Yankees, Man City to co-own NYC MLS team
Yankees, Man City to co-own NYC MLS team NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees are going into the soccer business. The Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer‘s 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season. Manchester [...]
May 21, 2013
Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly CANNES, France (AP) — A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: “Let me run the numbers.” The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of deal-making in luxury hotels along the Croisette promenade and aboard yachts moored offshore. Films are pitched with various [...]
May 21, 2013
Senate panel peels back Apple’s offshore taxes
Senate panel peels back Apple’s offshore taxes By Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc‘s chief executive officer defended the company’s tax record at a Tuesday Senate hearing where lawmakers said the maker of iPads, iPods and Mac computers kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to avoid U.S. taxes. The hearing marked [...]
May 21, 2013
Keane missed games England and Georgia
Robbie Keane and Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni. Photo: Donall Farmer / Inpho topics:
May 21, 2013
Immigration reform bill largely untouched going into fifth day of debate
Immigration reform bill largely untouched going into fifth day of debate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks on May 9. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) A bipartisan group of senators begins a fifth full day of debating changes to the immigration reform bill Tuesday. So far, the so-called mark-up process has left the sweeping overhaul of the nation’s [...]
May 21, 2013
APNewsBreak: Yanks, Man City to own NYC MLS team
APNewsBreak: Yanks, Man City to own NYC MLS team NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees are going into the soccer business. The Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer‘s 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season. [...]
May 21, 2013