Articles

  • No MPGs for EVs


    Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 6:07pm

    Jeremy Anwyl, the CEO of Edmunds.com, a consumer auto site that also offers industry analysis, has suggested that the EPA revise how it measures fuel-efficiency for cars and trucks. With new electric vehicles coming to market, he argues that rather than develop complex formulas for translating EV MPGs into gas equivalents, the agency should “start over”:

    • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and Car Design News.

  • Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 4:04pm

    Google (GOOG) proceeded this past week with the second announcement of its Chrome OS. The first one took place on July 7, 2009, and with the ship date a year away, we can look forward to still more launch events: a beta launch event, a couple more for applications, and partnership agreements before the Big One, in time for the 2010 holidays shopping season.

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    • Jean-Louis Gassée is a former Apple executive and a regular contributor to the Monday Note blog, where this article originally appeared.

  • Geithner's Disgrace


    Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 3:57pm
    Photograph of Timothy Geithner by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

    from SlateA recent government report suggests that the government's rescue of American International Group (AIG) was less than perfect. Eliot Spitzer thinks that Timothy Geithner should be embarrassed:

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    Eliot Spitzer Says Timothy Geithner Should Be Ashamed.

    • Eliot Spitzer is the former governor of the state of New York.
    Photograph of Timothy Geithner by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

  • Big Turkey Goes Wild


    Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 2:05pm

    Slate has republished an interesting "Explainer" from last year detailing how producers of turkey deal with an unusual market: where nearly one-fifth of their product is sold to be consumed on just one day.

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    How Big Turkey messed up.

    • Dan Mitchell has written for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The MInneapolis Star-Tribune and Wired.

  • Reasons To Be Cheerful

    Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 1:34pm

    The holiday season, for many small businesses, is the best of times and the worst of times. Retailers enjoy what’s by far the biggest sales season of the year even as they scramble to keep up with the frenzy. Other types of businesses, including NewWest.Net, work to solidify contracts and financial plans for the year to come. Everyone steps up their business game a bit and weighs the perennial questions: A company holiday party? Year-end bonuses? Gifts and cards for clients? Office schedule?

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    Cheer Up. There's More To Be Grateful for This Thanksgiving.

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    • Jonathan Weber is the founder, publisher, and CEO of New West, a media company covering life and business in the Rocky Mountain West.

  • The Great Anti-Google Conspiracy


    Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 1:25pm

    Such is the state of the media industry that any hope of remuneration, no matter how remote, is greeted with giddy breathlessness.

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    The great anti-Google conspiracy.

    • Chris Thompson is a writer living in Brooklyn.

  • Why Do We Need GM to Pay Us Back?


    Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 12:10pm

    The New York Times has an op-ed today from Edward Niedermeyer, who edits The Truth About Cars, taking strenuous issue with the idea that General Motors will ever be able to pay back the taxpayers’ $50 billion-plus investment in the company. In other news, cats and dogs still don’t get along and day still gives way inevitably to night.

    • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and Car Design News.

  • Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 11:13am

    from SlateThese are grim times for American executives. The public is angry, and consumers are holding on to every nickel. It's hard to escape the sense that the economic future may be less comfortable than the past. But not all American managers are gloomy. "Optimism is higher than it was last year," says Brenda Lei Foster, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

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  • The Store That "Twilight" Saved


    Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 10:59am
    As the second installment of "Twilight" hits theaters, the vampire craze continues its run. The film has spawned tons of merchandise, and may have actually been the saving grace for one store. Double X has more:
    I had forgotten that Hot Topic existed.

  • Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 - 7:13am
    Josh Tyrangiel by Joseph Moran/Time Magazine.

    When a 37-year-old editor, no matter how preternaturally talented, gets a job running a major media outlet, it is a sign of a generational shift. The announcement last week that Josh Tyrangiel will be the new editor of BusinessWeek as the publication completes the transition in ownership from McGraw-Hill (MHP), the company that had operated it for 70 years, to Bloomberg, the financial-information juggernaut.

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    Mr. Outside takes over BusinessWeek.

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    • Marion Maneker is a regular contributor to The Big Money.
    Josh Tyrangiel by Joseph Moran/Time Magazine.