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• Ex-BusinessWeek EIC Adler Joins Thomson Reuters

  PaidContent - 2009-12-02

  Stephen J. Adler, who resigned his post as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek shortly after the magazine’s sale to Bloomberg, is taking a new role at Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI). Adler will become SVP and editorial director of the news service’s Professional division, which covers Legal, Tax & Accounting, and...

  Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., BusinessWeek, Bloomberg L.P., Taxes, Free Trade, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Personal Finance, Healthcare, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Reuters, David Kaplan

• Bloomberg: Poverty and Pension Fears Drive Elderly Japanese to Crime

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-17

  Trader Mark submits: We wrote a few weeks ago [Oct 28: Pooring of Japan Too?] how we were seeing some troubling similarities in Japan to the US - growth in working poor, temporary employment allowing pay without benefits, income gaps increasing after free market reforms, et al. Now comes this...

  Tags: Japan, Income, Health Care, Bloomberg L.P., Seeking Alpha, Trader Mark, Operational Accounting, Government, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

• Cambridge advises against procrastination

  - 2008-08-13

  A new Bloomberg News survey predicts that economic expansion in the fourth quarter will most likely slow to the weakest pace observed in six years, and this may not be as bad as it gets. At Morgan Stanley Co., Richard Berner, co-head of global economics, describes the credit crunch,...

  Tags: Benefits, Bloomberg L.P., Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, HEALTHCARE, Mortgages, SOFTWARE, Taxes

• Bloomberg a new twist in 2008 White House tale

  - 2007-06-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's exit from the Republican Party sparked a fresh look at an age-old question: is America ready to elect a president who disdains partisan politics? The billionaire businessman, and one-time Democrat, quit the party on Tuesday, sparking immediate speculation he plans to...

  Tags: America, Bloomberg L.P., Democrat, HEALTHCARE, president, Republican, White House

• Bloomberg deserts Republicans, stirs talk of 2008 run

  - 2007-06-19

  NEW YORK AFP — Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday he was quitting the Republican Party, sparking immediate speculation he was plotting an independent bid for the White House in 2008. Bloomberg, who could pump tens of millions of his own dollars into a campaign, has the...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, Republican, White House

• In Brief

  - 2007-05-24

  Nektar makes cuts San Carlos-based Nektar Therapeutics said it's cutting spending by $65 million a year, and cutting jobs, to "ensure financial stability." Nektar also said Chief Financial Officer Louis Drapeau, 62, will leave the company in the coming months, according to a statement Wednesday. The company...

  Tags: Benefits, Bloomberg L.P., HEALTHCARE, Kaiser Permanente, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., SOFTWARE

• Miriam P. Hardy and the late William G. Hardy were honored by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health for their pioneering work in the communicative sciences and the establishment of the William and Miriam Hardy Scholarship in the C

  - 2007-02-13

  Miriam P. Hardy and the late William G. Hardy were honored by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health for their pioneering work in the communicative sciences and the establishment of the William and Miriam Hardy Scholarship in the Communicative Sciences. A plaque memorializing...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., HEALTHCARE, Johns Hopkins University

• Business news in brief

  - 2007-01-17

  IN THE REGION N.J. court clears way for Vioxx class-action suit... A New Jersey appellate court panel opened the door yesterday to a potential class-action lawsuit against Merck & Co. Inc. on behalf of people who took its now-withdrawn pain reliever Vioxx and want the company to pay for tests...

  Tags: Associated Press, Biotechnology, Bloomberg L.P., FairPoint Communications Inc., FINANCE, Harrah, HEALTHCARE, Manufacturing, Merck & Co. Inc., NCR Corp.

• Business news in brief

  - 2006-10-24

  IN THE REGION Keystone Helicopter to sell its medical unit to Seacor Keystone Helicopter Corp., of Coatesville, said yesterday that it had reached an agreement to sell its flight-services division, which operates 35 aircraft for medical operations on the East Coast and in Puerto Rico. The division, which employs 200...

  Tags: aircraft, Amazon.com Inc., Associated Press, Benefits, Bloomberg L.P., FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Investment, Manufacturing, Pennsylvania, salary

• Business news in brief

  - 2006-09-16

  IN THE REGION Carpenter Technology to raise nickel surcharge Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, said its Specialty Alloys division is raising its surcharge on products that use nickel from 30 cents a pound to 38 cents a pound. World nickel prices have increased 23 percent so far this year, to $9.56...

  Tags: alloy, Bloomberg L.P., carpenter, FINANCE, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., HEALTHCARE, Hewlett-Packard Co., Megadata Corp., Temple University