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...recent information indicates that the internet is not going to be the great savior of major media companies, at least not anytime soon. The management teams at these companies have believed that as their customers moved online to get access to news, sports information, entertainment, video, and advice, that advertising dollars would follow. As consumers started to view movies on the internet instead of in theaters all of the money from the old model could be replaced and then some, because people would be willing to pay for the convenience of watching a movie online. In the case of newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: False Hopes for Internet Profits | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...Handing out cash can be expensive, although all the governments of major countries are getting deeply into that business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Layoffs Start to Hurt U.S. Economy | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...enjoying perks like private jets - the Obama Administration has proposed a $500,000 pay limit for the top honchos of any company that accepts money from the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Said President Barack Obama: "We all need to take responsibility. And this includes executives at major financial firms who turned to the American people, hat in hand, when they were in trouble, even as they paid themselves their customary lavish bonuses." (See the worst business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama's Executive-Pay Limits Tame Wall Street? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...energetic, intelligent, and a great success,” Nye wrote in an e-mailed statement. “She is a remarkably talented person, and I am sure she will make a major contribution...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof. Power Tapped for NSC | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

While the sculpture’s brazen impudence is certainly comic and refreshingly devoid of political correctness, its presence at the center of a major political institution is simply inappropriate. To display an offensive piece like “Entropa” is to dangerously accentuate the political divisions it mocks...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: The Art of Tact | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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