courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Over the weekend, a Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) public relations department manager, Jonathan Sandler, decided to mount a personal attack on a 24/7 Wall St. writer for an analysis…
thinkstockThe federal government has watched the hacks of Twitter and the sites of The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) and Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) and is ready to defend America against any…
By the estimates of industry research firm IDC, Microsoft posted 900,000 sales of its Surface tablet in the fourth quarter. That put it behind industry leaders like Apple and Samsung, but not hopelessly behind…
courtesy of General MotorsThree years ago, China seemed so promising to foreign car companies. Annual sales of cars and light trucks passed those in the United States, which had been the largest market for…
ThinkstockSwatch, the largest watch and watch component company in the world, announced record second half profits for 2012. Its net income at $967 million was a 27% increase over the same period in 2011.…
ThinkstockA Tomato Truce The tomato wars between Mexico and the United States are over. The announcement was front page news, although it is hard to see why that happened. According to The New York…
courtesy of AOL, IncJapan Airlines approaches Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) about the cost of its grounded 787 Dreamliner fleet. (Reuters) Electric cars sales may be hurt as the industry considers hydrogen-powered vehicles. (Reuters) BlackBerry…
ThinkstockCorporate governance issues are sometimes a blessing for shareholders, but they also can crush the rights of shareholders in many cases. Tracking CEO pay of large public companies is now considered open hunting season, since…
ThinkstockOne more piece of economic data out of China added to an almost unbroken line of statistics which show its GDP, factory, and service activity have picked up sharply since a slump which lasted through the…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning on the heels of a solid report on U.S. nonfarm payrolls, which rose less than expected but on top of a large upward revision for December (more…
ThinkstockThe latest data from Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) shows that drilling rig counts in North America rose by 15 from a week ago and fell by 318 from the comparable period a year…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday proposed new rules and percentage standards for 2013 biofuel consumption. The agency wants U.S. drivers to use 16.55 billion gallons (about 394 million barrels) of certain renewable…
ThinkstockEarlier this week , it was announced that Toyota officially surpassed General Motors as the world’s leading auto manufacturer, reclaiming a title it lost to the American company in 2011 following a series of…
courtesy of General MotorsFollowing the path set out earlier by Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) and Chrysler Group, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) posted double-digit sales gains in January. Ford sales…
ThinkstockIn the month of December, 56,000 U.S. homes were foreclosed, down from an upwardly revised total of 58,000 in November and down from 71,000 in December 2011, according to research firm CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX).…