Stories tagged with CBS
ABC, NBC and CBS join forces for Stand up to Cancer
By Emily Morgan | June 1, 2008 at 2:43pm | 0
The entertainment industry is banding together to combat cancer. The Stand up to Cancer campaign launched this week, with a celebrity filled event at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills.
CBS will pay $1.8 billion for CNET Networks
By Laurie Bennett | May 15, 2008 at 9:50am | 0
CBS announced today that is acquiring CNET Networks Inc., for $1.8 billion, at $11.50 per share.
Countrywide’s self-made men
By Gary Jacobson | July 27, 2007 at 9:19pm | 1
Angelo Mozilo, who made news this week with his startlingly candid assessment of the nation’s housing market, is a self-made man.
To pay tuition when he attended Catholic high school, he got a job with a mortgage company during the week and continued to work in his father’s Bronx butcher shop on the weekends, according to his biography with The Horatio Alger Association.
Family strife dogs the Redstones
By Muckety | July 21, 2007 at 8:20am | 0
Differences with her father, Sumner Redstone, have led Shari Redstone to consider selling her 20% stake in the family business, National Amusements.
Sumner Redstone posted a letter on Forbes.com Friday, saying he would weigh a fair offer from his daughter. Ms. Redstone issued a statement later in the day saying she would consider a sale, and noting that National Amusements had been “publicly valued at $8 billion.”
