ThinkstockThe China Internet Network Information Center reports that the number of people in the People’s Republic who are online has reached 564 million, which means it will soon be double the entire population of the…
ThinkstockThe number of people with underwater mortgages has begun to contract quickly, in what is likely to be a sign that real estate values have risen, or that people have paid down their home…
courtesy of NvidiaNew, Cheap iPhone Rumors Rumors about a cheap version of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone have gotten out of hand, at least based on how poor the sources are. Tencent Tech reports…
ThinkstockWhere was the board of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) when risk management might have stopped the “London Whale” problem and other investment decisions the bank probably should not have made? The…
ThinkstockNew data from the German Federal Statistics office show that the nation’s economy barely grew at all in 2012. Gross domestic product improved 0.7%. By most measures, GDP shrank in the fourth quarter, although numbers on…
courtesy of YouTubeThere is barely any reason for a single media company to be in the online video content business. Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube has such a huge presence that it sucks the…
thinkstockThe Japanese government says the future image of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 is at risk as the U.S. government probes problems with the plane. (Reuters) Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may be taken…
ThinkstockThe population of the United States living in urban areas is growing faster than the national rate. At last count, more than four in five Americans lived in a metropolitan area, an increase of…
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner continue to lobby Congress to find a quick solution to the debt ceiling problem. The game of chicken between the White House and some members of Congress is already too…
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveFed Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared this afternoon at an event at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy that was billed as a “conversation.” He is expected to answer…
Wikimedia CommonsFor all the problems that the “London Whale” incident cost J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and the markets in general, the sanctions handed down by the Federal Reserve and Office of…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite both getting pushed lower on a report that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has cut iPhone component orders on its…
ThinkstockDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has seen its shares rise handily on Monday on news (rumors really) that the company might be in talks with private equity firms in a possible go-private transaction. All we can…
ThinkstockDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may have found a way out of its woes as a public company. If you remember all of the private equity and leveraged buyout talks from the past, they are…
ThinkstockOn of the country’s largest coal miners, Consol Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) has outlined its investment plans for 2013, and the company expects to spend more on natural gas than it does on coal…