ThinkstockApp tracker App Annie reports that consumers in Japan spent about 10% more than U.S. consumers did on all apps for smartphones and tablets in October. Japan has become the world’s number one country…
Wikimedia CommonsThere are several research firms and employee review websites that publish lists of the best places for people to work. The latest of these is from Glassdoor, the jobs and career online community.…
ThinkstockCEO compensation, relative to the amount the average american is paid, has skyrocketed in the past few decades. In 1965, the average CEO pay was 18.3 times the average worker pay. By 2012, CEOs…
MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) is getting smart about having a ridiculously high nominal stock price. The credit card processing giant has announced the approval of a 10-for-1 stock split. When your stock price is…
thinkstockDecember 10, 2013: Markets opened lower on Tuesday morning on another day of relatively light trading and likely some more profit-taking. The DJIA closed down 0.33%, the S&P 500 closed down 0.32%, and the…
ThinkstockGilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) has been on fire, so much that two insiders decided to stuff their holiday stockings with about $23 million in stock sales. Chairman and CEO John Martin sold 282,242…
General Motors Co.To put a punctuation mark on a day when the company named a new CEO, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) on Tuesday placed three vehicles on the list of six finalists for…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has a bit of a horse race going on over just how many iPhones it can sell into the China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) customer base. Speculation is…
ThinkstockIn a late burst of initial public offerings (IPOs) this year, there are no less than nine companies expected to begin trading this week. Not all are likely to make the cut, but there…
ThinkstockBanco Santander S.A. (NYSE: SAN) may be a banking giant based in Spain, and that automatically makes it one the banks of the PIIGS nations. Something hard to utter in the same question or…
ThinkstockIt is almost year-end, and investors have to be planning for 2014 and beyond for their portfolio, their assets and their taxes. Merrill Lynch expects the great rotation trade it touted for 2013 to…
ThinkstockThe Supreme Court of British Columbia issued a ruling late on Monday on a challenge by Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. (NYSEMKT: PBM) to an earlier ruling by the provincial government that denied the mining…
courtesy of StarbucksShares of Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) were down nearly 3% in the first hour of trading Tuesday morning, and there is really no big news to explain the slide. One possible explanation…
ThinkstockAfter the recession we came out of, and with the massive excess in capacity we have at large multinational companies, the small business component of the economy is where the major gains likely will have…
ThinkstockTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA) has moved from a great growth story to one of promise, to one of habitual disappointment. The company’s 2014 guidance is soft yet again. The company also is…