‘Matrix’ Producer Joel Silver Launches New Company With Canadian Entrepreneur Daryl Katz
Veteran producer Joel Silver is partnering with Canadian entrepreneur Daryl Katz to create Silver Pictures Entertainment. Silver Pictures will develop, produce and finance movies, as well as television More...
NHL Fight Between Sherry Bassin and Daryl Katz Uglier Than a Tussle in the Rink
Hockey is famous for its in-rink fights in which players might lose tempers, dignity and possibly a tooth or two. A court battle between Sherry Basin, owner of the Erie Otters and the Daryl Katz, who More...
Playoffs Possible for Wilpon’s NY Mets, But Fans Still Riddled with Angst
The New York Mets hope to be a contender this season for the first time since 2008, but the prevalent feeling among fans is one of negativity due to the ownership’s continuing payroll problems and the team’s More...
FXCM Bailout by Richard Handler and Leucadia Might Be Just a Band-Aid
The last minute bailout of FXCM with a $300 million loan from Leucadia may turn out to be only a bandaid as the stock of FXCM plummeted when details of the deal were announced, according to Bloomberg. The More...
For Oracle’s Ellison, Working with Kurian Is Not Like Hurdin’ Katz
With Oracle founder and former CEO Larry Ellison taking a passenger seat, yet an active role as chairman, at his own company, the line of succession might not be lead to its co-CEOs Safra Catz or Mark More...
Prof. David Katz: Study Linking Circumcision to Autism ‘Far from Convincing’
A recent study of more than 340, 000 boys born between 1994 and 2003 in Denmark has concluded that circumcision raises the chances of an autism spectrum disorder before the age of 10 by 46 per cent, but if More...
Streit’s Matzoh Factory, A Taste of Jewish Life in the Lower East Side, Moves to New Jersey
Streit’s Matzoh factory, one of the last vestiges of 20th century Jewish culture on the Lower East Side is packing up its factory and moving to a new location in New Jersey. It follows other great Jewish More...
Oracle Gets Off On Its Cloud
– In Oracle’s conference call, Larry Ellison and co-CEOs Mark Hurd and Safra Katz were crowing about how strong Oracle is and that the company is the cloud leader. Its stock shot up to an More...
Will Daryl Katz Lose Ownership of Edmonton Oilers?
Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz may have made some money since he acquired the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers in 2008 – it more than doubled in value – but the team itself has not fared so well having a losing More...
Reversal: BC Partners to Acquire PetSmart for $8.7 Billion
On Sunday we ran a Reuters story suggesting that Leon Black’s Apollo Global Management is nearing a buyout of PetSmart Inc for about $8 billion in what would be the largest leveraged deal for a U.S. company More...