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NYC woman bites back at actor's poodle
“Spin City” actor Alexander Chaplin is being sued by an upper East Side neighbor who says his rambunctious black poodle Fred attacked her in New York's Central Park.
nydailynews.com (3 hours ago)
Third Point raises Sony stake, presses for entertainment spin-off
TOKYO (Reuters) - New York-based hedge fund company Third Point said it had raised its stake in Japan's Sony Corp and asked for an opportunity to present its proposal to Sony's board for a partial spin-off of the company's entertainment unit.
reuters.com (5 hours ago)
Third Point Lifts Sony Stake, Urges Spin Off
Third Point on Tuesday said it has raised its stake in Sony and urged a spin-off its entertainment business.
cnbc.com (5 hours ago)
Third Point raises Sony stake, presses entertainment spin-off
TOKYO (Reuters) - New York-based hedge fund company Third Point said on Tuesday that it had raised its stake in Sony Corp and asked for an opportunity to present its proposal for a partial spin-off of the company's entertainment unit to Sony's board. In a letter to Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai, Third Point said...
yahoo.com (6 hours ago)
Third Point raises Sony stake, presses entertainment spin-off
TOKYO (Reuters) - New York-based hedge fund company Third Point said on Tuesday that it had raised its stake in Sony Corp and asked for an opportunity to present its proposal for a partial spin-off of the company's entertainment unit to Sony's board.
reuters.com (6 hours ago)
Spider-Man Will Spin Third And Fourth Sequels By 2018
Sony announces 'The Amazing Spider-Man 3' and '4.' By Todd Gilchrist Andrew Garfield on the set of "Amazing Spider-Man 2" Photo: Pacific Coast News
mtv.com (7 hours ago)
THE DISTILLERY: Lease licked
Jotters consider the market's reaction to Lend Lease's latest announcements, with one saying an attempt at positive spin backfired.
businessspectator.com.au (9 hours ago)
New cheaper and greener LED lights
A new form of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is in the works that will still be more energy-efficient and last longer than incandescent bulbs, but will be cheaper to make. The founders of LumiSands, a spin-off from University...
examiner.com (9 hours ago)
Watch Twin Peaks Raise Hell in Mischievous 'Fast Eddie' Video
Twin Peaks first caught SPIN's attention with "Stand in the Sand," a beachside shredder off the Chicago foursome's upcoming debut album, Sunken...
spin.com (10 hours ago)
From the Source’s Mouth: Still in Hiding, Snowden Does a Q&A Online
It makes sense that a leaker whose stated cause is transparency and openness would himself up to questioning. Today, in a 90-minute session on the Guardian website, NSA-surveillance leaker Edward Snowden did that, taking questions from readers about his data-mining revelations, why he did it, and how he felt about...
time.com (11 hours ago)
'Girl Meets World' Picked Up by Disney Channel
Girl Meets World the spin-off of the popular 1990s comedy series Boy Meets World has been picked up by the Disney Channel and will premiere in 2014 According to USA Today the new series will follow in the footsteps of its predecessor and production will begin this summer in LA Girl will...
rollingstone.com (11 hours ago)
Danny Brown Takes A$AP Rocky Into His 'Kush Coma,' Freestyles on the BBC
Back in March, Danny Brown leaked an early version of "Kush Coma," a weed tribute that was incongruously clearheaded and fast-paced. It was a great listen and now we've got another incentive to give it a spin: A$AP Rocky is on the final version, which will appear on Brown's August album for Fools Gold Records, Old...
spin.com (11 hours ago)
Magnetic Graphene Clouds Can Be Made To Appear And Disappear
Toggling graphene's magnetic field on and off could lead to faster, smaller electronics. Add another point to the list of reasons why graphene, the darling child of material physics, is a wunderkind. A team led by researchers at the University of Manchester has succeeded in turning magnetism on and off in graphene,...
popsci.com (11 hours ago)
A Midnight Rendezvous with Eric Epstein, Author of The 24-Hour Genius
Is staying up all night the secret to success and creativity? Eric Epstein, the author of The 24-Hour Genius: Unlocking Your Brain’s Potential with Strategic All-Nighters, sure thinks so. Is the author some wild partier, or a stoner? Hardly. Epstein, 35, is a quiet-spoken corporate lawyer, who practices with a firm...
time.com (12 hours ago)
Weyerhaeuser Cashing In On Housing: Puts Real Estate Unit For Sale, Buys 645K Acres Of Timberlands
It was a big day for Weyerhaeuser, the forest products company that on Monday announced a large acquisition, a change in management, and the possible spin-off or sale of its real estate and development business. Despite paying a steep price for the forest land, Weyerhaeuser got a good deal, which added to the day?s...
forbes.com (12 hours ago)
Tree caterpillars pitch sci-fi-like tents
TUCSON (AP) - An explosion of tent caterpillars, which spin slightly creepy-looking shelters on tree limbs, are leaving some Arizona mountain areas looking like science-fiction movies, scientists stud
trivalleycentral.com (14 hours ago)
Prison hotels: welcome to a night in the nick
British boutique hotels could be about to get a boost from an unexpected quarter. Yesterday, new plans were put forward for a series of "super prisons" holding as many as 3,000 inmates. Which will mean that some of the nation's most famous old slammers could get a new, and very different, lease of life. A thinktank...
guardian.co.uk (14 hours ago)
It’s a Go: Girl Meets World Actually Happening
Old-school TGIF sitcom fans can stop holding their breaths: months after the world learned that a spin-off of ’90s favorite Boy Meets World was a possibility, the word has come down: it’s actually happening. The Disney Channel’s executive VP of original programming, Adam Bonnett, made the announcement today,...
time.com (15 hours ago)
Boy Meets World becomes Girl Meets World: Cory and Topanga return for spin-off about their daughter
Children of the Nineties who witnessed Cory Matthews’ transition from earnest schoolboy to assured student and husband in Boy Meets World will be excited to hear that a sequel featuring the two central actors is in the pipeline.
independent.co.uk (16 hours ago)
Newham council told to accept betting shop it rejected
A council has lost a battle to stop the opening of a new betting shop in the borough. The multinational bookmaker Paddy Power won its appeal against a refusal by Newham council, in east London, to allow it to open a betting shop in the area, one of the country's most deprived. Newham has more than 80 betting shops...
guardian.co.uk (16 hours ago)
The Wolf of Wall Street: watch the first trailer
Thumping Kanye West beats introduce Martin Scorsese's take on the Cosa Nostra of our time: the hard-partying, money-hoovering, morality-eschewing corporate trader. With a Goodfellas-ish voiceover, Leonardo DiCaprio sets the scene of for a quick spin through a lifestyle of comprehensive illegality – "we were making...
guardian.co.uk (18 hours ago)
Weyerhaeuser Shifts Housing Focus in $2.45B Cascades Timber Deal
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. timber giant Weyerhaeuser is snapping up more than 645,000 acres of land from Canada's Brookfield Asset Management in a $2.45 billion stock deal that will bolster the company's timber holdings by about a third in the Pacific Northwest In a flurry of financial moves, Weyerhaeuser also...
thestreet.com (19 hours ago)
Royal Ascot: If Hannon can work a bit of magic, Toronado will leave his rivals in a spin
The surprise announcement last week that Dawn Approach will be given the chance to redeem his reputation so soon after his spectacular Derby flop has added a dramatic twist to the St James’s Palace Stakes, the feature race on day one of Royal Ascot tomorrow.
standard.co.uk (21 hours ago)
Bondy: Phil gets lefty out again as he continues to be U.S. Open's heartbreak kid
Sports events can ruin everything. They will spin gold into hay every time if we let them. In a better world, the Cubs win the pennant, Mark Sanchez wins MVP of the Super Bowl and Michael Jordan never grows old.
nydailynews.com (1 day ago)
Training: Don't fear free weights
Where do you work out in your gym? Is it the aerobics area, where you run or spin, perhaps while watching TV or reading a book? Or do you use machines, sitting down to exercise?
thonline.com (1 day ago)
Ashes: Fawad Ahmed wicketless in opening Australia A stint
Australia leg-spin hope and possible Ashes call-up Fawad Ahmed went wicketless in his first bowling stint for Australia A.
abc.net.au (1 day ago)
Bondy: Phil gets lefty out again at U.S. Open
Sports events can ruin everything. They will spin gold into hay every time if we let them. In a better world, the Cubs win the pennant, Mark Sanchez wins MVP of the Super Bowl and Michael Jordan never grows old.
nydailynews.com (1 day ago)
Citi Bike rentals not just spin
New York City isn’t going to hell in a bike basket after all.
nydailynews.com (1 day ago)
For McIlroy, a frustrating finish
Rory McIlroy flipped his club in the air and watched it spin end-over-end after his chip shot fell well short of Merion's third hole. The ensuing putt was short, too, and he slapped the thigh of his charcoal slacks.
miamiherald.com (1 day ago)
McIlroy closes rough week with 76
Rory McIlroy flipped his club in the air and watched it spin end-over-end after his chip shot fell well short of Merion's third hole. The ensuing putt was short, too, and he slapped the thigh of his charcoal slacks.
philly.com (1 day ago)
