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Are Wireless Companies Profiting From Sexting?

ThinkstockUpdate: Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) announced Thursday morning that it has launched a new, lower-cost plan for its Verizon Wireless customers. The new plan, called MORE Everything, increases customers’ monthly data allowances and…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 13 years ago

Facebook Busts New All-Time High — With Help From Twitter?

Courtesy Facebook Inc.Social media giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has posted an all-time high share price in the early afternoon on Thursday and it’s a little difficult to figure out why. There’s no news…

Paul Ausick · 13 years ago

Avon CEO Fails in Promise to Turn Around Company

After years of poor financial results and scandals under former CEO Andrea Jung, new Avon Products chief executive Sheri McCoy promised a turnaround. It is now clear that she has failed.

Douglas A. McIntyre · 13 years ago

Irony or Paradox? New York Regulation Could Save Bitcoin

Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin has been facing its own identity crisis of late, and its future is back to looking very uncertain. After MtGox suspended withdrawals and after widespread reports of Bitcoin attacks, news from around…

Jon C. Ogg · 13 years ago

Verizon Slashes Prices to Match AT&T, T-Mobile

It had to happen. Verizon Communications announced Thursday morning that it has launched a new, lower-cost plan for its Verizon Wireless customers. A price war is well and truly being fought among the four…

Paul Ausick · 13 years ago

Natural Gas Inventory Slips, Sending Prices Higher

thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported Thursday morning that U.S. natural gas stocks decreased by 237 billion cubic feet for the week ending February 7, compared with an expected drop of 228 billion…

Paul Ausick · 13 years ago

GM Recalls Cars After Six Deaths

General Motors has issued a recall notice for nearly 780,000 compact cars following 22 reported crashes in which six people died when the cars' airbags failed to inflate. The cars involved are Chevrolet Cobalt…

Paul Ausick · 13 years ago

J.C. Penney Changes CFOs: Will It Help?

J.C. Penney announced Thursday morning that CFO Ken Hannah is leaving the company and will be replaced by Ed Record, who has 25 years of retail management experience, most recently as COO at Stage…

Paul Ausick · 13 years ago

Pepsi Boosts Dividend After Earnings Beat

PepsiCo reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 earnings before markets opened Thursday morning and also hiked its dividend. Shares were down fractionally in premarket trading.

Paul Ausick · 13 years ago