yesterday evening
RIMM Trading Down on Earnings
With RIMM trading down nearly 9% in the pre-market after reporting earnings yesterday evening, below we highlight historical quarterly reports for RIMM since late 2001. We have sorted the list by the amount that the stock has gapped at ...
Icahn Plans Challenge To Yahoo Leadership (Washington Post)
Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has amassed a significant stake in Yahoo, one of the world's largest Web companies, and is planning to nominate a dissident slate of directors to the company, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday evening.
Chicago Police Shoot Man Who Reportedly Took 3 Hostage - FOX News
CHICAGO — Chicago police say officers shot and killed a man on the city's southeast side after he reportedly took three people hostage in a robbery attempt at an auto shop. Officers were called to the parts store yesterday evening, and say that ...
And things move merrily along...
Had some much needed quiet time yesterday evening and this morning. Read Terry Pratchett (Fifth Elephant, which I haven't read in over a year and a half and which is at least twenty times funnier after being in England). While the forebrain was occupied with that, I let the back mull over some probl ...
New Charter School
Yesterday evening, I was thrilled to see this article in the New York Times. It appears that a new charter school is being set up in New York City, and it will employ the following education reforms: * Teachers will be paid an annual salary of $125,000. The principal, by contrast will be paid only $ ...