Facebook Stock Finishes Flat in Debut The New York Times | NEW YORK (AP) — In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initi...
Michael Rosenbaum, Award-Winning CBS Producer, Dies at 64 The New York Times | Michael Rosenbaum, an Emmy-winning CBS News producer who served as Tel Aviv bureau chief during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 64. | The cause was a brain tumor, CBS News said. | Mr....
Rising Greek Political Star, Foe of Austerity, Puts Europe on Edge The New York Times | ATHENS — At 37, and looking not a bit his years, Alexis Tsipras is clearly enjoying his moment. He vaulted to prominence less than two weeks ago, when his previously obscure left-wing party placed second in national elections with the promise...
Chesapeake Energy to Cut Directors’ Pay The New York Times | A blog about energy and the environment. Go to Blog » Add to Portfolio | Chesapeake Energy Corporation | Go to your Portfolio » | The natural gas and oil producer Chesapeake Energy said that it would cut the pay of outside directors on its bo...
Facebook Builds Network of Friends in Washington The New York Times | SAN FRANCISCO — For nearly five years, Facebook has quietly and deftly befriended the nation’s top lawmakers by giving them a little tech support. Enlarge This Image Facebook | Representative Bob Goodlatte, center, with Joel Kaplan, lef...
With Natural Gas Plentiful and Cheap, Carbon Capture Projects Stumble The New York Times | WASHINGTON — A federal proposal to ban the construction of coal-fired power plants that release all of their carbon dioxide into the atmosphere would seem to smooth the way for carbon capture, a budding technology that traps the greenhouse ga...
A War of Words Over Euro Crisis The New York Times | BERLIN — A telephone conversation on Friday between Germany’s chancellor and Greece’s president became the latest flashpoint in the war of words between Berlin and Athens in the unfolding crisis over Greece’s membership in t...
Reaching Out to Avoid Someone The New York Times | WE were having dinner at a friend’s house the other week and her phone rang. She came back annoyed, reporting that it was a telemarketing call. Enlarge This Image Horace Cort/Associated Press | That led to a discussion of phones and sales cal...
Credit Flows Through a New Channel for Europe The New York Times | FRANKFURT — Among the midsize, family-owned companies that power the German economy, it has long been an article of faith: Credit comes from the friendly local banker, not from cold and distant capital markets. | So Peter H. Leibold was break...
Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice? The Daily Beast May 6, 2012 1:38 PM EDT | Despite his populist posturing, the president has failed to pin a single top finance exec on criminal charges since the economic collapse. Are the banks too big to jail—or is Washington’s revolving door at to blame? Peter J. Boyer and Peter Schweizer investigate: Obama’s 2009 White House summit with finance titans, i...
