NEW YORK, April 30, 2007 — The Wall Street Journal continues to outperform industry trends, growing individually paid subscriptions 4.5%, and total subscriptions 0.6% since the launch of its redesign on Jan. 2, 2007.


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The Wall Street Journal continues to speculate that US rural mobile operator Alltel Corp could be snapped up by US telecoms and mobile goliath AT&T Inc.


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The Wall Street Journal has a brief piece — and an even briefer video accompaniment — covering Wiimote hacking of all things.


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T he Wall Street Journal won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper’s extensive reporting on the backdating of stock options by many corporate executives. The Pulitzer committee accurately stated that the Wall Street Journal’s investigation changed the business landscape forever.


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When we heard that Bank of America is installing — brace yourselves, gentlemen — waterless urinals in the “green” skyscraper it’s building near Bryant Park for its investment banking operation, we realized that Wall Street is starting to take energy and water conservation seriously.


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Rebecca Blumenstein stepped fresh onto the scene in Beijing in August 2005, new to the Asian way of life and unable to speak Mandarin Chinese. Raised in Hampton Township, she was - and still is - worlds apart from the life she once knew, but at the same time, in her element.


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An FDA panel of outside experts on Tuesday unanimously recommended that the agency approve Pfizer’s antiretroviral drug maraviroc, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pfizer has proposed using maraviroc to treat people with advanced HIV or AIDS who have not responded to other medications, according to the Journal (Corbett Dooren, Wall Street Journal, 4/25). [click link for full article]


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Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “appears to still be shopping for a place on the political spectrum” as his first series of domestic policy speeches approaches, but the “emerging picture shows a politician willing to use government to intervene in markets to further core Democratic goals, though careful to avoid hard-edged liberal rhetoric,” the Wall Street Journal reports. …


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NEW YORK, April 27, 2007 — This week’s Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition centerpiece will focus on how federal law says collectors and other creditors are prohibited from taking Social Security and Veteran’s benefits to pay debts, yet the practice is widespread.


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