WALL STREET JOURNAL - Latest News - Retail's Slowdown Creeping Upscale

WALL STREET JOURNAL - Latest News - Retail's Slowdown Creeping Upscale 

Rob Zenilman submits: In today's Wall Street Journal, Justin Lahart & Amy Merrick's Consumers Curb Upscale Buying As Gasoline Prices, Housing Bite discusses how $3 a gallon gasoline and a weak housing market is causing more headaches for retailers & restaurants - only now it's hitting the middle class.

SanDisk confirms will cut prices for e200 series of MP3 players 
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that SanDisk will announce product updates and price cuts in an effort to compete with Apple Computer Inc\'s iPod.

Paramount ends production deal with Cruise: WSJ 
Paramount Pictures has severed its 14-year-old ties to Tom Cruise's production company because of his off-screen behavior, the chairman of the studio's parent company said on Wednesday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

AOL fires CTO in wake of search scandal 
( InfoWorld ) - AOL LLC has fired its chief technology officer (CTO) in the wake of a controversy in which the Web portal and Internet service provider released private search results of thousands of its subscribers, the Wall Street Journal Online reported Monday. Maureen Govern was fired effective immediately, the paper reported, just short of her first anniversary as CTO. A researcher

News: Report: AOL fires CTO in wake of search scandal 
AOL fired its CTO and two others in the wake of the controversy over posting private search results of subscribers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

'Top Gun' Cruise shot down by Paramount 
LOS ANGELES : Viacom's Paramount Pictures has cut loose Tom Cruise, saying his erratic behaviour and religious proselytising made their mission impossible, the Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday.