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• Time Inc veteran to expand Bloomberg magazine

  Financial Times - 2009-06-24

  Bloomberg is planning a print and online expansion of its magazine operation, after the deep-pocketed data group signed the latest in a series of veteran executives from rival media organisations.Michael Dukmejian, who was named publisher of Bloomberg Markets magazine on Wednesday, spent 26 years at Time Inc, the Time...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Magazine, Company News, Strategy, Financial Times

• Economics Trifecta: Leading Indicators and Unemployment Look Up

  BNET - 2009-06-18

  Unlike the conflicting signals we have seen for so long in the economic news, June 18 gave us three clear positive signs on important statistics. First, The Conference Board's release of the Index of Leading Economic Indicators LEI jumped to 54.9, up from about 40 in April. (The normal, baseline...

  Tags: Graph, Bloomberg L.P., Unemployment Insurance, Corporate Governance, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, John Keefe

• AdMob's Growing Success Attracts Suitors

  Content Next - 2009-06-16

  AdMob, the mobile phone ad network that has been riding high on the success of the iPhone, expects its sales to double this year, which Bloomberg reports has piqued the interest of potential acquirers. CEO Omar Hamoui told the newswire that two suitors approached the company this year, and...

  Tags: Advertisement, Bloomberg L.P., AdMob, Companies, Apple, Mobile Adv & Mktg, Dianne See Morrison

• Interview: Mint.com CEO Patzer On His Plans To Boost Sales Ten-Fold This Year

  Content Next - 2009-06-09

  In under two years, Mint.com has emerged as the most popular website in online money management, racking up more traffic than competitors like Wesabe and Geezeo. A month ago, CEO Aaron Patzer told Bloomberg News that he expected the company's revenue to increase by 10-fold this year. The...

  Tags: Revenue, Financial, Yahoo! Inc., User Data, Bloomberg L.P., Sales, Mint, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Money, VC+M&A, Venture Capital, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.

• Treasury Silence Freaks out Housing Market

  BNET - 2009-06-09

  Q: What's up with mortgage rates? Didn't they just move again after an unprecedented one week run-up? A: Yes, they did. "Up" is definitely the key word here. My sources say that not in their memories (and some of my sources, may they forgive...

  Tags: Housing Market, Bloomberg L.P., Web Site Development, Internet, Alison Rogers

• Early (Rumored) Stress Test Results

  BNET - 2009-05-06

  Why wait a whole day for the official results of the stress tests when there are rumors to spread? You've already heard that 10 of the 19 banks need dough, so here's a roundup of what's being bantered around 24 hours prior to the release of the...

  Tags: Bank, Bloomberg L.P., Citigroup Inc., Bank Need, Financial Services, Jill Schlesinger

• Sanofi CEO Viehbacher Wants More Cuts; Drug Reps' Necks on the Block

  BNET - 2009-02-10

  Sanofi-Aventis's Q4 earnings call tomorrow could set the stage for a dramatic few days at the company, according to Bloomberg, as CEO Chris Viehbacher told analysts and his staff that Sanofi needs to cut operating costs and possibly buy a small or midsize firm. Viehbacher wants to get $1.3 billion...

  Tags: Revenue, Layoff, Pfizer Inc., Stock, Bloomberg L.P., CEO, Sanofi, Operational Accounting, Workforce Management, Finance, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Food Roundup: Busch-InBev Cuts U.S. Jobs, Whole Foods Sues FTC, McDonald's Sales Spike, And More

  BNET - 2008-12-08

  Anheuser Busch-InBev Cuts 1,400 U.S. Jobs -- The world's largest brewer announced a restructuring that will reduce its workforce by 2,000. Most of the U.S. cuts come at the company's corporate headquarters. [Source: Bloomberg News] Whole Foods Sues FTC -- The premium grocer says the agency...

  Tags: Food, Bloomberg L.P., Whole Foods, FTC, McDonald's Corp., Food & Beverage, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales Strategy, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Sales, Dan Mitchell

• Retail Roundup: Macy's CEO Says Debt Can Be Paid Down, (Very) Black Friday for Online Retailers

  BNET - 2008-12-01

  Macy's CEO says debt can be paid down -- Macy's Inc. doesn't plan to close many locations, CEO Terry Lundgren said in a Nov. 28 interview with Bloomberg Television, adding that the second-biggest U.S. department-store chain can pay down debt with cash. "We plan no giant wholesale closings," he said....

  Tags: Retail Company, Bloomberg L.P., CEO, Macy, Retail, Danielle Novy

• 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