I’VE had a long career as a business journalist, beginning at Forbes and including eight years as the editor of Money, a personal finance magazine. But I’ve never faced a more confounding reporting challenge than the one I’m engaged in now: What will I pay next year for the pill that controls my blood cancer? After making more than 70 phone calls to 16 organizations over the past few weeks,...
When home security salesman comes knocking, beware
Label: Business Door-to-door sellers of home alarm systems are required by the state to have passed a criminal background check and have...
Dec
01
Jovan Belcher of Kansas City Chiefs dead in suspected murder-suicide
Label: World Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs shot and killed his girlfriend, then drove to the team’s practice facility and killed...
Sony’s radical PlayStation 4 controller concept: A motion-control device you can split in half
Label: TechnologyWhile Nintendo (NTDOY) has been busy innovating with unique controllers on the Wii and Wii U, Sony’s (SNE) DualShock controller for its PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 has remained virtually the same since 1997. A newly discovered patent reveals Sony might be planning on a radical overhaul of the DualShock for the PlayStation 4 that’s rumored to arrive next year. U.S. patent 20120302347A1...
JLo tones down concert in Indonesia
Label: LifestyleJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Jennifer Lopez wowed thousands of fans in Indonesia, but they didn't see as much of her as concertgoers in other countries — the American pop star toned down both her sexy outfits and her dance moves during her show in the world's most populous Muslim country, promoters said Saturday.Lopez's "Dance Again World Tour" was performed in the country's capital, Jakarta, on Friday...
Sharon Stone sells Beverly Crest compound for $6.575 million
Label: BusinessHot Properties columnist Lauren Beale talks with Chad Rogers, an agent with Hilton & Hyland in Beverly Hills, about real estate deals in Venice, Malibu, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. ...
Nov
30
Tennis umpire Lois Goodman wants job back after murder case dropped
Label: World Professional tennis umpire Lois Goodman, who had been accused by prosecutors of killing her 80-year-old husband, will now try...
Study: DVRs now in half of US pay-TV homes
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK (AP) — A new survey finds that digital video recorders are now in more than half of all U.S. homes that subscribe to cable or satellite TV services.Leichtman Research Group‘s survey of 1,300 households found that 52 percent of the ones that have pay-TV service also have a DVR. That translates to about 45 percent of all households and is up from 13.5 percent of all households surveyed five...
No charges against Chris Brown in Fla. phone grab
Label: LifestyleMIAMI (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown will not face criminal charges for snatching a woman's cellphone when she tried to snap a photo of him outside a Miami Beach club, prosecutors said Friday.A memo released Friday by Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle concludes there is no evidence that Brown intended to steal the phone in February or that he deleted any photos....
Labor talks for L.A., Long Beach ports run late; strike continues
Label: Business Skeletal picket teams of just one or two union members per cargo terminal are maintaining a strike vigil amid sporadic rain...
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