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  • Mayor Bloomberg again wealthiest New Yorker on Forbes billionaire list

    For the second year in a row, Michael Bloomberg holds title as New York’s richest man with a...  

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  • Are the Chinese trying to tell us something?

    While most people know that China is Uncle Sam's largest creditor -- and as such has us by the...  

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  • StuyTown tenant leaders to residents: Sign here

    The Tenants Association at beleaguered Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village is is handing out...  

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  • Madoff whistleblower needs anger management: Jon Stewart

    We’ve heard the angry rants of famed Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos too many times to count...  

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  • Facebook CEO named Cannes Media Person of the Year

    Madison Avenue is bestowing an honor on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that is usually reserved for...  

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Real Estate Blog

  • This week's calendar: March 11 to 17

    Thursday, March 11 Urban Land Institute Panel This panel will address the current status of...  

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  • The weekly wrap-up, March 5

    This week we learned that… … An inch of Detroit sounds like just about the amount we’d be into...  

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  • Air to ground

    Matthew Daimler, founder of popular travel site Seatguru.com , knows his way around an airplane....  

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  • Buses taking over 34th Street

      Big changes for the hellish, traffic-clotted thoroughfare known as 34th Street. Yesterday the...  

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  • This week's calendar, March 4 to 10

    Thursday, March 4 RED Nite: 9inety North 5th The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce's Real Estate &...  

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It's up, up and away

It's up, up and away

It was the year of the bull, as the stock market staged one of the most spectacular comebacks ever recorded. Just 12 months ago, America's blue chips had bottomed to as little as $1 a share. Nest-egg investors dreaded peeking at their...  Read Full Story

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Latest Business News

  • Internet hustlers go after Madoff victims

    Internet hustlers go after Madoff victims

    Talk about adding insult to injury. After being bilked out of $65 billion by Ponzi mastermind Bernard Madoff, his victims suffered a second indignity this week when a Nigerian Internet scam sought to steal their personal information with...  

  • Cable cos. eye fix to retran fees

    Cable cos. eye fix to retran fees

    A coalition of cable and satellite companies will go to the Federal Communications Commission to create a new process to resolve bitter disputes over carriage fees paid to broadcasters. The group, which is led by Time Warner Cable and includes...  

  • Serious search party

    Serious search party

    Freshly minted Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan is pressing to make the most significant hire of his short career: an ace chief financial officer to replace Joseph Price. It's a move that could help frame Moynihan's tenure as the boss of the...  

  • Pink Floyd dragging EMI boss to court

    Pink Floyd is suing EMI over online royalty payments and the ability to sell single tracks in a bid to make sure the record label doesn't, to borrow a...  

  • Giants squeezing SpongeTech in suit

    SpongeTech Delivery System's legal troubles are turning into a giant problem for the sponge peddler -- literally. The New York Giants have joined...  

  • Google, Facebook hit with suit

    Google and Facebook are facing a patent-infringement lawsuit from Wireless Ink, a New York firm that charges the companies are using technology it...  

  • Barclays eyes US bank

    British bank Barclays Plc is looking to buy a retail bank in the US to extend its presence after buying Lehman Brothers North American operations in...  

  • Web router 12x faster

    Cisco Systems yesterday introduced a new Internet network router it said will handle Web traffic 12 times faster than rival products. The router is...  

  • Business briefs

    Citi deal Apollo Management agreed to buy Citigroup's Citi Property Investors, a real estate investment unit with a portfolio val ued at $3.5...  

  • Portugal's Socrates rethinking debt load

    Portugal's Socrates rethinking debt load

    A man named Socrates is trying to keep Greece's debt-bubble tragedy from spreading into Portugal. Portugal's Socialist prime minister, Jose Socrates -- named after the Greek philosopher who espoused, "He is richest who is content with the least"...  

  • Continental CEO vows to cancel flights to avoid fines for delays

    DALLAS — Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying...  

  • Class-action lawsuit could cost Toyota $3 billion

    MIAMI — Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action...  

  • Google dish-in' tv ads

    Google dish-in' tv ads

    Google wants to bring its search expertise to the boob tube. The tech giant is reportedly testing a search service with Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite-TV provider, that would allow viewers to surf for TV shows as well as Web content on sites...  

  • Sex.com $ells

    Sex.com $ells

    The question of how much is someone willing to pay for sex during a recession is about to be answered. After coughing up a reported $14 million for the sexy Web site sex.com back in 2006 -- a record for a domain name -- Boston-based Escom has...  

  • Studio splices IPO

    Studio splices IPO

    The Film Department attempts to go public: take three. The struggling independent movie studio founded by Warner Bros. and Miramax veterans Mark Gill and Neil Sacker is slashing the amount of money it hopes to raise in an IPO by $25 million....  

  • Greenberg testifies to Cuomo about AIG

    Former American International Group boss Hank Greenberg hopes to toss out his last bag of rubble remaining from his five-year war with Eliot Spitzer....  

  • 'ABC' of TV battle: Time Warner Cable

    In the long run, Disney's feud with Cablevision over what the Long Island-based cable operator pays to carry ABC's signal may have less to do with...  

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