WHEN Sporting News first hit the presses in 1886, there was no World Series, no National Football League, and no Cracker Jack, much less the Internet, mobile score updates or jeering sports bloggers. In its heyday — the 1950s and ’60s — it was the authoritative paper for serious sports fans, publishing comprehensive box scores [...]

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs delivered the first major makeover of the iPhone, unveiling a faster, cheaper handset that may help him convince business users to switch over from the BlackBerry.
Apple sank 2.2 percent in Nasdaq trading after saying carriers won’t have to give the company a cut of the lucrative monthly service [...]

What is not immediately obvious as you stroll into the open-plan, 17th-floor offices of Tommy Hilfiger, brightly lit by windows that stare down New York’s Hudson River, is whether you are entering the home of a fashion house or a music label. Sure there are racks of pick’n’mix clothes rolled across the aisles and a [...]

Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]

The man who started life as Mario Lavandeira and now calls himself Perez Hilton runs one of the internets must-see sites, the eponymous www.perezhilton.com, which pulls in about 2.8 million visitors every month, according to a New York Times report.
That same news report (http://tinyurl.com/37385d) says Warner Brothers Records has also been taking notice of what [...]

But these media networks — some linking fewer than a dozen hand-picked Web sites — may have a tough time competing with the larger networks of thousands assembled by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL.Those companies have been expanding, too, spending at least $11 billion collectively to buy smaller ad [...]

Dupre’s page had portrayed her as a New Jersey native who left a broken home to pursue a music career in New York. Court papers allege that Spitzer paid thousands of dollars for her services with the Emperor’s Club VIP.”I have been alone,” she wrote. “I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. [...]

Every year, New York magazine releases its Best of New York, a massive double-issue that New Yorkers cart around with them, the pages crammed with everything from the superlative steak to the best-in-show birthday bar. By and large, the choices are spot on. But because New York is so crammed with quality restaurants and bars [...]