BY LIANA B. BAKER (Reuters) – U.S. cable T.V. operator Cablevision Systems Corp (CVC.N) is planning to make an offer for the New York Daily News as early as this week, valuing the troubled tabloid at just $1, according to a person familiar with the matter. The offer would come one month after New York […]

This interview with Linda K. Zecherthe chief executive of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a publishing house that also provides educational content, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Were you in leadership roles or doing entrepreneurial things early on? A. I grew up in Middletown, Ohio. You can’t get any more middle class than that […]

By Vishal Pindoriya Jean Paul Sartre would have had a heyday living in the social media age. Which is more real, your physical existence or your digital existence? Who knows, and I’m not here to debate it either. The existentialist introduction was simply to set the atmosphere for the almost mystical question that I am here […]

byMarc Beaujean, Jonathan Davidson, and Stacey Madge In recent years, mature companies with far-flung networks of frontline sales staff—banks, retailers, airlines, and incumbent telecom providers, for example—have devoted a great deal of money and effort to retaining their current customers. As many academic studies have noted, the costs of doing so tend to be much lower […]

By Nick Hardiman There are lots of compelling reasons to work remotely — but some business leaders and employment experts argue that it’s better to work onsite.  Virtual teams — geographically scattered colleagues who use high-tech communication — are now common in many organizations. Some of those team members are remote workers and some still work […]

By RAVI SOMAIYA, MIKE ISAAC and VINDU GOEL Nothing attracts news organizations like Facebook. And nothing makes them more nervous. With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half […]

BY MONIQUE JESSEN  @moniquejessen Take the themes of love, power and revenge – stir in two gruesome murders, a prophecy of death and enough sexual innuendo to burn down the whole of Westeros – and there you have the first episode ofGame of Thrones season 5 (spoiler alert). Everyone’s favorite naughty dwarf, Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), is safe after killing […]

By Katherine Boehret  @KatieBoehret The Apple name is synonymous with success, from hardware home runs like the iPhone to software programs like iTunes. But what about those Apple software features that aren’t so successful, either because they’re too subtle to discover or were just big misses? This week, I rounded up eight examples of these to make sure […]

I had recently used Western Union to sent money to someone in Pakistan.  It is without a doubt the most reliable and efficient way to send money almost anywhere in the world. Their history is rich, having been traded on the stock exchange since 1865.  This is great American Institution and, according to some Wall […]

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade Was a Political Symbol in 19th Century New York  By Robert McNamara 19th Century History Expert The history of the St. Patrick’s Day parade began with modest gatherings in the streets of colonial America. And throughout the 19th century, large public celebrations to mark St. Patrick’s Day became potent political […]