News on Jonathan Miller

Motorists as driver of state revenue

2010-02-22T09:55:03Z

<div id="subtitle">If your vehicle is not registered or insured, you could be a target</div><div><p> CARSON CITY The states deficit has grown so dire that Gov. Jim Gibbons is seriously considering hiring a company to search Nevada roadways for uninsured motorists.</p><p...

Property vets to buy condos, convert to apartments

2010-02-23T12:20:21Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - For most Americans, the U.S. housing market collapsed about four years ago. For three real estate heavyweights, it's just getting started.</p><p>Boutique investment bank Westwood Capital, veteran apartment building owner and manager ...

Manhattan apartment sales spike in Q3, prices vary

2010-02-24T23:51:28Z

<div id="subtitle">Manhattan apartment market soar in third quarter, still below year-ago levels</div><div><p>Blink. What housing downturn?</p><p>Sales of apartments and co-op units in Manhattan soared between 46 and 69 percent from the second to the third quarter, according to a handful of reports Friday.</p><p>Though sales are still o...

Fringe Firsts EIF 1993

2009-08-28T20:06:12Z

Dr Jonathan Miller, chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, with the second week's winners of the Fringe First awards, August 1993. L-r....

Jonathan Miller new Fringe chairman 1984

2009-08-28T02:35:55Z

Dr Jonathan Miller took over from Andrew Cruikshank (left) as chairman of Edinburgh Festival Fringe in March 1984....

UK News - July 22, 2009

2009-08-14T06:55:55Z

May0015378 Bee Hives for DT Features...May0015378. Daily Telegraph. Fortum & Mason Bee Hives for DT Features. Picture to illustrate article about Bee hives on the roof of Fortnum & Mason in Picadilly, London. The Bees are Carnolean Bees from PASADENA, California (Reuters) - News Corp hopes to transform MySpace, which has been losing users to Facebook...

Manhattan apartment prices skid 13 to 19 percent

2010-02-26T14:22:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Reports show Manhattan apartment prices tumble by double digits in the 2nd quarter</div><div><p>Apartment prices in the typically resilient Manhattan market plunged in the second quarter by the largest annual amount in decades, data released Thursday showed.</p><p>The median price fell between 13 and 19 percent from a year ago, according to four...

The Hollywood Reporter Presents "Power Player" Award

2009-06-02T22:22:10Z

NEW YORK - JUNE 02: News Corp. chief digital officer Jonathan Miller (R) recieves The Hollywood Reporter "Power Player" award at The Waldorf Astoria on June ...

News Corp. creates new unit to share content

2010-03-03T04:09:06Z

<div><p>News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday announced the creation of a new unit to share content and resources across his vast media empire.</p><p>John Moody, executive vice president at the FOX News television channel, will he...

Historic drop for Manhattan housing market

2010-03-03T10:31:56Z

<div id="subtitle">1Q Manhattan housing sales plummet to historic levels; buyer-seller `disconnect'</div><div><p>The recession has hammered confidence in the Manhattan real estate market, with first quarter sales falling to their lowest number in decades, experts said.</p><p>Three reports released Thursday estimated a plunge in sales of Manhattan apartments betwee...

AP source: Ex-AOL boss to guide News Corp. digital

2010-03-03T11:51:02Z

<div id="subtitle">AP source: Former AOL chief Miller soon to take digital reins at News Corp.</div><div><p>Jonathan Miller, a former chief executive of AOL and once considered a potential CEO at Yahoo Inc., ...

Emergency Belief

2010-03-02T19:08:07Z

<div><p>Two thousand eight was a year that can’t be forgotten soon enough by the browbeaten souls unfortunate enough to make their living in the city’s real estate market, which proved to be a much choppier sea to navigate than most expected over the past 12 months. It mattered little if you were in the commercial game or the residential game, worked the sales market or rentals, the negative conditions shipwrecked all. </p><p>Just like the ...

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

2010-03-02T20:28:48Z

<div><p>The Real Deal pointed us to this gem of a Fox Business clip, wherein Neil Cavuto (greatest hair in show business), Dolly Lenz and Bernie Madoff came together for a few heavenly minutes. [Fox Business] </p><p>Old Jonathan Miller, author of the widely watched Douglas Elliman housing reports, runs down on his blog Matrix the stages of reaction for real estate pros facing softening markets: </p><p> Over hype the positive Spin, misdirection Denial Disbelief Passive acceptance Jump on the bandwagon Over hype the ne...

Yahoo up on reports of new takeover bid

2010-03-01T08:29:51Z

<div><p>Yahoo shares gained more than seven percent on Wall Street on Tuesday amid reports former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller was trying to raise money to purchase the Internet company.</p><p>Yahoo's stock gained 7.08 pe...

Yahoo shares climb on hopes for $30B takeover bid

2010-03-01T08:33:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Yahoo stock rallies on report former AOL chief hopes to make $30 billion takeover bid</div><div><p>Yahoo Inc.'s stock rallied Tuesday on a report that AOL's former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling Internet company for as much as $30 billion.</p>&...

Miller's antiques

2010-03-02T06:37:37Z

<div><p> The Mikado; Rigoletto English National Opera Salome Opera North, Nottingham</p><p> Having had no operatic performances at all in January, English National Opera is filling February with two hardy perennials, MANHATTAN In Manhattan, prices are falling. But several gauges indicate that, in the mon...

Brooklyn Third-Quarter Report Online

2010-02-28T00:18:53Z

<div><p>Jonathan Miller has posted the rather grim Douglas Elliman-Miller Samuel third-quarter housing report--sales down, prices down, condo sales really down. PDF here. </p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=35200142&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2008 <...