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Dark Side of the Download: Pink Floyd Sues EMI Over Online Sales

in Media on March 9, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

It’s standard operating practice for the music industry: Musicians sue labels, claiming they got screwed out of royalties. But from a writer’s perspective, it’s always nice when the plaintiff is a well-known act whose catalog includes a hit called “Money.”

Yahoo Earnings: What to Expect When You're Not Expecting (Much)

in News on October 21, 2008 at 6:55 am PT

Here’s a bright spot in Yahoo’s third-quarter earnings announcement later today: Sources told BoomTown that the company will not announce a specific number of layoffs tomorrow, although it will give an overall percentage of employees and costs to be cut. In other words, you get to practice your long division and multiplication skills! Fun! Other than that, of course, when Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang gets on the horn at at 2 p.m. Pacific time, the outlook is likely to be a wall-to-wall glumfest.