Chicago TribunePaula Deen’s $100 million empire crumbled last year after she admitted to using a racial slur in her everyday life, and as she continues campaigning to repair her public image with a $75 million…
ForbesThe FT notes that the Versace deal would be Blackstone’s first investment in luxury fashion. So, can Blackstone do with high-fashion what it’s been able to do with investments like Hilton? Maybe. Lately, Wall Street…
City of Miami, Agencia EFE sign collaboration agreementFox News LatinoThe City of Miami and Agencia EFE on Wednesday signed a collaboration agreement aimed at promoting investment and entrepreneurial initiative in the South Florida metropolis. Mayor…
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson to meet Friday with Chinese …MLive.comDETROIT, MI – Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and county officials are meeting Friday with a government delegation from Hai’an, China about the…
CNBC.comInvestment firm London Central Portfolio is set to launch a London residential property fund in Singapore next month, focusing on the central districts of the city, and in direct response to growing Singapore demand for…
MacroBusiness (blog)…clinched agreement from the world’s most powerful economies to boost global growth by at least 2 per cent over the next five years. Mr Hockey said the G20 was focused on developing concrete action…
4 Hidden Benefits of Social Media for Your BusinessSearch Engine JournalSocial media provides great entertainment and a form of distraction for all of us, but from a professional perspective it comes with some questions. Someone…
By Sasha Cekerevac A friend of mine asked me the other day about the best way to build a long-term investment strategy. This is a great question, but it’s also one of the most difficult…
Oil and gas company sues city of Dallas over right to drill on leasesDallas Morning NewsTrinity East Energy sued the city of Dallas on Thursday to recoup its investment in oil and gas leases because…
CNETDemocrats in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that will give the FCC authority to impose its Net neutrality rules until it can come up with a more permanent legal fix. Marguerite Reardon. by…
CBS LocalMIAMI (CBSMiami) — Major League Soccer in Miami is one step closer to becoming reality. David Beckham is coming back to South Florida for what’s sure to be a star-studded affair amid plans to…
BBC NewsA new London taxi, designed by Nissan, is to be built in Coventry, the company has said. The cabs will be assembled by ADV Manufacturing at a new plant as part of a £6m…
Nintendo InsiderACE Securities, a Japanese investment and market analysis firm, has blamed Sony for Nintendo’s lack of success in securing third-party support on Wii U. Their report, written in response to Nintendo’s revised financial forecast,…
ReutersDAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Iran is determined to negotiate a comprehensive deal on its nuclear programme with major powers so it can develop its battered economy, President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, inviting Western companies…
ABC NewsIranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday his country is ready to do business and honor a deal to curb its nuclear program, in a speech aimed at persuading world leaders of Tehran’s willingness to…
AFPDavos — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani takes centre stage at the Davos World Economic Forum Thursday, as he seeks to drum up investment for his sanctions-hit economy amid thawing relations with the West. Rouhani leads…
By oaklandlac I want to use this month’s column to talk about investing. What does a Library Commissioner know about investing? Well, to invest is to commit money or capital in order to gain a…
eWeekIBM has pledged to commit $1.2 billion to significantly expand its global cloud footprint, beefing up its SoftLayer infrastructure and other components. Big Blue said the investment includes a network of cloud centers designed to…
BBC NewsCuban President Raul Castro has called for “civilised relations” with the United States, saying the two countries should respect their differences. President Castro said the US should drop its demand for regime change on…
Officials: 6 indicted in Las Vegas, Zurich fraud caseLas Vegas SunOfficials say three people have been arrested in the U.S., and three are sought in Montana and Switzerland on charges that they headed a multi-million…
Las Vegas SunMADRID — Casino operator Las Vegas Sands on Friday scrapped plans to build a “EuroVegas” resort near Madrid after the Spanish government rejected as illegal concessions demanded for the investment. The company, led…
Box office preview: Will ‘The Hobbit’ desolate the competition?Entertainment WeeklyThe gun-toting grandma, played by Perry in drag, has become a perennial box–office force. The first five Madea films cost an average of $14.8 million to…
Access Industries Leads $112M Round In Rocket Internet Asia-Pacific Fashion …TechCrunchToday, one of the big backers of that fund, Access Industries, is leading a $112 million investment into two of Rocket’s big e-commerce plays in…
Ron Conway, the famed tech investor and co-founder of Y-Combinator, started SF CiTi with the original objective of marshalling the San Francisco and San Francisco Bay Area Tech Community to move the political needle on…
The Coliseum City Project (the focus of an Oakland City Council closed session meeting today) just got the “middle eastern investor” Oakland District Seven Councilmember Larry Reid was working on securing as far back as…
The White House just issues a joint statement from the Kingdom of Denmark, Republic of Finland, Republic of Iceland, Kingdom of Norway, and the Kingdom of Sweden, joining the United States in a united front…
This transcript came from The White House Press Office 25 minutes ago: REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY State University of New York Buffalo Buffalo, New York 11:23 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Buffalo!…
Paula Deen, who’s show Food Network announced it was dropping effective when it’s contract ran out next month in the wake of revelations that she used the N-word more than once with people who worked…
Jason Calacanis has written what was an email turned into a blog post (“I aint’gonna work on YouTube’s farm no more”) and about his reasons why he’s not going to accept YouTube’s second-round of content…
The National Football League wants the Miami Dolphins to remain a going concern in the South Florida region. That message was communicated via NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell while on the NFL Network for a wide-ranging…
The SF Transbay Transit Tower groundbreaking is an exciting development that this vlogger will attend today. Here’s the press release: Boston, MA, March 26, 2013 – Hines and Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP) announced today that…
The LA NFL Stadium issue, where AEG is negotiating to build a new stadium and convention hall and bring a new NFL team to Los Angeles, seemed to turn negative on a Yahoo! Sports report…
Kanye West, in his song “Clique” says, “I rather buy 80 gold chains and go ign’ant (sic), I know Spike Lee gone kill me but let me finish.” Though the song continues with references to…
This in from the NFL Head of Communications, Greg Aiello: the NFL is not considering expansion into LA – it never was. The messaging error came last year and due to a mistake by the…
“Chevron Ecuador Burford Capital Accuses Steven Donziger Of Fraud,” is a blockbuster story. The latest news in the lawsuit pitting plaintiff’s lead by New York Lawyer Steven Donziger (who claims to represent Ecuador’s indigenous people)…
George Lucas And Mellody Hobson, the seven-year-long relationship between the legendary filmmaker, creator of Star Wars, and Irish Coffee-lover (I had one with him at the old Aqua Restaurant in San Francisco six years ago),…
Just in time for CES 2013 (and Zennie62 will be in Las Vegas for CES International) Wide Angle Software http://www.wideanglesoftware.com, a leading developer of media management and back-up software, announced today the new TouchCopy 12,…
The result of Disney’s recent purchase of Lucasfilm is more entries into the Star Wars saga starting with Episode 7 in 2015; this has brought up many questions about the Star Wars universe from fans…
“Mitt Romney Investor In Ohio Voting Machines.” Again: Mitt Romney Investor In Ohio Voting Machines. That’s news is unbelievable, but it’s true according to the many media sources distributing this story. Think about it: Former…
At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, this blogger was blessed with the chance to interview the legendary Reverend Jesse Jackson just before the DNC was set to nominate then-Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic Nominee…
The Republican Party, or GOP, is running a new commercial designed to criticize the first, and much needed, Economic Stimulus Package. The problem with the GOP take is that it’s just plain stupid. Anyone who…
GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has called the work he did at Bain and Company that of a venture capitalist. The fact is that Mitt’s wrong and insulting venture capitalists along the way. A venture…
For Oakland politicos, Joe Tuman has become a household name. The San Francisco State Professor and San Francisco CBS Channel Five Political Commentator made a name for himself in 2010 with an aggressive, if late-starting…
Mitt Romney is wrong again. Mitt Romney, the Republican GOP Candidate for President, and supporter like Real Estate And Media Entrepreneur Donald Trump have talked a lot about claims that it’s President Obama and the…
PicPlz, the San Francisco-and-Seattle-based mobile photo-sharing platform founded by Dalton Caldwell, who is now founder of Mixed Media Labs, and this blogger is on (along with a number of others including Instagram) just sent an…
Mitt Romney’s speeding toward what looks to be the Republican Presidential Nomination for President. Romney’s just made a GOP Primary sweep, taking Washington DC, Maryland, and Wisconsin on Tuesday, and threatening to leave closest challenger…
According to sources, Sir Peter Weyland, in reality the so-called fictional founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, is also in reality not happy with the slow growth of his first Twitter account called @SirPeterWeyland, and…
Occupy is a movement, not an organization The “straw man” is one of the mainstays of dishonest argument. It is the art of making your opponent out to be something that he or she is…
The Miami Marlins are the new name of the Florida Marlins, and to this blogger, even if the new uniforms, revealed via a Twitter leak after a marketing event held by the Marlins on Friday,…
In an attempt to cloud Shaker’s win of the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, there has been a lot of reporting that TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington is one of Shaker’s “pending investors” to quote TechCrunch itself….
The news is all over that TechCrunch Founder and Editor Michael Arrington may step down from running the blog not just to operate a new venture capital fund, but because the rumor is he was…
In less than one week, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) Computer Network has shown signs of extreme vulnerability, and now, after Sunday’s computer hacker attack to its website, BART should consider alternative, emergency…
Over the 4th of July Weekend, USA Network had a three-day James Bond Movie Marathon, where such classics as Dr. No, and Live And Let Die were presented, along with the modern classic Casino Royale….
Originally, this blogger was planning to run Part Three of this video recap last Wednesday, but frankly elected to stretch out the content production opportunity. The video is over 38 minutes long, and only a…
Ashton Kutcher Talks With Charlie Rose At TechCrunch Disrupt, a photo by zennie62 on Flickr. Appearing in a beard and hat, and not wanting to talk about his new gig on Two And A Half…
