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Kevyn Orr Discusses Tackling Detroit's Debt
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 2:41pm | 545Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr went over a deal to clear away some of its debt with its creditors, including reducing payments by over 24 percent, on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Wednesday. “We've been saying for some time that we're trying to reach deals with our creditors, specifically...
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King Digital CEO Confident In Future Following Rough IPO
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 3:43pm | 536King Digital Entertainment (NYSE: KING) CEO Riccardo Zacconi isn't crushed about anything. Maybe it's because he's sweet on mobile and social media. “We developed a model which is pretty unique in industry to launch — to find, first of all, to create games which are successful," Zacconi said on...
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Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon CEO, Defends Move Into eCommerce
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 4:31pm | 527Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) co-founder and CEO, appeared on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Friday to defend his company's transition into the mobile eCommerce space versus giants of that realm like Amazon seeming impossible to compete with. “Guidance for the first quarter's actually...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Ready For 'New World' Of Tech
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 3:07pm | 479Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman appeared on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Tuesday where she discussed redefining the company within a transitioning tech market that's emphasizing big data and cloud computing. Whitman sees the market getting better for a few reasons, including the...
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Alan Greenspan Sees Skills Gap, Not Low Demand In Jobs Market
Friday, February 7, 2014 - 12:29pm | 332Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Friday morning, where he discussed the state of the jobs market as he sees it as well as what can be done to help boost competitiveness and activity. “You're looking at an issue really of the working age...
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eBay CEO John Donahoe Wants To Keep PayPal In The Family
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 1:26pm | 374John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), went over the value of the synergies between eBay and PayPal in response to activist investor Carl Icahn's suggestion to have the latter separate from its parent company with claims that it'll accelerate PayPal's growth, on CNBC's Squawk on...
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Bill Nye Highlights Polar Vortex Freezing Dangers
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 5:16pm | 368Executive Director of The Planetary Society and beloved science guy Bye Nye appeared on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Tuesday to explain the physical and economic dangers associated with the extreme cold that's hit parts of the country from the polar vortex (not to be confused with the polar...
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Whole Foods Aims For 1,200 Stores
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 12:04pm | 371Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFM) co-CEOs John Mackey and Walter Robb appeared on CNBC's Squawk on the Street with host Jim Cramer to discuss the company's future growth from their new store in Brooklyn, which is the first in that area. Currently at 370 stores, Whole Foods is targeting around 1,200...
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Alan Mulally Says He's Committed To Ford
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 12:14pm | 349CEO Alan Mulally is sticking with Ford (NYSE: F). Mulally appeared on CNBC's Squawk on the Street with a car that looks like a grey lightning bolt matched with the body of a sleek raindrop, and it's a convertible to boot. Mulally bubbled enthusiastically while mentioning Ford's “50 years of...
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Howard Schultz's Plans For A Global Teavana
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:31am | 420Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO and Chairman Howard Shultz is excited about the company's Teavana acquisition, and he showed it gushingly on CNBC's Squawk on the Street Wednesday morning. "When we acquired Teavana, we acquired a jewel of a company that had basically 350 stores in malls of America,...