First of two articles Happy Valentine’s Day, honey. Instead of going out to an overpriced dinner in a restaurant crowded with a few dozen other tired, tense couples, how about we stay in and binge? On “House of Cards,” season 2. Netflix today posted all 13 episodes of the much-anticipated second season of the Kevin […]
Comcast’s Bold Bid: Brilliant or Betrayal?
Let’s admit it: No one reads “all” of anything anymore, nor wants to do so. It isn’t that we don’t have the time, it’s that we don’t make the time. So here are a few fast, quick thoughts on Comcast’s $45B bid for Time Warner Cable, one of the biggest media deals in years. In fewer than 600 words.
Mouse Roars Consumers Uneasy
Dennis Kneale on the Disney company’s 33% lift in quarterly profits. Display:
Raising the Minimum Wage: Real Fix or Political Posturing?
Sounding off on the minimum-wage debate. view
What does Facebook do right that Twitter does wrong?
Undertone CEO Eric Franchi compares Facebook’s service to Twitter’s. view
How to Spot Online Scammers
Markmonitor chief marketing officer Frederick Felman on how to avoid online scammers selling fake goods. view
Disney 1Q earnings top estimates
Earnings HQ: Dennis breaks down DIS’s first-quarter earnings report. view
Kneale on the DoomSayers: Peter Schiff
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Peter David Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker, author and financial commentator. Schiff is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut.
Kneale to Feds: Stay Out of Mortgage Mess
I should have listened to her. Cut to early 2008, brunch at the self-consciously hip Coffee Shop in Manhattan, where the wait staff waits to be discovered by Hollywood, fashion or the next reality TV show. April Charney, a legal-aid lawyer for defaulting homeowners in Jacksonville, Fla., is talking in ominous, apocalyptic tones about the […]
Cisco’s Stimulus Plan Won’t Cost You One Dollar
Just spoke to Cisco chief executive John Chambers here at CNBC headquarters, and he has a new stimulus plan for America—one guaranteed to create hundreds of billions of dollars in cash flow without costing the taxpayer a single dollar in new spending. The Obama administration wants to “crack down” on tax loopholes to skim a […]