Countrywide to Distribute Settlement to Its Clients
The number of consumers recovering money in the settlement is the biggest in the F.T.C.’s history and wound up being double what the commission had estimated. Most will get $500 or less, but 5 percent...
View ArticleYou’re the Boss Blog: Can an Applebee’s Franchisee Be a Real Entrepreneur?
Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesZane Tankel built the highest-grossing Applebee’s in the world. Today’s Question What small-business owners think. We’ve just published a lively small-business...
View ArticleDealBook: Groupon Seeks Offering Near $12 Billion Valuation
Asa Mathat/All Thing Digital, via ReutersGroupon’s founder, Andrew Mason. Enthusiasm for Groupon’s I.P.O. has fallen, in part because of questions about accounting. 9:05 p.m. | Updated Groupon, the...
View ArticleDealBook: Groupon Narrows Losses Ahead of Its Pitch to Investors
Asa Mathat/All Thing Digital, via ReutersAndrew Mason, Groupon’s chief executive. 6:14 p.m. | Updated Groupon is entering the final leg of its long journey toward an initial public offering. On Friday,...
View ArticleDealBook Column: Martoma Insider Trading Case Puts Spotlight on ‘Expert...
Toward the end of 2007, Silver Lake Partners, a well-respected investment firm, made what then seemed like a curious investment: it paid about $200 million to buy slightly less than a quarter of a...
View ArticleMobile Revolution Buffets Taiwan PC Rivals
TAIPEI — Two computer-making neighbors in the technologically inclined economy of Taiwan seem headed in opposite directions. Personal computer sales have slumped worldwide as smartphones and tablets...
View ArticleAdvertising: ABC Works on an App for Live Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices
The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones and tablets of cable and satellite subscribers, allowing those subscribers to watch “Good Morning America” on a tablet while standing in line at...
View ArticleYou’re the Boss Blog: The Risks of Expanding Into Australia, Part 2
Sustainable Profits The challenges of a waste-recycling business. In my last post, I wrote about our plans to open our 22nd foreign office in Australia. We have checked the very important first few...
View Article2 Networks Hint at Leaving the Airwaves
While viewed largely as saber-rattling, the idea that the networks could be converted into cable channels gained attention in the television world because such a move would have wide-reaching...
View ArticleMore Data on Privacy, but Picture Is Still Fuzzy
Now, one by one, the companies are putting out data intended to reassure their users that the government gets information on just a tiny number of people. Over the weekend, Facebook and Microsoft...
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