Developer seeks $5 billion from Subway founder

A developer on Thursday sued the founder and president of Subway restaurants for $5 billion, claiming the billionaire businessman hijacked his dreams of creating the nation's first eco-sustainable city.

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Mattress firm founder's son found mentally unfit

A judge has ruled that a Long Island man accused of murdering his mother is not mentally fit to stand trial.

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DC memorial set for Ben's Chili Bowl founder

A memorial is set for the founder of Ben's Chili Bowl, the landmark Washington, D.C., diner that has become a frequent stop for politicians and celebrities.

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Ben Ali, founder of Ben's Chili Bowl in DC, dies

Ben Ali, the founder of Ben's Chili Bowl diner, a landmark in Washington's black business and entertainment district and a frequent stop for politicians and celebrities, has died. He was 82.

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BET founder mimics Va. gov candidate's speech

The billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television apologized Monday for pretending to stutter at a campaign event as she mimicked the Democratic candidate for governor.

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Gap Inc. co-founder Donald Fisher dies

Donald G. Fisher, who co-founded apparel giant Gap Inc., has died at age 81 after a long battle with cancer.

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Founder of Sazon Goya Food Company dies at age 79

Family members say the founder of a major Hispanic food company has died in his South Florida home. He was 79.

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Thin-looking Kim Jong Il makes rare appearance

A thin-looking Kim Jong Il made a rare public appearance Wednesday as North Korea paid solemn respects to his father, the country's late founder, on the 15th anniversary of his death.

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NY mattress mogul lives with crushing losses

For years, the commercials beckoned TV viewers in New York to do something that seemed laughable at first: order a mattress by phone. But the idea worked, making a mattress mogul of an Ecuadorean immigrant who as a kid had sold soda off the back of a donkey.

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1800mattress founder's wife dead; police blame son

The wife of a leading mattress retailer in New York City has been found dead in her Long Island home and police have accused her 38-year-old son of second-degree murder.

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Guess co-founder, Calif. gov hopeful has tax lien

A Guess clothing company co-founder who recently filed papers to run for California governor owes the state $1.7 million in taxes.

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InfoGroup founder: Company should consider a sale

The founder of database provider InfoGroup Inc., who was forced out as chief executive earlier this year, now wants the company to explore a sale.

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Federal Jury Convicts Nat'l Century Exec

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted the founder of a failed health care company of trying to bribe a witness in an upcoming $1.9 billion fraud trial.

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Ex-National Century Exec Goes on Trial

Before Lance Poulsen can fight charges that he was the mastermind behind a $1.9 billion fraud scheme, the former CEO of National Century Financial must first deal with allegations that he proposed paying a government witness $500,000 to lie on the stand.

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Wikipedia's Wales Hit Over Expenses

Virtually anyone can edit an entry on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. But its founder is finding it's not so easy to cover his tracks after a messy breakup with a TV personality and a dustup over his expenses began playing out on the Web.

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After Roberts Dies, Salary Will Live On

The 87-year-old founder of Comcast Corp.'s pay will keep going to his beneficiaries for five years after his death under a new agreement.

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NAACP Wants Apology From Overstock Chief

The founder of Overstock.com rejected the NAACP's demand for an apology Friday after an Internet video surfaced of him saying that Utah minorities who don't graduate from high school might as well be burned or thrown away.

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Daewoo Chair Gets 8 1/2-Year Prison Term

A Seoul appeals court on Friday sentenced the founder and former chairman of collapsed conglomerate Daewoo to eight and a half years in prison on a range of charges including embezzlement and accounting fraud.

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Daewoo Founder Sentenced to Prison Term

A Seoul court on Tuesday sentenced the founder and former chairman of collapsed conglomerate Daewoo to 10 years in prison for a range of charges including embezzlement and accounting fraud.

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The ex-wife of Wall Street magnate Steven Cohen, founder of the $13 billion hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, has filed a civil racketeering suit against Cohen in which she accuses him of committing insider trading violations.

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Prosecutors say a Hollywood executive bribed sheriff's officials and a jail worker with money and gifts that included a Cartier watch and Oakland Raiders tickets in exchange for preferential treatment for "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis while he was locked up last year.

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Within Article: "Attorney Reads Casey Anthony Statement On Caylee Memorial" --AND-- "CONTROVERSIAL ORGANIZATION COULD PROFIT FROM MEMORIAL"

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Excerpt: An Orlando attorney who stepped out of the Anthony case is jumping back into the fray with a strongly-worded response to one of the defense's motions on the court's Friday morning agenda.

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Casey Anthony was there Friday as her lawyers battled it out with prosecutors over several legal motions, but one big question still remains. When will the case against Casey go to trial?

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- George Anthony, the father of Casey Anthony, won't be released from a Daytona Beach hospital Monday, but attorney Brad Conway told Eyewitness News that it's possible George will be released this week.

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Video Report / Fri., Jan. 23, 2009 / --Dominic Casey --Witnesses --Motions --Casey must show-up in court

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Article covers: Motion Hearing Scheduled, Baez and getting paid and a little bit on the documents just released.

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--Note: It's the second story on the page.-- Excerpt: The leader of Texas Equusearch said Thursday that Casey Anthony not only broke the group's hearts, she also broke the bank. Tim Miller is giving new insight into the days he spent with Anthony.

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Excerpt: Tim Miller, the founder of Texas EquuSearch, has told the Orlando Sentinel that getting his group involved in the Caylee Marie Anthony case might be one of the biggest mistakes he's made for the organization.

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Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, edited his own biography on Wikipedia several times.

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---Main Link is Video. Print Story link below.--- Calling all ghosts.

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Acorn's top management is separately facing questions over its handling of the embezzlement of $1 million of its money by the brother of the group's founder.

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CNN reports on Sarah Palin's connection to, and her husband, Todd Palin's membership in an Anti-American fringe group, the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) which was founded by a domestic terrorist.. See more irresistible headlines

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Pride and Bigotry in America

The hurt of race and bigotry erupted in the U.S. primary elections. On the Martin Luther King holiday, a group of "white separatists" conducted a rally in Jena, Louisiana, now a hot spot for racial contest.

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SALT LAKE CITY — The founder of Overstock.com rejected the NAACP's demand for an apology Friday after an Internet video surfaced of him saying that Utah minorities who don't graduate from high school might as well be burned or thrown away.

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....Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is mulling an investment in Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more...

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 29 — Mark E. Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking Web site estimated to be worth upward of $1 billion.

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The founder of Facebook stands accused of stealing the ideas and business plan of three men behind a rival social networking site. But a Boston judge yesterday told ConnectU's founders that they must produce more evidence to support its claims.

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The founder of the internet site Facebook will be in court this week defending an allegation of stealing the idea from three former fellow Harvard students.

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Yahoo CEO Terry Semel steps down and is replaced by company founder Jerry Yang.

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It may not be one of the Internet's grandest accomplishments, but with the number of active bloggers hovering somewhere around 100 million, according to one estimate, there are some serious bragging rights to be claimed by the first person who provably laid fingers to keyboard in …

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YouTube's bonanza trickles down Yes, the founders got rich when Google paid $1.65 billion for the video-sharing site. But the treasure is enriching employees far down the corporate ladder, too.

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Co-Founder of Newsvine creates SexVine

Calvin Tang, Co-founder of newsvine who describes himself as the company's face to the community has provoked outrage amongst religious groups today by launching Newsvine's first ever Sex group.

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In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question.

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