He's been a big-time investor in the retail sector for more than 15 years and was chairman of Kmart after it emerged from bankruptcy about a decade ago. A few years later, he paired it with once-dominant Sears.Yet even as Eddie Lampert is poised next month to add the role of chief executive to that of chairman at retail giant Sears Holdings, he's...
Jan
07
181,354 People on Twitter Think They’re Experts at Twitter
Label: TechnologyDo you tweet a lot? Do you post everything on Facebook? Do you #hashtag #complete #sentences #like #this? Do you describe yourself, variously, as a social media “maven”, “master”, “guru”, “freak”, “warrior”, “evangelist” or “veteran”? (Yes, a social media veteran. As if Tumblr were a deadly war you narrowly survived.) Well: you’ve got company! There are more than 181,000 such individuals...
Starz signs first-look deal with former legendary TV head Jeremy Elice
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Jeremy Elice, the former head of Legendary Pictures‘ television division, has landed at Starz with a new deal, a spokesman for the cable network told TheWrap on Monday.Under the two-year agreement, Starz will have first-look rights at projects from Elice‘s new company, Elice Island Entertainment.In addition to his stint at Legendary, Elice was also a development executive...
Global Update: China Moves to Prevent Spread of Yellow Fever From Africa
Label: HealthIn a move that underlines how many Chinese citizens now work in Africa, China’s quarantine officials recently urged greater efforts to make sure that a yellow fever epidemic now raging in Sudan does not come back to China. Local health authorities were asked to scan all travelers arriving from Sudan for fevers. Chinese citizens planning travel to Sudan were advised to get yellow fever shots....
Sears CEO D'Ambrosio to step down
Label: Business Sears Holdings Corp. said Monday night that Chief Executive Officer Louis D'Ambrosio will step down Feb. 2, due to family health...
Jan
06
Police: Good Samaritans foil North Side robbery
Label: World Jose Rodriguez, 30. (Chicago Police Department / January 6, 2013) ...
“Ubuntu for Phones” Turns Smartphones into Desktop PCs
Label: TechnologyMillions of people have tried out Ubuntu, a free operating system for desktop and notebook PCs. Like Android, Ubuntu is open-source and based on Linux, and while it’s mostly seen as an OS for hobbyists here in the U.S., hardware manufacturers like Dell and HP make Ubuntu PCs for markets like mainland China.Now Canonical, the startup which drives Ubuntu’s partly community-based development, has announced...
James Earl Jones to star in “Driving Miss Daisy”
Label: LifestyleSYDNEY (AP) — They’re starring in a play about a woman reluctant to age and the perils of passing time, but veteran actors James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury say that life in their 80s continues to be exciting thanks to their determination to keep doing what they love.Jones and Lansbury, in Australia to star in a touring production of Alfred Uhry‘s Pulitzer-Prize winning play “Driving Miss Daisy,”...
Alarm in Albuquerque Over Plan to End Methadone for Inmates
Label: HealthMark Holm for The New York TimesOfficials at New Mexico’s largest jail want to end its methadone program. Addicts like Penny Strayer hope otherwise. ALBUQUERQUE — It has been almost four decades since Betty Jo Lopez started using heroin. Her face gray and wizened well beyond her 59 years, Ms. Lopez would almost certainly still be addicted, if not for the fact that she is locked away in jail,...
Blackhawks fans, shops cheer end to NHL lockout
Label: Business As soon as he heard the Chicago Blackhawks may soon be lacing up to play, Jim Boffa took his family out for a celebratory lunch...
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