Peddling fake purses and perfume out of the trunk of a beat-up Citroen is bad enough. But the French draw the line when it happens on the Internet. So, a A French court yesterday ordered online auction giant eBay to pay $61 million in damages to the French luxury goods company LVMH, in the latest ro...

Why does the news today that Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old popular star of Hannah Montana, is pissed because of the pictures that resulted form a recent photo shoot for Vanity Fair magazine with the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz, not surprise me? Because it's obviously just a great big public...

More news that all is not well at Starbuck's with the announcement on Thursday that they have taken a major step back from their music and book business by handing over day-to-day management of its year-old music label to Concord Music Group, as they strive to contain costs and rejuvenate its coffee...

I am convinced the stock market is a giant casino, where no one, particularly people in the so-called financial industry, has a clue about what the hell is going on... Apple on Wednesday reported a fiscal second-quarter profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 a share, on $7.51 billion in revenue. During t...

I posted a while ago about the debacle that Katie Couric's news anchor career was turning into and that she was in negotiations with CBC to leave her $15 million Evening news spot in the near future. At the time it was being suggested that she might take over from Larry King on CNN when his contract...

Today's Wall Street Journal has a story about how Mattel is struggling to breathe life back into Barbie--more than a year after problems surfaced. A great illustration of the tough job the toy industry faces in attracting the fickle attention of young girls. They've tried all kinds of gimmicks to m...

Not that long ago online tracking company comScore sent a shiver through the stock market when it released figures showing signs of the economic slowdown weighing on Google, as evidenced by a continuing deceleration of ad click-through rates. Even though comScore came out a few days later with a mor...

Very funny to read that while Yahoo's board has instructed management to keep meeting with Microsoft and with Time Warner, to work out a possible deal, Frank Quattrone reportedly has been enlisted as an advisor to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Google has hired Quattrone's law firm, the Qatalyst Group, to...