Marissa Mayer is coming for online video — and the ads that accompany it. Days after announcing its $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, Yaho has submitted a bid for Hulu. Now starts the bidding war, all $2 billion of it.
U.S. gross domestic product fell by 0.1 percent in 2012's fourth quarter, and analysts are chalking up the losses to reduced government spending — especially on defense. Will evidence about downsized federal budgets shrinking GDP change how lawmakers approach the budget fight?
Al Gore is a complicated, accomplished man. Sometimes, he's misunderstood, while other times he's misunderestimated. But Al Gore is not disingenious. At least, according to Al Gore he's not.
Beleaguered but beloved snack-cake brand Twinkies may have found a solution to its bankruptcy problems that involves joining forces with owner of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer — and, yes, the Twinkie hysteria has returned, this time for good.
You know that term "fair weather friend?" No? Let us introduce you to Bank of America, the nation's largest lender, instigator of the Financial Crisis and newfound believers in customer service.
The now former Senator got a little carried away responding to critics on Twitter over the weekend, which shouldn't be a big deal, but apparently it is when you're expected to run for a vacant Senate seat and now everyone is taking his "whatevers" so seriously.
You won't believe how easy it is for someone to connect Nazi propaganda mastermind Joseph Goebbels to the luxury car manufacturers Dailmer and BMW.
Readers who loyally buy print books from hundreds of Barnes & Noble stores may soon have to settle for the Nook. According to a top executive, as much as a third of their stores will be closed over the next 10 years.
If art's great power is making the person who interacts with that art feel something, you could argue that HBO's Girls is highly successful television. But if a TV show consistently makes a watcher feel bad, can it be good?
It's cold out there, and the new movies don't look great, and there's no football. But don't despair! There's plenty else you can do to entertain yourself between now and the next time you work.
Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn just took their Herbalife scuffle to CNBC for perhaps the most entertaining half-hour in the history of financial news television. Here's the story behind the story, and who came out on top.
Did you buy Apple stock recently? If yes, we're sorry. Because on Thursday, Apple stock plummeted a gut-wrenching 12 percent. That amounts to $52 billion of money that's just gone.
The NCAA's investigation into improper recruiting by a University of Miami athletic program that's seemingly always under investigation now won't see an end anytime soon... because the NCAA's own investigation has been compromised.
When you think of "rich guys who might buy The New York Times," how long does it take you to get to Donald Trump?
Things aren't as bad as they used to be in the newspapers business, but they're not good either. Perpetually faced with declining ad revenue, several papers have become landlords recently.
In 2012, Honda recalled one of their models for a safety risk about once every month, but this may be the end of a cycle, if Toyota's experiences are any indication.
Everyone is upset with Subway today because, well, occasionally their footlong subs don't always measure out to a complete foot long. But Subway isn't the only place you can find retailers coming up short.
It just got real for Boeing. On Wednesday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration said that it was grounding all of the 787 Dreamliners operated by U.S. carriers due to safety concerns.
Turns out it was a conscious decision, the prequel's showrunner tells The Atlantic Wire, and one that echoes how the franchise has approached the iconic buildings since September 11, 2001.
Someone had to pay the price for that debacle. And that someone was J.P. Morgan's CEO, who saw his annual bonus slashed to a measly $10 million, a 53.5-percent pay cut from the year before.
Wednesday marked another day in Japan and another emergency landing for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. This time it's serious, though. Smoke in the cockpit, serious.
Well you had to see this coming, sadly: HP has decided to do a little housecleaning at Autonomy, the company it acquired that it claims led to that huge $8.8 billion loss still shaking the tech giant.
Wall Street Journal employees began their day this morning with a bit of a headscratcher. (More of a head-to-toe scratcher, really.) And this is not the first time.
Apple's once unwavering grasp on the smartphone industry is showing more signs of weakening, as it cuts iPhone orders by about 50 percent "due to weaker-than-expected demand."
A few hours before the first press events at North America International Auto Show kicked off in Detroit, General Motors stole the thunder with an invitation-only event to unveil the all new Corvette.
We've all seen them, and maybe some of us have posted them. The passive aggressive break room note like, "If this yogurt isn't yours, don't eat it." "Whoever keeps leaving his or her dirty dish in the sink, your mom isn't here to wash it for you." And, of course, the age-old "If you sprinkle when you tinkle" missive, hung up in many a ladies' room.
The Golden Globe Awards arrive Sunday with a laid-back night full of drunken millionaires handing glorious trophies to each other. Here are some predictions about who will really come out on top on Hollywood's second-biggest night.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered a safety review of Boeing's flagship plane after two more incidents raised troubling concerns about their integrity.
Today in show business news: Christopher Nolan has found his followup to The Dark Knight Rises, Ali Larter gets a plum TV role, and Godzilla gets a guy.
A.J. Daulerio's tenure at Gawker lasted just over a year. Daulerio, who took over after editing Deadspin editor has quit, and senior writer John Cook is taking over as editor-in-chief.
Gangster Squad, the new film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, got some undue attention this summer when it hastily moved off its original September release date. It really wasn't worth all the fuss.
Less than two days after it began to draw the ire of, well, pretty much every American taxpayer, the insurer's board met today and decided they wouldn't join a lawsuit against the U.S. government.
Everyone knew former Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes was going to shake things up at The New Republic, but nobody expected a redesign of the classic DC title to be quite so... sans-serif.
For the second time in a year Apple CEO Tim Cook has travelled to China, and for the second time the purposes of his visit are shrouded in mystery, speculation, and, of course, tech-world chatter about world domination.
It's been almost five years since AIG's stock dropped 60 percent in a day leaving the company doomed to failure, when Uncle Sam swooped in with $182 billion to rescue it.
Riding the wave of gadget goodness from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung released a pretty impressive set of fourth quarter earnings estimates, including a record high profit.
Downton Abbey has, despite its elegance and period delicacy, perhaps entered into its own version of a perilously self-aware phase, too keenly cognizant of the Downton craze at the expense of fostering what created the craze in the first place.
Ken Kurson is a political consultant, longtime professional associate of Rudy Giuliani and close friend of Jared Kushner, who owns the paper, and his father Charles.
In the first jobs report of 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.8 percent while the U.S. economy added 155,000 new jobs — and that's good news.
We knew that Time Warner Cable dropped Current from its programming line-up, for reasons that remain unclear, right after it was sold to Al Jazeera. But now it's looking like other cable companies are looking for the first possible way out.
Sullivan announced that the independent version of his blog raised about $300,000 in 24 hours, with reader payments from pretty much everywhere but the great state of Arizona. What gives?
Within hours of CurrentTV officially being sold to Al Jazeera—netting Al Gore a cool $100 million—Time Warner Cable pulled the network from its channel lineups.
Every once in a while a tweet appears that's so silly, it must be a joke. Like this one from Glenn Beck: Before Al-Jazeera bought Current TV, TheBlaze looked into buying it but we were rejected by progressive owners.
We're still not sure how much the surging news organization will pay for Current TV, but we're pretty sure there is a difference between people tuning in to a channel... and just having it available somewhere on your dial.
The contentious fiscal cliff deal struck Tuesday night sent stock markets, here and abroad, "climbing", "surging", "rallying," and "soaring" on Wednesday. Which confirms the importance of striking a deal — any deal! — in the first place.
After reports surfaced that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had left the hospital after being successfully treated for a blood clot, the initial word was confirmed as untrue. Well, she has left the hospital, but she hasn't technically been released yet.
Andrew Sullivan is leaving The Daily Beast to launch up an independent, reader-funded publishing company based around a new kind of pay "meter," and he needs your help to start it — a lot of your help.
The aging car-rental giant announced Wednesday morning that it plans to acquire Zipcar for $500 million, but as we've seen recently with Facebook and Instagram, there's always the risk that the big old owner can ruin its disruptive little brother.
During a statement at the White House Monday, the president said the following: "I'm going to be president for the next four years. I hope." Did Obama let all those comparisons to Lincoln get to him?
It's rare but not uncommon to see movie stars in multiple Oscar-bait movies in the same year. But it's been a good end of 2012 for those guys who you recognize from somewhere but can't always place. Here are your character-actor MVPs.
Well here's one less thing to worry about: Mediators brokering talks between shipping companies and the International Longshoremens' Association say they've reached a deal that will avert a port strike that was set to begin on Sunday.
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