There was something poetic about the news of Roger Ailes's departure from Fox News breaking hours before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination. No presidential candidate has demonstrated the power of television and celebrity more than Trump, and no one did more to fuse GOP politics with TV and show business than Ailes.
Skechers, once the sneaker darling of Wall Street, is in a serious slump. The stock lost nearly a quarter of its value on Friday after disclosing an alarming sales slowdown and warning of more trouble ahead.
Roger Ailes' associates believe he'll try to settle the score with 21st Century Fox. In the meantime, he may be advising the Trump presidential campaign.
Twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Rodriguez launched Tres Lindas Cubanas Cigars to prove a point: women entrepreneurs can succeed in the male-dominated world of cigars.
Speculation about the Republican National Convention centered on two things: Whether Donald Trump would bring his reality-TV-honed media savvy to the proceedings; and how the nominee would fare wedding his improvisational speaking style to the strictures of this sort of carefully programmed event.
The Donald Trump campaign has invited a Washington Post photographer to a campaign event on Friday morning, at least temporarily lifting the ban on the paper that he put into place more than five weeks ago.