Filed under: International markets , Other issues , Rants and raves , Competitive strategy , Workspace , Media World , Headline news While Michael Jackson is referred to affectionately by fans as the “King of Pop” . He could have just as easily carried the title “The hardest working man in show business” except for the fact that elder statesmen of the music world, the late James Brown earned that title first

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Michael Jackson fireworks, the workaholic

Filed under: Television , Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , News Corp’B’ (NWS) , Media World Disney (NYSE: DIS ) programmed a new movie recently on one of its prime media assets. The film, entitled Princess Protection Program , debuted on the Disney Channel and stars a young actress named Selena Gomez. The casting choice was no accident.

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Disney Channel does it again with ‘Princess’ film, but it still has challenges

Filed under: Other issues , Money and Finance Today , Personal finance , Small business This is bizarre at best but its true. In Latvia there lives a man named Viktor Mirosiichenko who heads a company called Kontora Loan Company

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Would you pledge your soul as collateral for a loan?

Filed under: NIKE, Inc’B’ (NKE) So, we are approaching the final semifinal match to set the men’s Wimbledon finals.

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JockStocks: Fred Perry knows its boundaries, lets Nike make Murray’s footwear

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Filed under: Bad news , Market matters , Recession Unlike the stock market, the bond market thrives on “bad” news. Why is this?

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Bad news triggers a rally in the bond market

Filed under: Private equity , Financial Crisis Remember the heyday of the housing boom when investors would “flip” properties?

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No-flipping, increased-capital rules proposed for buying troubled banks

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL) , Market matters , General Mills (GIS) , Yum Brands (YUM) , Cramer on BloggingStocks , Recession From TheStreet.com Network Unemployment Rate Climbs to 9.5% Today’s Outrage: Companies Lack Courage TheStreet.com’s Jim Cramer says there’s good in this market — remember that.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Don’t paint everything with the jobs brush

Filed under: Consumer experience , Competitive strategy , Sprint Nextel Corp (S) When Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S ) released a $50/month “unlimited everything” plan with its Boost Mobile prepaid unit back at the start of the year, it never knew what firestorm it would eventually set off. Indeed, that move caused a huge spike in Q1 subscribers to Sprint, with a number north of 700,000 — and it caused the prepaid wireless competition to start offering low monthly costs for unlimited talktime plans (often with unlimited use of other features)

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Sprint Nextel, Leap Wireless stand to lose some business