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Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

It turns out that fewer magazines folded in 2009 than in the two years prior. While USA Today is way down right now, the Wall Street Journal has crept up to take its place.

Gunmaker Gaston Glock: Shell Companies, Nazis, and Murder

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business


Josh Sugarmann

Handgun manufacturer Glock finds itself and its one-time employees mired in a web of alleged criminal activity that includes money skimming, illegal campaign contributions, and even murder.

The "Precision" of B-School Rankings Can Claim Victims

Pablo Triana | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business


Pablo Triana

Why do the outrageously flawed rankings go on living?

This Week in Magazines: If Your Yoga Class Mandates Bowing 3,000 Times During the Night, Consider Tennis or Golf

James Warren | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media


James Warren

If you're into yoga, you might want to skip "Body, Brain and Wallet" in the Aug. 3 Forbes.

Is BusinessWeek Worth $1?

Alan M. Webber | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media


Alan M. Webber

BW needs to create a franchise. Because it's not print that's dead, or even print about business that's dead. It's old and tired franchises that are dead, franchises that have run out of gas, purpose and energy.

I'd Like Them to 'Just Do It' in Public

Candy Spelling | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green


Candy Spelling

Come on, Nike. Just do it, and say it, too. Your superstar endorsers are good with green. You should be, too.

BusinessWeek To Create Paid Online Edition

MediaWeek | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media


In the latest online paid content experiment by a publisher, BusinessWeek will create a special presentation of its print magazine content that will o...

This Week in Magazines: The "Capitalist Tool" Says Angelina Tops Oprah

James Warren | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media


James Warren

It's been a tough week for Oprah. First a terrific Newsweek cover underscored her penchant to legitimize wacky medical claims on her show. Now June 22 Forbes dethrones her as the "most powerful celebrity."

This Week in Magazines: Bill Clinton Has Really Changed, Right?

James Warren | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media


James Warren

A terrific reporter obviously labored hard to get beneath the well-practiced, media-shy and often disingenuous Clinton surface.

This Week in Magazines: Where Have All the Christians Gone? How Corporate America's Self-Interest May Trump Concern with Drugs and Guns in Mexico, Katha Pollitt Critiques the Michelle Obama Critiques

James Warren | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media


James Warren

Katha Pollitt has had about enough of the amateur psychoanalyzing of Michelle Obama, as well as those who seem somehow threatened, even by her bare arms.

The Worst Places in the World to Work

Sean Jacobs | Posted 04.19.2009 | World


Sean Jacobs

If you don't count Baghdad, Pyongyang (North Korea) or Harare (Zimbabwe) -- cities affected by war or economic sanctions -- which cities are the most ...

This Week in Magazines: Online Dating, Erupting Volcanoes and Dick Cheney

James Warren | Posted 02.11.2009 | Media


James Warren

Folks, Smart Money's got real news you can use, namely, "Ten Things Your Online Dating Service Won't Tell You."

Beyond Science Fiction

Buck Goldstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business


Buck Goldstein

Dr. Joe DeSimone has just won a big invention award for nano-particles that are 100x smaller than a red blood cell and as smart as a microprocessor.

The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

Business Week | Jenna McGregor | Posted 04.27.2008 | Business


Suddenly, innovation has a bull's-eye on its back. As the recession debate shifts from "what if" to "how long," slashing research and development budg...

How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...

Hewlett-Packard Settles Spying Case With NYT, Business Week

New York Times | MATT RICHTEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Hewlett-Packard has agreed to a financial settlement with The New York Times and three Business Week magazine journalists in connection with the compa...

BusinessWeek Makes Cuts As Print, Online Editions Attempt To Integrate

Women's Wear Daily | Stephanie D. Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


BusinessWeek on Wednesday unveiled a reshuffling of its editorial team and layoffs of a dozen staffers on the business and editorial sides, cuts staff...