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Today in show business news: the X-Men prequel gets all Avengers-y, Matthew McConaughey gets an actual acting nomination, and AMC gets to work on two new shows. Also: Brody must die.
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Today in show business news: Here's our first look at the old Oscar winners in Vegas comedy Last Vegas, HBO is heading to Silicon Valley, and The CW is trying to figure out Wonder Woman.
Today in show business news: the X-Men prequel gets all Avengers-y, Matthew McConaughey gets an actual acting nomination, and AMC gets to work on two new shows. Also: Brody must die.
After an election season that saw him become a (White) household name as his once-niche polling blog embarrassed the American punditocracy, Nate Silver and The New York Times can do pretty much anything they want — both he and his boss today agreed on that.
After a day of marathon talks that ran into Monday night, European finance ministers reached a deal that will allow Greece to receive more financial aid and temporarily stave off the chance of economic collapse.
If you have a case of the Cyber Mondays, you're probably asking yourself, "How do we stop the Cyber Train?" It is simple. Refuse to partake! Next week, try these instead.
Mary Schapiro, one of Barack Obama's first important economic appointments — who became one of his most controversial — will be leaving her post next month, and Obama has already replaced her.
Early indications suggest that this holiday shopping season could be the best we've seen in years, as more people spent money this holiday weekend and they spent more of it.
If there's anything that Walmart didn't need on Black Friday weekend, it was a jaw-dropping headline about somebody dying in their parking lot after a run-in with a couple of employees.
The BBC found itself without a director general after a pair of scandals led to the resignation of George Entwistle barely two months after he started the job. So, without a head, and facing questions about the future of the organization, the BBC hired the head of the Royal Opera House.
CNBC and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that the bankruptcy judge has cleared Hostess for liquidation. But what of our little yellow friend?
You had to know this was coming. ESPN has paid a whopping $6 billion to broadcast the new college-football playoff games — the ones that Obama was so keen to tell you about during the campaign.
The SEC and the FBI are investigating the writedown, after which we might have some answers on this charge. Until then, there are two ways to see this $8.8-billion meltdown—the HP way and the Autonomy way.
Nearly a month ago, Sandy slammed onshore and ruined things for a lot of people on the East Coast. The job market has now officially fallen victim as well, with unemployment claims hitting 410,000 today.
The debate over American corporation skipping out on their tax bills is getting serious as European leaders have started talking about serious things like actual trials.
Wrap your hope in cellophane and box it away for another year, because Hostess says its last ditch effort to make amends with its bakers' union "was unsuccessful."
The latest chapter in the Denny's-Obamacare saga: Denny's doesn't hate Obamacare like all those other allegedly conservative fast-food restaurants do — at least not the whole chain.
His mojo apparently having returned, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has officially agreed to buy a 49-percent stake in the New York Yankees' personal cable network, YES, with an option to take over 80 percent of the company in three years.
Last night the maker of lovable Twitter account @NYTOnIt announced that the actual New York Times got Twitter to suspend (it's since been reinstated) the account because they said the @NYTOnIt avatar violated copyright laws. Really, New York Times? Really?
Because of "serious accounting improprieties" Hewlett Packard is taking an $8.8 billion write-down on Autonomy, a company it acquired last year for $11.7 billion, which essentially wipes out all of its profits for last quarter.
There's a lot of explaining to do, and it's not just the phone-hacking anymore. British prosecutors announced brand-new, bribery-related charges against former Rupert Murdoch editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson on Tuesday.
Rupert Murdoch can apologize (as he sort of did) about his "Jewish-owned press" tweet, but he still can't take it back. And because that tweet is out there, the big question now is which press, exactly, he was referring to.
The college sports landscape is witnessing another big upheaval today as Maryland will leave the ACC to join the Big Ten, and is expected to quickly be joined there by Rutgers.
We're all supposed to hate Tina Brown. We get it. She's the queen of shock covers, she talks on the Amtrak quiet car, and completely sunk one of the most iconic magazines she was paid a lot to fix. So when we sat down with New York's Q&A with the Queen of Chaos last night we were prepared to hate but ....
Now that the dust has settled from last week's shakeup at the top of The Washington Post's masthead, New York Times media sage David Carr has a clearer view of what's happening at the paper, and it is not a pretty picture.
Lindsey Graham and Bobby Jindal both threw Mitt Romney under the Republican bus for his controversial "gifts" comments; John McCain said he'll go easier on Susan Rice if she admits she was wrong and advocated for Bill Clinton to lead the peace talks between Israel and Gaza.
Burberry got exclusive, American Express went small, and Pernod got all boozy in the Social Media Power Rankings this week.
After seeing the departure of its editor-in-chief Chris Anderson on November 2, Wired has announced that Scott Dadich—the magazine's former creative director from 2006-2010—will take over the magazine
Last night The New York Times dropped a blockbuster story: their new CEO Mark Thompson, who is just finishing his first week on the job, might be lying about how much he knew about sex abuse allegations while he was running the BBC. This morning all we can wonder about is how long we'll be referring to him as CEO.
Hostess, the maker of Wonder Bread and the world-famous Twinkies snack cakes, is planning to liquidate the entire company—and layoff 18,500 workers—after failing to reach a deal with its striking union.
Today's unemployment claims figures are out and they're huge: 439,000—that's the highest number in a year and a half, and close to an 80,000 jump from the previous week. And if you ask anyone, it's because of the natural disaster that hit the East Coast two weeks ago.
News Corp is reportedly in talks with the New York Yankees to acquire a minority stake in the confidently named YES Network.
You know those little vials of who-knows-what that TV bills as a healthier alternative to energy drinks? Turns out they might make you die.
The latest trend in Fiscal Cliff analysis is to point out that it's not actually a cliff at all.
Enough people are working from home in their beds (and, no, this is not a sex scandal thing) that Sue Shellenbarger has addressed it in a piece in The Wall Street Journal. "Is clacking away on a laptop while sprawling on bed sheets more comfortable and productive than hunching over a desk?" she asks. Of course it is! Right?
Middle America's favorite pizza chain got slapped with a $250 million class action lawsuit for sending spammy text messages to its customers without their permission.
The Washington Post is, like many papers, in bad business shape. That's a given. But today is one step at looking forward, as they found an editor in The Boston Globe's Martin Baron to replace executive editor Marcus Brauchli.
Monday through Friday, Details editor in chief Dan Peres commutes to work with The New York Times and home with The New York Post, and considers it a luxury that he can benefit from the media consumption of others.
That was quick. Less than a month after Windows 8 hit shelves slightly obscured by the flurry of mixed reviews, the software's chief architect Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company.
Bloomberg Businessweek has been getting high marks as of late for being funny, smart, and witty. However, this past weekend all that went missing when it asked where the hottest girls go to business school.
Daily News employees on Monday were told to expect their offices at 4 New York Plaza to be out of commission for nine months.
Brian Stelter of The New York Times reports that MSNBC is finally starting to catch up to Fox News in the ratings game, mainly by becoming the left-wing answer to Fox's conservative cheerleaders.
A Parliamentary committee will grill top executives from Amazon, Google and Starbucks on Monday about exactly how and why the companies have managed to pay appallingly low tax rates in the UK.
BBC director George Entwistle has resigned following a scandal plagued few weeks. The BBC has been taking a huge amount of criticism over their handling of two huge scandals that Entwistle was forced to tackle in the first seven weeks of his job.
In October we saw the highest Consumer Sentiment rating in five years. Guess what? We just topped that.
Wal-Mart unveiled its first plans for the holiday shopping season, which includes moving their Black Friday shopping deals earlier into Thanksgiving Thursday then they've ever been before.
Molson Coors, Canada's oldest and biggest beer company, has fallen on hard times in recent weeks, and it wants you to know that it's the NHL's fault.
Once again, Diane Sawyer helped to lead ABC's Election Night coverage, and once again, she appeared entirely intoxicated while doing so. At least, that's what Twitter thought.
So far, Bill O'Reilly is in the lead for the Controversial Election Day Rant Award with his bold statements on Fox News about how "the white establishment is now the minority."
The latest in the Carl Icahn-versus-Netflix saga has Icahn calling Netflix's poison pill measure "poor governance" in an SEC filing, which is exactly what we would expect Icahn to do, given his former dealings with companies like this.
Today in Poll Watch: National polls show the presidential race essentially tied. In the swing states, it's a mixed picture: Mitt Romney has the upper hand in Florida, the two are in a dead heat in Virginia, and President Obama is ahead in New Hampshire and Ohio. But that still means Romney's the underdog, because winning Virginia and Florida won't get him to 270 electoral votes.
Thanks to a complex network of offshore accounts and cleverly named subsidiaries, Apple, the world's most valuable company, paid just $713 million on its $36.8 billion in foreign earnings last quarter.
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