Napster waits for business to boom
Napster Inc., the file-sharing company with the groovy name and a checkered past, may be legitimate now, but that's no guarantee of long-term success. The company has been burning through...
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No hard and fast answers on steel
Steel investors are now confident enough in an industry once left for dead to ponder a rebound after a relatively short downturn. That's a far cry from late 2001, when...
`I’ll be on my guard until next week’
Two students lounged in shorts and sandals, a harried mother pushed a cart overloaded with suitcases, and a pair of middle-aged men bent against the weight of the duffel bags...
Bankers may put up a fight over NYSE deal
Billionaire investment banker Kenneth Langone met Monday with leaders of some the nation's largest investment banks who feel that the proposed merger of the New York Stock Exchange with Chicago-based...
Eulogies laud his resolve, example
Under gray skies, a chilly rain and heavy security, thousands of worshipers crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue Sunday to mourn Pope John Paul II. Speaking at a...
Networks steer clear of woes seen in 2000
Compared with the 2000 election, when every television network wrongly projected first Vice President Al Gore, and then George W. Bush, the winner in Florida, the networks put in a...
Hefner pushes his man for Playboy revival
Hugh Hefner may finally have found his man. By choosing Christopher Napolitano, a 16-year Playboy veteran, as his new editorial director, Hefner sent a clear message: It's still his magazine....
Radio facing music of change
Radio listenership is down, revenue growth is anemic, and complaints about programming are omnipresent. But the radio industry, said Stephen Soboroff, owner of KCJJ-AM 1630, a 10,000-watt independent station in...
Tribune reduces 2 papers’ figures
Tribune Co. further reduced circulation figures at two of its newspapers Friday and said it expects to increase compensation payments to advertisers by as much as $60 million. The Chicago-based...
Campaign Dispatches
A VERY DRY RUN President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush stopped for worship Thursday en route to an orientation walk-through of the convention floor. Bush's mother and father joined...