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The fact that Congress failed to act on student loan rates does not mean the world is ending. Nor does it mean you will now go bankrupt or have to sell all your worldly possessions in order to pay back the money you borrowed for college. In fact, if you already have a student loan, your...

CBS’s (NYSE: CBS) big-dollar miniseries, “Under the Dome” premiered Monday night to a massive audience proving that there’s money to be made for networks even during the summer months. The results were record-breaking. 13.14 million viewers tuned in making it the most popular new summer drama...

TVGuide.com may not be as informative as Variety or as entertaining as Entertainment Weekly, but when viewers want to know what's on television, TV Guide leads the pack. The site has experienced double-digit growth over the last six years. It is now visited by more than 16.5 million individuals...

Let’s start with the “what.” Aereo is a technology startup, backed by IAC/Interactive (NASDAQ: IACI) that streams over-the-air broadcast television signals to iOS devices, as well as browsers on Macs and PCs. It also works on the Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) TV device designed to bring Internet...

The good news is that U.S. television broadcast networks, namely The Walt Disney Co.'s (NYSE: DIS) ABC, CBS (NYSE: CBS), News Corp.’s (NASDAQ: NWSA) Fox, and Comcast’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC, can expect advertising rate hikes of about six percent this week during the start of the important “upfront...

New York residents might soon have to pay for their favorite CBS (NYSE: CBS) TV shows. According to Bloomberg, CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves said that the network will switch to cable if Aereo wins the right to re-transmit shows without permission. Moonves did not stop there. He also told...

First-quarter results from General Motors (NYSE: GM) will be one of the highlights on the earnings front this week. Analysts anticipate that the carmaker will say Thursday its revenue slipped about three percent from a year ago to $36.60 billion, but that earnings fell from $0.93 per share a year...

Everybody likes a comeback story. A person that faced adversity in the eye of the public and came out on top often receives instant approval from onlookers. Even Wall Street rewards companies for rising from the depths of certain doom. Probably the best example of that is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL...

This weekend in Barron's online: the annual list of the best chief executives in the world, and the prospects for Darden Restaurants, Sarepta Therapeutics and Seacor Holdings. Cover Story "World's Best CEOs" by Andrew Bary. Barron's ninth annual list of the 30 best chief executives in the...

Is NBC’s Brian Williams being replaced by @someguyontwitter? Voice of America reports that, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of U.S. adults first hear about a news story on a social networking site. For young people, the number is almost 25 percent. While...

The Carnival (NYSE: CCL) Triumph is in a Mobile, Alabama where it will undergo repairs. But for the company, the fallout from an incident that some describe as “a floating toilet” has to be contained quickly. When news first broke of the ship experiencing a fire in the engine room causing it to...

On Friday, an asteroid about half of the size of a football field will be as close as 17,000 miles from Earth, according to Space.com. Asteroid 2012 DA14 is barreling toward the Earth at about 50,000-60,000 miles per hour as it arrives at approximately 2:24 pm EST. Before you conjure up images...

Quarterly reports from General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. The consensus forecast for the former calls for fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) to be more than 23 percent higher than a year ago to $0.51 per share. The...

The focus this week naturally will be on the presidential election and the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. But on the earnings front, it is time for retailers to begin stepping into the spotlight. Here is a peak at what analysts expect to see from retailers for the period leading up to the holiday...

This weekend, Barron's online discussed the prospects for the oil and gas sector, the case for Activision, a look at Baltimore, profiles, interviews, book reviews and more. Cover Story "How to Play Energy Now" by Andrew Bary. The oil sector bull case has long been that demand from emerging...