Wow. When word hit of the earthquake and tsunami tragedy in Japan, I figured the auto industry would be rocked by the supply disruption. But this fresh analysis Northville, Mich.-baesd IHS Global Insight, as reported by the Detroit News, includes some stunning numbers and prompts questions you’ll want to ask area dealers. The article, “Japan [...]
I didn’t attend South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, but after reading Katherine Rosman’s article in The Wall Street Journal, I felt like I did.
This is a feat because Katherine says her editor gave her free rein on the angle to take – which can sometimes be a blessing and a curse. With no direction, she focused on doing man-on-the-street reporting at the event, which began as music festival 1987, but added an interactive portion in 1994. She reports, “More than 17,000 people are expected to have attended the five-day interactive conference,” held March 9-13.
In what looks like the final step in integrating BusinessWeek into Bloomberg, the financial information giant Bloomberg L.P. has created Bloomberg Media Group. The company announced that the move puts all of its news operations under one umbrella. The new group includes BusinessWeek, now called Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Bloomberg.com, the monthly magazine Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg Television [...]
David Kaplan, writing for PaidContent.org, reports that The Wall Street Journal plans to begin selling single issue downloads for the iPad for $1.99. The digital version of The WSJ’s morning paper will appear in the iTunes App store tomorrow. Kaplan said in a conversation with Alisa Bowen, head of digital for Dow Jones, she said [...]
SABEW has announced an 32 additional awards in the Best in Business competition. Those winners came from 11 categories affected by technical difficulties associated with new electronic contest software that digitized the entry and judging processes, according to a Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) release. The earlier winners were announced last week: [...]
Craig Harris of The Arizona Republic became the first recipient of the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting from Syracuse’s Newhouse School for an eight-part series looking at abuses in the state’s pension plans.
Craig had to survive being sued by the Arizona State Retirement System — which sought (unsuccessfully) to get a judge’s approval to deny the paper’s public information request — and castigated (erroneously) by retirees for requesting certain data.
Weekend word that AT&T has offered to buy rival T-Mobile from parent Deutsche Telekom AG – creating the largest wireless provider – is creating quite the buzz on Wall Street this week. In addition to the telecomm-specific stories that will emerge from this deal, you might use it as an opportunity to review other merger activitiy affecting [...]
Colin Tetreault holds a Master of Arts from Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability and is a sustainability consultant and expert to numerous organizations. The year is 2062. Imagine the landscape: contemporary themed dense urban cores; plentiful access to basic staples, goods, services; efficient and ubiquitous access to travel and transportation; pestilence, disease, and stratification [...]
There’s nothing like a whiff of fertilizer scent in a garden center to herald the arrival of spring, and after a long slog through winter that acrid odor was most welcome over the weekend, as I watched a local chain store reopen its landscaping center. Nursery and garden centers are a $26 billion a year [...]
