Herb Kohl

Executives inside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca faced a high-stakes dilemma. On one hand, Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein was bringing the company a small fortune in sales and was conducting research that made one of its most promising...

Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), chairman of the powerful Senate antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights subcommittee, told the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission that he wants strong conditions on the proposed merger between cable...

After the coffee. Before trying to get Lee DeWyze's awful version of "Beautiful Day" out of my head. Is this the plot for "Wall Street 3"? An assistant to a top Disney executive and her boyfriend hatched up a crazy......

What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting by Randall Stross, New York Times, December 26, 2008 University of Leicester space scientist says texting is at least four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space, news release....

The e-mail from on high last week contained roughly 1,000 characters, but I can sum it up for you in a bite-sized blast of less than 160: Staff use of text messaging on company-issued cell phones is getting costly. Please......

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. has finally roped Yahoo Inc. into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted pursuit that dragged on for years and setting the stage for them to make a joint assault against the dominance of Google Inc. The 10-...

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. announced today they were joining forces in the realm of online search, one of the Internet's most lucrative industries, in a deal that would unite them against search giant Google Inc. Under the 10-year deal, websites from...

Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis) is not a fan of how NBC is offering Winter Olympics coverage online. In a letter to NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker, Kohl wrote that it "appears that NBC is restricting access to much of......

News flash: Comcast won't promise to tie its cable rate increases to inflation. In response to questions about its plans to acquire control of NBC Universal, Comcast told Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) that it would not make such a commitment.......

NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker just got back to Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), who complained a little over a month ago to the network over how it was offering the Olympics online. In his letter to NBC dated Feb.......

Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., seeking U.S. government approval for a merger to form the world's largest carrier, will face lawmaker scrutiny on whether the deal will benefit consumers, workers and communities. The day after the...

Internet pioneers Yahoo Inc. and AOL were closing in on a deal late Wednesday that would combine their businesses into an online advertising giant, according to four people familiar with the talks. If consummated, the deal could let Yahoo wriggle out...