Faces of Davos: Day 1
Date: 28 January 2009
By DEALBOOK
Photo at left by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP. Photos at center and right by Monika Flueckiger/swiss-image.ch Despite a rash of last-minute no-shows, power brokers were on full display Wednesday as the World Economic Forum began on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland. Pictured above, at left: Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation and a co-chairman of this year’s conference, […]
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Gauging the Pain Around the World
Date: 28 January 2009
By DEALBOOK
The title was Update 2009: North America, but it might as well have been called, A Tour of the World: Who’s Got It Worse? From Pakistan to Afghanistan to Israel, Iran and yes, North America, moderator Josef Joffe of Germany’s Die Zeit led the audience and panelists through a gantlet of which threat was most […]
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Davos in the Media: Pessimism and Private Parties
Date: 28 January 2009
By DEALBOOK
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, seems to be taking place amid the ominous sound of a bell tolling. A survey released during the confab of politicians, regulators and business leaders found that just one in five of 1,124 chief executives from 50 nations said they were very confident about prospects for revenue growth […]
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Video: Soros on How to Handle ‘Bad Banks’
Date: 28 January 2009
By DEALBOOK
George Soros offered a generally dire outlook on the economy in a CNBC interview in Davos, but he also gave a prescription for what is ailing banks around the globe.
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Washington Post to End Book World as Stand-Alone Section
Date: 28 January 2009
By MOTOKO RICH
The Washington Post has decided to shutter the print version of Book World, its Sunday stand-alone book review section, and shift reviews to space inside two other sections of the paper.
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‘Yahoo Buzz’ Leaps From Internet to Television
Date: 28 January 2009
By BRIAN STELTER
Yahoo, the Internet portal, is developing a syndicated half-hour newsmagazine called “Yahoo Buzz,” inspired by the Web site of the same name.
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