From a fast-growing burrito roller coming undone to an educational electronics toy maker topping a holiday sales list, here's a rundown of this week's star performers and biggest losers in the business world.
Let's go over some of the items that will help shape the week ahead on Wall Street: The iPad 3 is coming; there's serious news for Sirius; less hope for Pandora; earnings from the tax gurus of H&R Block; and clues about how China's economy is really doing.
Don't be surprised if Netflix subscribers are on cinematic binges right now. Many of the most popular movies available via its streaming service will be going away on Thursday when its deal with Starz expires and roughly 1,000 movies go offline.
Netflix impressed skeptical investors with better-than-expected results on Wednesday night. If you want to know why the stock rallied on the news but you don't want to get your hands dirty by scouring the report, here are your answers.
Some industry pundits wrote off the TV shopping format as passe when online shopping started to take off, but a funny thing happened on the way to the era of digital retail: QVC ended up being among the biggest winners in the shift. We talk to CEO Mike George about the future of shopping.
Liberty Media, the conglomerate controlled by John Malone, made a $1 billion bid Thursday to buy Barnes & Noble. The bricks-and-mortar bookstore business is declining everywhere, so for Malone's gamble is to pay off, the Nook will have to gain some ground against Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle.
The IAC/InteractiveCorp chief is turning over the corner office to Greg Blatt, the 42-year-old CEO of IAC's Match.com and taking the position of chairman. Also, the Internet company announced it has bought out its major stockholder, John Malone's Liberty Media.
Liberty Media wants to provide investors with a clearer picture of its interactive businesses, so it's planning to spin off its Liberty Starz group and Liberty Capital group into a separate public public company called Newco.
Howard Stern may be headed back to terrestrial radio before long -- but not if Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin has his way. The shock jock's deal with Sirius pays him around $100 million a year, which the company may not be able to sustain.
After approving the merger of concert-promotion behemoth Live Nation and ticketing/artist-management titan Ticketmaster, the Justice Department ordered the partnership to divest a few assets. But will the conditions placate critics?
