#8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PODCASTS $400: "Your Money Briefing" & "Tech News Briefing" are podcasts offered through this newspaper that gives you the business the Wall Street Journal |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $200: In June 2017 this online retailer agreed to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion Amazon |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $400: For the first time ever, in 2011 the credit rating for the U.S. was downgraded from AAA to AA+ by this financial info. co. Standard and Poor's |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $600: In the longest strike there in half a century, 48,000 UAW workers walked off in 2019 at this company General Motors |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $800: In 2012 this iconic 244-year-old reference company announced that its 2010 32-volume edition would be its last in print Encyclopaedia Britannica |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $1000: CEO John Stumpf said bye in 2016 after a fake accounts scam was uncovered at this bank Wells Fargo |
#7999, aired 2019-05-23 | NEWS SPEAK $400: It's the 4-letter word for a news reporter's area of specialization, like sports or business beat |
#7961, aired 2019-04-01 | TV FUNNY BUSINESS $800: After leaving his Comedy Central show in 2005, he made news by hosting "SNL" in 2016 Dave Chappelle |
#7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $1000: Get your fill of business in the afternoon:
"Power ____" Power Lunch |
#7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $600: I'm still mad as hell that this 1976 movie about the TV news business didn't win a Best Picture Oscar Network |
#7728, aired 2018-03-28 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $600: Though Eli Whitney secured a patent for this invention in 1794, the ease of its piracy put the man out of business the cotton gin |
#7526, aired 2017-05-08 | NEWSPAPERS $400: It grew out of a newsletter first published in 1883 that covered the day's business & financial news The Wall Street Journal |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1889 until early in the Great Depression, this newspaper rarely reported beyond business & economic news The Wall Street Journal |
#7350, aired 2016-07-22 | SOUNDS LIKE A PIECE OF FURNITURE $400: An office or department for transacting a certain business, it may follow News, Travel, & Weather Bureau |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | FONTS $400: Business News Daily named Calibri one of the best fonts for this document--now go update yours a résumé |
#6964, aired 2014-12-18 | U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT BEST OF 2014 $800: Let's get down to business--for undergrads, this City of Brotherly Love university was tops the University of Pennsylvania |
#6908, aired 2014-10-01 | THE TV BUSINESS $600: Often 30 minutes in length, it's an advertisement recorded to look like a news program or talk show an infomercial |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS $800: Jeff Bezos recently made the news when he purchased this newspaper for $250 million the Washington Post |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1200: (I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) In 2000 I broke the news of the acquisition of J.P. Morgan by this banking company Chase |
#6683, aired 2013-10-09 | BUSINESS $1600: In 2013 this news network acquired Current TV & took its spot on U.S. cable; salaam aleikum Al Jazeera |
#6438, aired 2012-09-19 | "&" MAGAZINES $400: Harvard & Stanford tied for first in this magazine's ranking of Best Business Schools for 2013 U.S. News & World Report |
#6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE NEWS $400: Brazilian private equity firm 3G made a whopper of a deal when it paid over $3 billion to acquire this restaurant chain Burger King |
#6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE NEWS $800: In 2011 Fitch Agency downgraded this European country's credit rating to CCC, one grade above default Greece |
#6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE NEWS $1200: We're not being redundant when we say that United united with this airline in 2010 Continental |
#6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE NEWS $1600: Amid the phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch withdrew his bid for this biggest British broadcaster BSkyB |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | THAT'S MY BUSINESS! $2000: I deliver this "All the News That's Fit to Print" newspaper on my Greenwich Village route The New York Times |
#5744, aired 2009-07-23 | BUSINESS AS USUAL $1200: So as not to be gobbled up by Microsoft, Yahoo! offered a 20% stake to this company for Myspace News Corp. |
#5406, aired 2008-02-25 | THEY MEAN BUSINESS! $2000: This company owns HarperCollins Publishers as well as 20th Century Fox News Corp(oration) |
#4662, aired 2004-12-07 | AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS $1000: In 2004 this corp. whose holdings include 20th Century Fox, announced plans to reincorporate in the U.S. News Corp. |
#4216, aired 2002-12-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: This Australian-born moguls's first U.S. newspaper acquisition was the San Antonio Express & News Rupert Murdoch |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPER $800: The Cape Business News & The Natal Witness South Africa |
#4106, aired 2002-06-10 | BUSINESS $200: This company introduced its Trac II twin-blade razor in 1971 & the Good News disposable razor 5 years later Gillette |
#3356, aired 1999-03-22 | AROUND THE USA $500: Founded in 1850, The Deseret News is the oldest continuously operating business in this U.S. state Utah |
#3215, aired 1998-07-17 | CNN $400: Every half hour since 1982, this CNN network has updated America on news, sports, business & entertainment CNN Headline News |
#3197, aired 1998-06-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This London news agency was founded in 1851 & named for a German baron Reuters |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | 1997 BUSINESS NEWS $200: In Jan. some said this computer chip maker would become the world's most profitable company by 1999 Intel |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | 1997 BUSINESS NEWS $400: In July this retailer said it was closing 400 stores; it had nickeled-&-dimed itself to death Woolworth's |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | 1997 BUSINESS NEWS $600: New on the magazine stand in 1997 was this women's fitness magazine that might be abbreviated O2 Oxygen |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | 1997 BUSINESS NEWS $800: The FTC blocked Staples' purchase of this company in March -- antitrust & all that Office Depot |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | 1997 BUSINESS NEWS $4,500 (Daily Double): This automaker, whose logo is seen here, turned 50 in 1997 but has only made about 70,000 cars: (black stallion) Ferrari |
#3111, aired 1998-02-23 | BUSINESS NEWS $100: Be the first to find one of these in a Netscape program & they may give you $1,000 Bug |
#3111, aired 1998-02-23 | BUSINESS NEWS $200: Doing a bit of "Moonlighting", he's lent his likeness to the Sony PlayStation game "Apocalypse" Bruce Willis |
#3111, aired 1998-02-23 | BUSINESS NEWS $300: This Memphis company suspended service guarantees when UPS went on strike in 1997 Federal Express |
#3111, aired 1998-02-23 | BUSINESS NEWS $400: 1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado opened a Subway sandwich shop in her hometown in this South American country Venezuela |
#3111, aired 1998-02-23 | BUSINESS NEWS $500 (Daily Double): On June 19, 1997 it surpassed "A Chorus Line" as Broadway's longest-running show Cats |
#2927, aired 1997-04-29 | NEWS MEDIA $800: This newspaper for business people has the highest paid circulation of any daily in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal |
#2845, aired 1997-01-03 | 1990s BUSINESS $300: In 1995 NBC & this giant software company announced plans for an all-news television channel Microsoft |
#2144, aired 1993-12-23 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS $1000: This London-based news service is the world's leading distributor of computerized information Reuters |
#1950, aired 1993-02-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: In 1988 the News Corporation LTD., controlled by this Australian, bought TV Guide (Rupert) Murdoch |
#1620, aired 1991-09-20 | MAGAZINES $400: U.S. News & World Report & Nation's Business are published in this city Washington |
#1541, aired 1991-04-22 | ABBREVIATIONS $200: In the news business, the 2 agencies that are abbreviated AP & UPI Associated Press & United Press International |
#1435, aired 1990-11-23 | BESTSELLERS $600: His fictional account of the news business is told in "The Evening News" Arthur Haley |
#1074, aired 1989-04-13 | IN THE NEWS $1000: New federal regulations require banks to clear out-of-state checks within this many business days 7 |
#987, aired 1988-12-13 | IN THE NEWS $500: Don Soffer's yacht, in the news again in '88 when seized under the Coast Guard's zero tolerance policy Monkey Business |
#969, aired 1988-11-17 | IN THE NEWS $100: Business is no longer "hopping" in these clubs, now that the last one in the U.S., in Lansing, Michigan, has closed Playboy Clubs |
#861, aired 1988-05-09 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: U.S. News & World Report calls it the world's largest & most secretive airline Aeroflot |
#672, aired 1987-07-07 | BUSINESS NEWS $200: Even though "nobody doesn't like" popsicles either, this company sold the division that makes them Sara Lee |
#672, aired 1987-07-07 | BUSINESS NEWS $400: A new ad for a California hospital goes "Kidney stones? Who ya gotta call?..." These, of course Stonebusters |
#672, aired 1987-07-07 | BUSINESS NEWS $600: If you need bucks while basking on a beach in Brazil, just look for 1 of these new "banco movels" mobile banks |
#640, aired 1987-05-22 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: It may not be news to you, but this newsman emeritus is on the CBS board of directors Walter Cronkite |
#570, aired 1987-02-13 | SHOW BIZ BUSINESS $800: She left NBC News in June 1986 over a salary dispute. And so it goes. Linda Ellerbee |
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