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09 Mar 2009 10:34

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Biz: Drug companies Merck, Schering-Plough have a shotgun wedding

  • $49 billion to merge the two pharmaceuticals source

09 Mar 2009 09:45

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Biz: Newspaper giant McClatchy cuts staff en masse

  • 15% of all employees will be laid off. Awesome job, guys. source

08 Mar 2009 21:24

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Biz, U.S.: In NYC, bargain-hunters bought foreclosed homes

  • 1,000 number of New Yorkers who came out to a rare foreclosure auction source

08 Mar 2009 21:16

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Biz, World: When it comes to bailouts, don’t forget the third world

  • $700 billion might be needed; at least they’re not AIG. source

08 Mar 2009 19:57

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Biz: Cooking the books, forcing layoffs, funding a killer shoe habit

  • $9.9 million Amount Annette Yeomans allegedly stole while the CFO of Quality Woodworks, Inc., a cabinetry company source

08 Mar 2009 19:49

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Biz: We won’t use the “short circuit” pun with this Circuit City story

  • Oops, we just did. Anyway, their last day is today. The former mega-retailer, once a formidable force in electronics retail, just spent the last month and a half liquidating. They gave themselves until March 31, but finished early. So tonight, the lights go off for the last time on the retailer that wanted to be Best Buy, but wasn’t as good. source

07 Mar 2009 16:32

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Biz, U.S.: Laid off and think you’ll get a temp job? Not so fast.

  • 1.42% of the workforce is temporary; that’s low source
 

06 Mar 2009 15:41

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Biz: Let’s shoot holes through that “nobody reads newspapers” argument!

  • 30% of people read the print edition of a newspaper daily or near-daily source

06 Mar 2009 12:38

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Biz: Ruth Madoff has a buttload of money separate from Bernard’s. Really?

  • $45 million amount Ruth has in bonds, which are “unrelated” to her husband’s massive alleged Ponzi scheme. Oh boy. source

05 Mar 2009 10:36

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Biz: General Motors sounds like they’re on their last legs

  • The failure to obtain sufficient funding from the U.S. government or governments outside the United States may require us to shrink or terminate operations or seek reorganization for certain subsidiaries outside the United States.
  • General Motors • In a filing to the federal government regarding the health of their company. The company says it may have to go into bankruptcy to stay afloat, which, considering their size, would probably not be healthy for the economy at all. Michigan is screwed. • source