Charges against former Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas were dropped. Richard Siklos of Fortune has a catchy lede on his story about former Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas: ”As CEO-gone-bad cases go, Henry Nicholas’ had it all: heavy allegations of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, as well as big-time corporate number-fudging. Because of widespread stock-option backdating at [...]
The Census Bureau releases several residential-construction reports Feb. 17, including January tallies for building permits and housing starts. The data will be available on the Census Bureau’s new residential construction page, which includes monthly data on housing completions. Clearly January isn’t our briskest month for new home building, even in a banner year, so the [...]
The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., is looking for a business reporter who can post breaking news and compile a noon business briefing for the Web, as well as write daily stories and longer, analytical pieces for print that address consumer and watchdog issues. “Applicants should have a four-year degree, at least three years of experience at a daily [...]
Orlando Business Journal is looking for someone with several years experience to work to cover banking. In the publication’s Poynter Online job listing, editors said they are looking for an “excellent beat reporter to cover banking/finance and law in one of the most dynamic markets in the country. We’re looking for someone curious and hungry, [...]
When Bank of America was charged with fraud on Feb. 4, it was breaking news. Since then it seems the story dropped off the planet, so-to-speak. It was the Thursday before last that regular mid-day CNN watching was interrupted with the breaking news that Bank of America was being charged with fraud in relation to [...]
The consumer credit landscape will shift again next week when more provisions of the new federal CARD rules kick in. CARD, or the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009, was signed into law last May by President Obama and takes effect on Feb. 22, although some of its terms were implemented in [...]
Coinciding with the implementation date of the new CARD rules is a deadline for retailers to start complying with federal regulations that cover installment-loan purchases. You know, those popular “no payments, no interest” for 12, 24 or 36 month deals on furniture, appliances, and electronics. (The catch, for purchasers, has always been to pay off [...]
PBS Frontline contributor Miles O’Brien explores airline safety at regional airlines a year after a Continental Airlines-partner flight crashed into a home in Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50. “Flying Cheap” focuses on the increased need for safety regulations as more major airlines outsource flights to smaller regional players. The broadcast traces regional carrier Colgan Air’s growth, plus [...]
TheStreet.com has matched the personal donation of $50,000 made by its co-founder Jim Cramer to a SABEW fund honoring its former editor, Dave Morrow, who died Feb. 1 of cancer. Morrow left the financial Web site last year after eight years to become the first Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. In that [...]
