Wikimedia CommonsThe country’s largest home improvement store, The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD), announced this morning that it has begun hiring the first of more than 80,000 seasonal employees to staff its 2,256 stores…
ThinkstockHackers have scored another victory in a series that has extended from Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) China site, to the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) site, to The Wall Street Journal and to…
ThinkstockLiberty Global Inc. (NASDAQ: LBTYA), controlled by American billionaire John Malone, made a successful offer to buy huge U.K. cable firm Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ: VMED). The media has pegged the price as high…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is among the tech companies that had comments on the leveraged buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). The comments mostly were directed at Dell customers and future customers,…
courtesy Dell Inc.Critics of Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) $2 billion investment in the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) $24.4 billion leverage buyout believe that the world’s largest software company could harm its relationship with Dell…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.One of the strengths of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), perhaps second to its one billion users, is the amount of time people spend on the social network. That length of time…
ThinkstockThe best part of any budget is the part in which its architects forecast what will happen years into the future. Nations, companies and nonprofits have five-year plans. Most of these plans are not…
ThinkstockHackers Hit the Fed Hackers have scored another victory in a series that has extended from Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) China site, to the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) site, to The Wall…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Liberty Global Inc. (NASDAQ: LBTYA) will buy U.K. cable firm Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ: VMED) for $15.75 billion. (Reuters) Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (NYSE: RBS) expects LIBOR penalties in the hundreds…
courtesy of DellFor every Sergey Brin, there is a Michael Dell. While the Google co-founder and CEO has made his company one of the most valuable in the world with its shares reaching an…
ThinkstockSilver Wheaton Corp. (NYSE: SLW) is about to get larger. The company announced that it has entered into a binding term sheet to acquire the following from a subsidiary of Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE):…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMany stocks are on the move, and almost of the key movers have been on corporate earnings report except for one. We have blown through some of the news in…
courtesy of ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) closed up 7% ahead of earnings today, following a rating change to Buy from analysts at BofA/Merrill Lynch. Now we have the earnings, and the fourth quarter’s results…
courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is out with its fourth quarter earnings report. The entertainment and media giant has been challenging new highs and it now has the…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and maintained their upward momentum for essentially the whole day. Lacking any really bad news from Asia or Europe, U.S. markets shrugged off a weaker than expected…