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For a decade that saw the recording industry implode, Nielsen/SoundScan’s list of the top-selling artists of the 2000s was still impressive. There was Linkin Park’s 21 million records sol

My goodness—writing, trading, building, growing, seeing, believing and scanning the new world order certainly takes a toll, doesn't it?I was melding with President Fish and C.O.O. Ike yesterday

Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard.- Coldplay As last year drew to a close, we revisited our 2007 themes and weighed them in kind. Many of them came to fruition, others w

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc

Hello from New York where, whatever "life-related" challenges I might be presented with today, at least I'm not FedEx (FDX). In addition to FDX's much publicized earnings warning this mornin