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Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
Business Week is not more the property of McGraw Hill, the firm that has had its ownership for almost a century now. Today the acquisition of the magazine was completed as its ownership came in the hands of Bloomberg. The deal’s financial aspects remain undisclosed but reports put the deal to be valued at a cash vale of around $15 Million, which includes a payment of $5 Million and the...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Mayor Bloomberg ignored a letter from an elderly woman begging him to stop the Parks Department from planting two trees in front of her Bronx home, where she's lived for 45 years. 76-year-old Irene McKenzie says leaves from the new trees will be enormous burden, and they'll also aggravate her sensitive allergies when they bloom. But tree-hugging Mayor Bloomberg did nothing to halt the...
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The feud between Mayor Bloomberg and city Controller William Thompson over a downtown Brooklyn jail is headed to court.
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Taume News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
Bloomberg L.P., the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals, has completed the acquisition of BusinessWeek from The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
When Bloomberg LP , the new owner of BusinessWeek , trimmed the magazine's staff by 130 people two weeks ago , many well-known columnists were among those let go. But the idea that Bloomberg is looking to remove all of the big name writers from BusinessWeek 's pages can be dispelled by yesterday's announcement that television personality Charlie Rose will join the magazine as a columnist...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
A tipster inside BusinessWeek's newsroom sent us this photo of the magazine's altered office logo, freshly stamped with the imprint of new owner Bloomberg. Just so remaining staffers who survived the layoffs know who's in charge. Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Ex-BusinessWeek Boss Byrne: I'm Launching A New Company To Kill BusinessWeek Charlie Rose Steals Maria Bartiromo's...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
The 13-month, multinational search to find a new commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection came to a surprising close this week when Mayor Bloomberg selected a 36-year-old aide with limited environmental experience who works a few desks away from the Mayor in City Hall. Caswell Holloway, the current chief of staff to Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, has been chosen to lead the agency,...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
NEW YORK -- Bloomberg LP says it has completed its purchase of McGraw-Hill's BusinessWeek magazine.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/12/2009
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg L.P., the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals, has completed the acquisition of BusinessWeek from The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York City – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is suing his former rival Comptroller William Thompson Jr. over the Democrat’s refusal to enable the expansion of a Brooklyn jail. The mayor and the city Department of Design and Construction filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. Mr. Thompson has called the Brooklyn House of Detention [...]
