Madoff assaulted by another inmate in December: report

2010-03-17T20:00:12Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff, the swindler who orchestrated a multibillion dollar fraud, was attacked by another inmate at the federal prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.</p&...

US woman held in Ireland in plot to kill cartoonist

2010-03-12T23:15:54Z

<div><p>A second American Muslim woman has been arrested in Ireland on charges of conspiracy to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed, The Wall Street Journal reported.</p><p>The newspaper identified the woman as LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times' critic may have panned the film, but that didn't stop Disney from paying top dollar to turn the newspaper's front page into a special advertisement on Friday for the new...

Facebook CEO in no rush for IPO

2010-03-04T06:15:21Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is in no rush to take the popular social-networking site public, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>The 25-year-old CEO told the Journal in an interview that the company would eventu...

US Justice Department probing euro attacks: report

2010-03-03T13:16:31Z

<div><p>The US Department of Justice has become the latest government watchdog to probe allegations that traders have used the Greek debt crisis to collude in attacks on the euro.</p><p>The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported that at least four h...

Government to spend $25 billion to improve Internet access

2010-03-02T20:32:43Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission's plan to boost Americans' access to the Internet will propose up to $25 billion in new federal spending, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.</p><p>...

Dow Jones buys Hearst half of SmartMoney

2010-03-02T10:16:16Z

<div><p>News Corp.'s Dow Jones announced Tuesday that it had bought partner Hearst Corp.'s half of personal finance magazine SmartMoney.</p><p>The move gives Dow Jones, publisher of

Blockbuster exploring strategies to claw back: report

2010-02-23T22:30:05Z

<div><p>(Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc has hired a law firm and an investment bank to explore how the video rental firm can cut its $1 billion debt load, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>Law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges and the bank, U.S. Department of Energy says we'l...

New York Times To Charge For Web Content

2010-02-22T17:16:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Limited amount of content to still be free</div><div><p> The New York Times, like most big city dailies, is struggling to be profitable. To help the bottom line, the newspaper says it will begin charging readers for access to its now free online stories beginning in 2011. </p><p>In a novel approach, the Times ...

U.S. makes banks pay premium for warrant rebuys: report

2010-02-22T17:52:37Z

<div><p>(Reuters) - The Treasury Department persuaded some big banks to pay more than market estimates to repurchase warrants issued to the government in the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal said, citing a draft Treasury repo...

Italy's Ferrero 'drops bid for Britain's Cadbury'

2010-02-22T21:00:13Z

<div><p>Italian chocolate maker Ferrero has dropped out of the race to buy British confectioner Cadbury after deciding to end talks for a joint bid with US counterpart Hershey, a source said on Wednesday.</p><p>"The conditions are no longer i...

American Airlines ups JAL offer to $1.4 bln: report

2010-02-22T23:50:55Z

<div><p>TOKYO (Reuters) - American Airlines &lt;AMR.N&gt; has raised its offer of investment in Japan Airlines Corp &l...

Cambridge University considers first bond issue

2010-02-23T01:39:22Z

<div><p>Prestigious Cambridge University is considering a bond issue worth up to 300 million pounds, the first in its history and in line with top US Ivy League institutions, its finance director said Monday.</p><p>Andrew Reid said such an issue from the 800-year-old institution would be the biggest yet fro...

FBI probes cyber attack on Citigroup: report

2010-02-23T12:42:40Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a computer hacking that targeted Citigroup Inc and resulted in the theft of tens of million of dollars, Wall Street Journal names Blumenstein deputy managing editor of international operations</div><div><p>The Wall Street Journal has named WSJ.com managing editor Rebecca Blumenstein as its new deputy managing editor overseeing international operations.</p><p...

Sony to offer Wall Street Journal, New York Post on e-reader

2010-02-23T14:37:14Z

<div><p>Japan's Sony Corp., seeking to gain ground on Amazon's popular Kindle, said Thursday that it will begin offering The Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal's magazine to boost US circulation to 1.5 million, publish more often</div><div><p>The Wall Street Journal's glossy magazine, WSJ., is increasing its frequency and circulation starting in March.</p><p>The magazine will boost its U.S. circula...

Mongolia looks to foreign IPOs for mineral wealth: report

2010-02-23T18:17:52Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - Mongolia may eventually list state-owned mineral assets in international stock markets so that the country can convert more of its natural resource wealth into cash, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thur...

Newspapers push to reclaim their online identities

2010-02-23T21:21:33Z

<div><p>Newspaper editors and owners meeting in India have urged their industry to seize back the online publishing initiative from search engine "parasites" living off their work.</p><p>Speaker after speaker at the ongoing three-day World Newspaper Congress in the southern city of Hyderabad has argued that the current crisis in the newspaper industr...

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