Restaurant proprietors are on the lookout for a tax man of a different sort.
Performance rights organizations (PROs) such as ASCAP, BMI, and SESACare ramping up efforts to collect …
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Nike vs Adidas: The battle for buzz in the World Cup.
by Adam Anderson, June 25, 2010, 10:28 amAll right, all right World Cup. Take it easy. It took a while, but you finally won me over.
For starters, those weird, eerie South African horns (vuvuzelas) were annoying. Turns out they might …
Labels circle AEG Live
by Lee Simmons, June 24, 2010, 10:26 amLate last week the New York Post reported that at least three of the four major labels–Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music–were in talks to acquire …
Fake concert tickets proliferate
by Lee Simmons, June 17, 2010, 1:23 pmHave you purchased a concert ticket in the past 12 months? If so, then there’s a 1-in-10 chance you bought a fake one.
Recent research by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading …
Eureka! Golden State GOP voters flock to wealthy ex-CEOs
by Jeff Dorsch, June 9, 2010, 8:40 amSilicon Valley went 2-for-3 in yesterday’s primary elections in California.
No doubt you have heard by now of the primary victories by Meg Whitman, who scored the Republican nomination …
More of Lehman’s art work to hit the auction block
by Laura Huchzermeyer, June 7, 2010, 3:49 pmNearly two years after Lehman Brothers hit rock bottom and dragged the rest of the economy down with it, there are still remnants of the financial giant still being sold off.
This fall venerable auction house …
If you don’t know Buzz Media, you will soon
by Lee Simmons, June 2, 2010, 12:51 pmIn a down economy, the cash-heavy business is well-served to scout for deals. So it goes in the online space as well. Entertainment publisher Buzz Media, purveyor of such Web destinations as KimKardashian.com …
Coming soon to an investment house near you (possibly): Movie futures trading
by Laura Huchzermeyer, May 20, 2010, 1:19 pm***UPDATE***
You too can make money on movie blockbusters (and box office flops as well). Or, at least that is what a few financial firms (and even fewer in the film biz) are hoping for.
Cantor Exchange (owned by …
Facebook, Spotify say “I do”
by Lee Simmons, April 28, 2010, 3:14 pmFacebook’s plan to allow Spotify users to upload and share music on the social networking service marks the latest musical marriage of two online media titans. Well, Spotify isn’t exactly …
Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
by Jeff Dorsch, April 23, 2010, 2:08 pmMore on the last-factory-closing beat: The last US factory exclusively canning sardines abruptly closed this month in Prospect Harbor, Maine. Bumble Bee Foods, which operated the cannery, chiefly blamed the federal limit on …
