Daniel Stafford

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

That's the question raised by Amazon's new Kindle Textbook Rental service, announced today. Amazon claims 80-percent savings when renting rather than buying. Would you go for it?

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Can You Live on Dividends Alone?

This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool?s Rule Your Retirement service. He also has a blog, Twittering thing, and other things that are supposed to be important but he often forgets about, such as hygiene. Robert contributes [...]

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Too Little, Too Late? News Corp Forms Group To Oversee Ethics

When News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) ran an ad in multiple newspapers across the UK this weekend, it promised “further concrete steps” to right the wrongs that have engulfed the company and its key executives in scandal. Today we got an example of one of these: the company has announced the “formal establishment and extension” of the Management and Standards Committee, independent of News International, which will cooperate with the current investigations and also provide standards for ethics and governance in the future.

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Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment; Police Chief Out

If you felt a small earthquake just now, it was the tectonic plates of press and power moving in the UK. Rebekah Brooks, who resigned just Friday as chief executive of News International, the UK publishing unit of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), was arrested today by Scotland Yard in a pre-arranged move. The possible charges, according to multiple reports: suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications & corruption allegations. The BBC reports plans for the arrest were made after her resignation and we have confirmed that the decision for Brooks to leave was made without News Corp knowing she was about to be arrested.

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