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Jet engines boost GE's earnings
Saturday 23 July 2011
General Electric notched a better-than-expected 22 per cent rise in earnings, helped by strong demand for jet engines as well as equipment used in oil and natural gas production.
Business diary: Raj's lawyer gets cross
Monday 16 May 2011
CNBC was keen to catch up with John Dowd, attorney to Raj Rajaratnam, after last week's guilty verdict in the Galleon insider trading case. And though the business channel's viewers didn't get the benefit of Mr Dowd's views for long, a clip of what he did say is now being passed round online. "Do you have comment for CNBC?," the cameraman asks. To which Mr Dowd replies "Get the fuck out of here. That's what I've got for CNBC."
Universal joy as 'Potter World' bewitches public
Monday 10 January 2011
Florida's popular Universal Studios theme park is celebrating vast success for its new Harry Potter attraction since it opened a few months ago.
Stephen Foley: Oprah always gets her way but is her TV venture all it's cracked up to be?
Saturday 01 January 2011
US Outlook: Today is Oprah's big day. After 25 years hosting the daytime talk show that made her the most influential woman in showbusiness and the US's first black billionaire, Oprah Winfrey launches her own TV channel.
The Business On... Keith Olbermann, Presenter, MSNBC
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Didn't he just get fired?
NBC's pitch-perfect Community rarely falters
Friday 23 July 2010
Sometimes it's hard to work out why television programme chiefs buy in certain foreign shows and completely overlook others. For example, why did E4 buy the dull One Tree Hill, but not the savvy Veronica Mars? Why has no one picked up the charming Bored to Death or the clever Party Down? Why was there no interest in United States of Tara, despite a script by Juno's Diablo Cody and the presence of Toni Collette in the lead role?
Stephen Foley: Why Comcast deal could be a horror show
Sunday 06 December 2009
When Brian Roberts unveiled Comcast's $30bn deal to take control of NBC Universal this week, he declared his cable TV and internet firm had become a leader in the "anytime, anywhere" media that American consumers are demanding.
GE set to buy Vivendi's NBC Universal stake for $5.8bn
Wednesday 02 December 2009
General Electric has agreed to buy the French media conglomerate Vivendi's 20 per cent stake in NBC Universal for $5.8bn (£3.5bn), paving the way for the US company to sell control of the TV and movie company to Comcast.
NBC set for stock-market float as Vivendi mulls sale of stake
Friday 18 September 2009
NBC Universal, the US movies and television giant, could be floated in a scheme under consideration at its parent company, General Electric (GE). The company is drawing up contingency plans for an initial public offering next year, if French media company Vivendi decides to sell its 20 per cent stake.
I took a risk, admits mother of octuplets
Saturday 07 February 2009
Woman at centre of row breaks silence to defend multiple birth
Hollyweird: Russ Columbo
Friday 05 December 2008
The story of the demise of Russ Columbo is one of the weirdest in Hollywood history.
Amid the TV turmoil, it's always good news at CNBC
Sunday 14 September 2008
Advertising may be falling off a cliff across the industry, says Raymond Snoddy, but there's no slowdown at the global business channel
Rank plans pounds pounds 1bn sale of video arm
Monday 02 November 1998
RANK, THE troubled leisure group, is preparing to sell Deluxe, its video duplication business, for a figure approaching pounds 1bn.
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