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Patrick Breslin. (Illustration: Joao Maio Pinto)

Patrick Breslin, Studley's East Coast Retail Services Pro

In September, retail brokerage veteran Patrick Breslin joined Studley as executive vice president of East Coast Retail Services, a division that, until now, the international real estate firm never had reason to focus on. The former president of Grubb & Ellis’s U.S. retail division and a retail broker at CBRE, Mr. Breslin, 50, spoke about his strategy at the International Council of Shopping Centers this week, his goals for Studley’s new East Coast Retail division and father Jimmy Breslin’s views on commercial real estate.

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Occupy Wall Street

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The Occupation Board is empty! (Via CNN)

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Become Office Drones; Have Big Empty Whiteboard for Media Content (Video)

A lot of people have been asking, “Where did all the people from Occupy Wall Street go to?” Well, some of them are holding G.A. meetings at 60 Wall Street (in the Deutsche Bank atrium), or doing work at the TD Bank that they’re currently occupying. CNN got the tip off and headed over to “The Occupied Office” (which at first we thought was going to be an Office parody because that’s how they styled their signs). Read More

New Toys

(via Mashable)

CNN Acquires iPad News App Zite

CNN has acquired San Francisco-based tech company Zite, CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton announced today. Zite is a free news app for iPads that collects user data to curate (or aggregate) a personalized variety of content from free sources accross the web in a magazine-style experience.

All of the Zite team is sticking around, though it will be a wholly owned subsidiary and stand-alone business of CNN.

Zite is a Flipboard competitor, and its curation practices have elicted a bunch of cease and desists from news producers like the Washington Post and the AP, according to TechCrunch. Read More

Responses

Don Lemon, CNN Anchor, Observer 2011 Media Power Bachelor

CNN’s Don Lemon Pens Column Regarding Media Power Bachelor Status

As the fallout from last week’s reveal of our Media Power Bachelor and Bachelorette lists continues to unfold—and then some—we took note of one of the more famous names to publicly acknowledge having made our list, the openly gay and supposedly taken CNN anchor Don Lemon. In a column penned for CNN’s website today, Mr. Lemon clears up any misconceptions one might have about his marital status (or his inclusion on the list). Read More