Business Beast - Matt Lauer Finally Talks

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1 Media Matt Lauer Finally Talks The Today host tells Howard Kurtz that NBC mishandled Ann Curry's ouster and describes how the network is rebuilding the show. Plus, his secret talks with Katie Couric. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 Entitlements Should We Make Social Security More Generous? People haven't saved enough for retirement. Maybe the government should make it up to them. By Megan McArdle. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 Social Facebook Friends for Sale There's no mystery to how to make the social-networking site work for you. You don't need a lot of friends. You just need a lot of cash. Read it at The Daily Beast Whole Foods just made history by becoming the first U.S. retailer to require labeling of any foods containing genetically modified content." READ IT NOW › 5 Philanthropy The $100M Businesswoman Project Coca-Cola and International Finance Corp. are announcing a three-year initiative to get critical financial backing to businesswomen in Africa and Eurasia. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 C-Suite IBM's Big Data Bet CEO Virginia Rometty predicts the decline of management by gut instinct. Read it at The Daily Beast 25 Overlooked Colleges Hotels for Hipsters In response to Murdoch's Full-Court Press: I havre [sic] no issue with him creating markets or printing money. I just detest the unethical way he continues to go about it: In response to, Why Not Make Social Security More Generous? — RobertFontaine In response to Murdoch's Full-Court Press: Is there any reason why it wouldn't work to give everyone say an extra $5K per year from Social Security, while at the same time adding a $5K deductible to Medicare? If you need a higher level of health care, you're in exactly the same position as before. If not, you're incentivized to avoid unneeded care so you can keep the cash. Everybody wins. — ta987

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