Briefing

THE WEEK

THE DOW HIT RECORD HIGHS

News Corp.

Announced the Fox Sports cable channel (featuring Regis)

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

Groupon

Discharged long-suffering CEO Andrew Mason

‘Words alone will not stop Iran.’

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Prime Minister of Israel, dismissing President Obama’s plan to negotiate more with Iran over its nuclear program, adding that “sanctions must be coupled with a clear and credible military threat”

‘Dennis Rodman was a great basketball player … and that’s where we’ll leave it.’

JOHN KERRY, U.S. Secretary of State, after Rodman’s trip to North Korea; two days after he left, the country threatened to scrap the truce that ended the Korean War

1,004

Number of media outlets accredited by the Vatican to cover the papal conclave; they represent 65 nations and 24 languages

50 million

Number of passwords that were reset when the popular online-reminder app Evernote was hacked

‘If he had a plan, why wouldn’t Senate Democrats go ahead and pass it?’

JOHN BOEHNER, U.S. House Speaker, claiming President Obama has no plan to replace sequester cuts

1,164

Height, in feet (355 m), of the new JW Marriott Marquis in Dubai, which is now the tallest hotel in the world

‘I pursued a couple of elephants but came up empty-handed.’

WARREN BUFFETT, lamenting the lack of significant Berkshire Hathaway acquisitions in 2012

‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’

TAYLOR SWIFT, citing a favorite quote to Vanity Fair, after being asked about the jokes Tina Fey and Amy Poehler cracked about her during the Golden Globes

Sources: Reuters; Vanity Fair; NBC (2); Berkshire Hathaway