These stars got their start on Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’
Before he was Michael Scott of NBC’s “The Office,” Steve Carell was also a correspondent for Stewart from 1999 to 2005. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market…
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Walmart is winning Canada
Target is not the only U.S. retailer having troubles up north. Sears (SHLD), Best Buy (BBY)and Big Lots (BIG) have recently closed stores in Canada as well. Related: Target Canada…
English soccer is now world’s 2nd richest sport
Sky (SKYAY) forked out £4.1 billion ($6.3 billion) for the rights to show live 126 of the 168 matches per season until 2019, while rival BT (BT) paid £960 million…
Brian Williams Suspended by NBC News for Six Months
Brian Williams, the embattled NBC news anchor whose credibility plummeted after he acknowledged exaggerating his role in a helicopter incident in Iraq, was suspended for six months without pay, the…
Tesla's China Business Faces Varied Challenges
BEIJING — For $104,000, Yu Hangmei expected a car that could, at the very least, be driven. What Ms. Yu said she got instead was a new electric Tesla Model…
Apple To Power New Headquarters With Solar Energy
Apple is going green in a big way. CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday that the company would power its new corporate headquarters with energy from a 2,900-acre solar farm being…
How To Feel Like You Have More Time, In Just 11 Seconds
I did something shameful Monday morning because I felt pressed for time, but if I had just taken 11 seconds to breathe I could’ve avoided the whole mishegas. In a…
Billionaire Philanthropist Suspends $1 Million Prize For Urban School Districts
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A foundation started by philanthropist Eli Broad has suspended a national prize awarded annually to a top-performing urban school system. The $1 million award was pulled…
Japan Is Considering Making Vacation Mandatory. The U.S. Should, Too
Japan wants to cut off its workaholics, and America could learn a thing or two from the proposal. A measure slated to come before Japan’s parliament sometime in the next…
Job Openings Jump To Highest Levels Since 2001
“Help wanted” signs are popping up everywhere: There were more than 5 million jobs available in the U.S. at the end of 2014, the highest number since early 2001, the…
Do Activist Investors Target Women C.E.O.s?
Indra K. Nooyi. Marissa Mayer. Ellen J. Kullman. Irene B. Rosenfeld. Meg Whitman. Mary T. Barra. What do these women have in common? They are the chief executives of some…
At This Office, The Break Room Is A Giant Ball Pit
If a meeting gets boring at a certain London office, or if someone just needs to take a break, employees head to their giant ball pit. Read the whole story…
Amy Pascal to Work on Sony’s Spider-Man Team
LOS ANGELES — Amy Pascal may be giving up the Sony Pictures crown, but she’s keeping the jewels. In a deal announced late Monday, Ms. Pascal will join the producing…
Meet The Man Who Wants To Build The ESPN Of Finance
Keith McCullough is nothing if not committed. “For better or worse, I’ll die here,” he says in reference to Hedgeye Risk Management, the independent investment research firm he founded in…
Can J.C. Penney and Sears avoid RadioShack’s fate?
J.C. Penney ended the third quarter with $684 million, down from more than $1 billion at the end of the second quarter. Sears had just $326 million in cash at…
Samsung says its eavesdropping TV works like Siri
Only those voice commands activated by a button-press on the remote are sent over the internet. A company called Nuance (NUAN), maker of Dragon speech-to-text software, converts that voice data…
You can now get your hands on this super-rare Android phone
People who buy their phones on Tuesdays will receive invites to share with their friends. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time,…
Who will replace Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’?
The actress was the Senior Asian Correspondent for “The Daily Show” from 2010 to 2011 before leaving to star on HBO’s drama “The Newsroom.” Munn would also inject some much…
Home Depot is looking for 80,000 part-time and seasonal workers
Home Depot has openings in most U.S. states, with the bulk of them concentrated on the coasts and the Great Lakes region. Related: Obama jobs — caregivers, servers and temps
Inditex bans angora wool products
Inditex has now joined a list of global brands such as ASOS (ASOMF), H&M (HMRZF) and Calvin Klein that shun the material. One of the last major brands still using…
Coke CEO calls 2015 a ‘transition year’
Most notably, Coke said that sales in North America rose largely due to what it called a “rational approach to pricing.” Coke has been raising prices of its products in…
NBC’s fact-checking of Brian Williams will be finished ‘sooner rather than later’
At least one NBC correspondent is also involved: Kate Snow, a national correspondent who joined NBC from ABC in 2010. When Williams had a prime time newsmagazine called “Rock Center,”…
Don’t file a ‘frivolous’ tax return, the IRS warns. If you do, penalties will follow.
Any taxpayer, of course, is free to contest his tax liabilities. “But no one has the right to disobey the law or disregard their responsibility to pay taxes,” the IRS…
Google wants you to kick this robot puppy
“I know it’s not sentient, but I’d have a twinge of guilt after kicking it,” said Reddit user euratowel. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are…
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes Apple Watch will help people live healthier lives
Related: The Apple Watch will flop. Here’s why – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed…
Tim Cook to address hacking at White House summit
It’s just the latest example of how Apple waits too long to fix bugs and fails to update its customers when a major vulnerability needs to be addressed. Apple sometimes…
UK’s Cameron: Companies should give workers a pay rise
The opposition Labour Party is focusing on what it calls a “cost of living crisis,” and says working people are now £1,600 a year worse off than they were in…
Read NBC’s statement on Brian Williams’ suspension
Related: How Brian Williams’ Iraq story changed In addition, we have concerns about comments that occurred outside NBC News while Brian was talking about his experiences in the field. –…
JetBlue to be the first airline to accept Apple Pay payments in flight
It also will give crew members access to a passenger manifest, flight data and frequent flier account information, which will let them know when to wish a passenger a happy…
Israeli startup’s unique cybercrime solution
Then, Team8 assembles a team of “founders” to work on that particular problem, like a startup. The startups won’t have to worry about raising moneyTeam8 will fund the first two…