WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc and Google Inc agreed to a deal over how Internet traffic will be treated, two people familiar with the agreement said on Wednesday. The deal centers on a set of rules, called net neutrality, that determines how Internet traffic moves over land lines and to wireless devices involving payment [...]
With U.S. stocks rising convincingly over the past month, fund managers and analysts making the rounds on business TV channels are again openly day-dreaming that retail investors, safely parked in bonds over the past two years, will finally come out to play. Dream on. Their PR exercise is based on the idea that stock market [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Harman, the 91-year-old founder of audio equipment maker Harman International Industries Inc., has agreed to buy Newsweek, ending a nearly half-century chapter for the magazine as part of The Washington Post Co. Jon Meacham, the magazine’s top editor since 2006, will step down. Newsweek has been struggling to find a [...]