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From Darth Vader coffee mugs to holiday sweaters with Chewbacca in a Santa hat, “Star Wars” has unleashed a galaxy of goods. Cash registers will ring again when “The Force Awakens” hits theaters on Dec. 18. The film could generate more than $9 billion in revenue for Disney and its partners, from cinemas to TV…
“What do you do when you have the attention of millions of people? It seemed to me like it would be fun to experiment with.” Photo: Louis Lanzano/Bloomberg via Getty Images Martin Shkreli has had a busy month. First, the “pharma bro” said he wished he raised the prices of the…
Whether you’ve seen their beautifully wrapped bars for sale at Shake Shack or Rag & Bone, featured in the pages of the New York Times or Vogue, or decorating one of their New York, London, or soon, LA shops, Mast Brothers chocolate bars have become the world’s most prominent brand of artisanal chocolate. But while…
Outsize pay for chief executive officers has been a bone of contention among shareholder activists for years. What’s less known is that the directors on board-compensation committees — the very people who decide to give out those large CEO salaries, bonuses, and stock grants — also tend to pay themselves and other directors extremely well….
So you want to live in New York City. The stereotypical “affluent young college graduate from Ohio coming to make his way in the big city”—that easily mocked demographic that can be ignored and dismissed out of hand as spoiled, or part of the problem—is only a small sliver of New York City residents. Most…
Well this is both embarrassing and deeply telling. In what appears to have been a gesture of goodwill gone haywire, McDonald’s recently teamed up with Visa to create a financial planning site for its low-pay workforce. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the thing seems to have been literally incapable of imagining of how a fast food employee…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** START Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges 32-year-old suspected of plundering Retrophin to pay debts By Christie Smythe and Keri Geiger | December 17, 2015 Photographs by Peter Bohler Video by David Nicholson From END BODY COPY CENTERED START Photographer: Francesco Nazardo END A…
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Media, speaks during an interview in October 2015. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Bloomberg / Getty Images cache hit 281:single/related:badc38340fa71907b825e2f63cd2a7aa empty Internet radio services like Pandora will have to pay more to artists and their representative groups, according to a decision released today by the Copyright Royalty (CRB). The basic per-song rates paid by Pandora will…
For nearly a week, the media and political worlds have been wondering who paid $140 million to purchase Nevada’s largest daily newspaper, The Las Vegas Review-Journal. The primary buyer had taken great pains to remain anonymous, but Fortune has learned from multiple sources familiar with the situation that it is Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO…
Rosalind Brewer in 2010 Bryan Bedder/Getty Images /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer is in hot water with white men after a CNN interview in which she championed diversity and talked about an experience meeting with a supplier who had no representation of women or people of color. “It has to start with…