The Chicago Reader is well connected to insiders at the Chicago Tribune it seems. They are reporting today on a new top-secret (well not so much anymore) project that includes a weekly newspaper – with no ads – that Tribune will sell for top dollar, reportedly for as much as $5 per issue. This will Read more »
High income earners might want to watch out for new developments in states looking to shore up budgets. A state that’s become a battle ground over tax structure is Washington. One of that state’s leading citizens, Bill Gates Sr., the 84-year-old lawyer father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has come out in support of a Read more »
Beware closing those unused credit card accounts; doing so could hurt your chances of getting a loan, at least temporarily. Here’s how. Let’s say you have six credit cards, each with a $1,000 limit. All six credit cards together give you $6,000 in total available credit. Now if you have debt of $3,000, spread out Read more »
Burger King could be in for a change, if news reports coming out on Wednesday are true. The international fast food joint’s shares rose 15 percent over the morning. So what’s the King (Burger King’s mascot) running for this time? He’s racing toward a possible sale, according to The Wall Street Journal and other media Read more »
Yep. Even though nobody knows for sure when Mr. Jack Daniel was born, the legendary distiller of spirits that put tiny Lynchburg, Tennessee on the map, needs to have a national holiday in his honor. Yep. The marketing folks at Jack Daniel know that the country is getting all worked up over the elections that Read more »
Businesses might be struggling, the economy might be falling into a second recession, and thousands of people continue to get laid off every day, but if you’re a CEO, you’re still probably making money. Read more »
The Ferrari 458 was considered by some to be a future classic, and then it caught on fire. Ferrari is recalling all of the 458 Italia’s it has sold this year. According to the BBC, Ferrari engineers few all over the world to investigate the fires, which Ferrari reports as “thermal incidents,” and ultimately decided Read more »
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, of the Unification Church, aka Moonies, bought the Washington Times newspaper in Washington, D.C. for $1 plus taking over most of it’s I.O.U.s. There were rumors that Moon’s sons wanted control, but a memo issued today clarifies the purchase plan. The Washington Post recently sold Newsweek to businessman Sidney Harmon Read more »
Apple posted on its site that it will live stream the new product announcement starting 10:aoo Pacific Time, The Huffington Post reported. The event is a press conference that’s invitation only, taking place at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Calif. To watch the event at Apple.com, you’ll need to have an Apple computer Read more »
Back in the 1980′s Rubik’s Cube proved that adults still want toys as much as children. The downside of Rubik’s Cube is that it was mentally challenging. You actually had to come up with a way to make each side only one color. Buckyballs is a new toy that is not intended for use by Read more »
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