Yelp may be playing chicken with one of the Internet's biggest players. Last week, Google was said to be close to buying the popular review site for $550 million. But word leaked out yesterday that Yelp's chief backed out at the last minute. CEO ...
MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan apologized yesterday for his "very rude" conduct last week during an interview on health care with a Florida congresswoman. Saying he was frustrated by Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz's explanation of health-care reform, ...
Goldman Sachs is so angry over a steep bonus surcharge being levied in London that it is vowing to move more than 1,000 highly paid employees to Spain. Under new rules, Goldman would have to pay a 50-percent tax on any employee bonuses over about ...
It was already popular -- and now it may finally be profitable. Twitterwill eke out a small profit this year, thanks to search deals with Google and Microsoft's Bing, according to a new report. That's bound to raise eyebrows among the company's d...
What a difference an arrest can make. When the FBI busted hedge fund whiz Danielle Chiesi on charges of insider trading, she looked straight out of central casting for a prison flick. Her stringy, slicked-back hair, bloated face and dumpy sweat...
It's presumptuous to guess what the city's real estate kings and queens would like to find in their holiday stockings. Presumptuous, but too much fun not to -- so we'll go way out on a limb and suggest which players deserve which gifts. No refunds, ...
Warrants the US holds in Citigroup Inc., once the most valuable bank in the nation, may provide the lowest return for taxpayers who stepped in with $45 billion to save the company when no one else would. The Treasury Department, which delayed plans...
You probably couldn't expect a straight answer to this question: "Mr. Bernanke, is someone rigging the stock market?" Ben Bernanke, the current and probably future head of the Federal Reserve, was asked that loaded question (and a bunch of others) ...
A month into his 17-year marriage to his current wife, ultra-secretive hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen spilled his guts to a TV talk-show host about his fractious, on-again-off-again relationship with his first wife, and how she loomed large over...
GM names GM, reaching outside the company and the auto industry for a new chief financial officer, hired Microsoft Corp.'s Chris Liddell as vice chairman and CFO. Lid dell, 51, takes his new post effective Jan. 1.AIG pay Bailed-out insurer AIG wa...
