Wikimedia CommonsEven before global marketing campaigns, television commercials, and social media, a company’s logo has been important. Over time, as businesses and consumers have changed, most major companies have also changed their logos dramatically.…
According to many news reports, Facebook's service is down around the world. So far, the company has not addressed the situation, nor rumors that the collapse is worldwide.
thinkstockJune 18, 2014: Markets opened lower on Tuesday and spent most of the day waiting to see what the FOMC would do and say. After the announcement equities got the wind at their backs…
Amazon.com Inc.At a press event Wednesday in Seattle, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the company’s “Fire” phone, a 4.7-inch smartphone that is entering a sector dominated by Samsung Electronics and Apple…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve and Janet Yellen have released their rate and monetary policy for the June 18 FOMC announcement. While inflation was seen ticking up in the CPI report this week, the reality is…
Nokia has had several corporate governance announcements regarding its special dividend and buyback plan, and shares reached a new 52-week high.
Courtesy Porsche Cars North America Inc.Initial quality for new cars purchased in 2014 fell slightly compared with 2013. The average score for last year was 113 problems reported per 100 vehicles sold, compared with…
ThinkstockChina’s shadow banking system has long depended on the use of stockpiles of commodity minerals in the country’s warehouses as collateral for loans that do not show up in China’s official lending statistics. Now…
Atari.comAtari may have set the stage for the video game revolution in the 1970s and 1980s, but that did not prevent the company from eventually going bankrupt. Now Atari is back, according to its…
On Tuesday, Williams Companies priced a secondary stock offering of 53 million shares at $57 per share in a bid to raise about $3 billion to fund the purchase of Access Midstream Partners.
The buyout chatter that has been around Lululemon Athletica is being debunked by one of the analysts who was a long-term bull of the company.
It has been nearly eight years since arts and crafts retailer Michaels Companies went private. Now the co-owners have filed for an initial public offering, proceeds to be used to pay down a part…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories decreased by 600,000 barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 386.3 million…
Insmed shares screamed higher on Wednesday. The driver was an SEC filing stating the FDA had granted Arikace breakthrough therapy designation.
courtesy of Sony Corp.Sales video game consoles nearly doubled year-over-year to $187 million in May, and overall spending on hardware and software rose 52% to $586 million in the month. The PlayStation 4 from…