The New York Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest energy trading market, is reaching overseas to give traders the ability to bet on the skyrocketing cost of shipping commodities such as coal, steel and iron ore. Nymex, which has been riding a...
Jack Ford, the son of the late President Gerald Ford, is teaming up with magazine entrepreneur Don Welsh to launch a new publishing company, Mountain Time Publishing. They plan to produce a bi-weekly glossy lifestyle magazine, Mountain Time, that...
Google sued Google Inc. faces a fed eral patent infringement lawsuit over technology used in its core Web search system, according to legal papers filed in Texas last week. The plaintiffs are Northeast ern University and Jarg Corp., a...
Walt Disney Co. boss Bob Iger wants the Mouse House to grab a bigger piece of the video game business and plans to do it by stealing a page from its music strategy. In much the same way that the company uses the Disney Channel as a launch pad for...
The top three U.S. banks have agreed on the structure of a backup fund of at least $75 billion to stabilize credit markets, according to reports. Citing a person involved in the discussions, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the New York Times...
When it comes to the giant cable companies, Sprint Nextel's new battle cry may be, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." The nation's third-largest wireless carrier just announced that its $5 billion plan to develop the first ultra-fast "fourth...
Google may give its television ambitions a much-needed jolt by teaming up with Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur behind the Spice Girls and "American Idol." The Internet giant has been in talks with Fuller for about a year about a pact that...
We've come to turn to our media goddesses - Oprah, Martha and Rachael - for how to cook, to be empowered, even on how to arrange our bedroom pillows. Goddesses, though, must be feared, and there's something a little intimidating about an entire...
