising it. Nine months later, the consequences of that decision still reverberate, Bloomberg Businessweek's reports in its Feb. 13 issue. Greg Farrell discusses the dinner on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack." (Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Hans Olsen, managing director at Barclays Wealth, and Arthur Hogan, a
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Hans Olsen, managing director at Barclays Wealth, and Arthur Hogan, a strategist at Lazard Capital Markets, talk about the outlook for U.S. stocks and their investment strategies. They speak with Trish Regan, Adam Johnson and Lisa Murphy on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart."
The Dow is up 63% since President Obama took office
The Dow is up 63% since President Obama took office
The Dow is up 63% since President Obama took office
The Dow is up 63% since President Obama took office
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution, talks about
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution, talks about the outlook for Greece following a second bailout package for the country. He speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line."
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Jason Goldberg, founder and chief executive officer of Fab.com Inc.,
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Jason Goldberg, founder and chief executive officer of Fab.com Inc., talks about Fab.com's acquisition of Germany's Casacanda GmbH and the outlook for the company. He speaks with Sara Eisen on Bloomberg Television's "Money Moves."
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Todd Harrison, the congressional investigator who has sought to discover
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Todd Harrison, the congressional investigator who has sought to discover how Solyndra LLC came to win a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee only to file for bankruptcy protection two years later, talks about the Solyndra loan-guarantee program. Harrison, speaking with Bloomberg's Jim Snyder on Feb. 14, also discusses his experience and methodology as an investigator. (Source: Bloomberg)
