Thomson Airways Boeing 787 G-TUIB" by Björn from Niedersachsen /lower saxony - IMG_6739Uploaded by russavia. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsThe pilot of a 787 Dreamliner was forced to shut…
In an effort to improve its production process for building its 787 Dreamliner, The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has begun completing assembly of the planes on uncovered tarmac at its Everett, Washington, plant. According…
United Continental Holdings Inc.U.S. airlines are among the lowest-rated industries in the country when it comes to customer satisfaction. According a survey completed earlier this year by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), only…
Petroleo Brasileiro SAPetroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), better known as Petrobras, reported second quarter results after markets closed on Friday. The Brazilian oil giant posted quarterly revenues of 82.3 billion reais (about $35.96 billion…
ThinkstockThere are just five initial public offerings (IPOs) on the calendar for the coming week, and one is a holdover from last week. The seven IPOs that were completed last week posted a total…
ThinkstockAugust 8, 2014: Stocks making new 52-week lows today included the following four firms. Sotheby’s (NYSE: BID) saw shares fall about 12% to a new 52-week low of $35.68 after posting lower-than-expected profits this…
thinkstockAugust 8, 2014: Markets opened higher Friday and all ten sectors were holding onto gains into the last half hour of trading. Consumer discretionary, energy, and utilities sectors performed best all day. Shortly before…
Wikimedia CommonsGeneral Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) issued a recall in late June on about 184,000 SUVs that the company had identified as being susceptible to a fire caused by a short circuit in the…
ThinkstockA stronger U.S. economy and a growing demand for employees are being joined by another trend according to the latest survey from Mercer. Pay raises are getting larger, if only modestly. Mercer, a subsidiary…
courtesy of Lululemon Athletica Correction: In an earlier version of this article the author wrote that Lululemon founder, Chip Wilson, suggested, “some women’s bodies just don’t work” for Lululemon pants and this led to…
Wikimedia CommonsSame-store sales for McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) could have been worse in July but it’s really hard to see how. The company reported Friday morning that U.S. same-store sales fell 3.2% compared with…
Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Samsung Electronics have announced an event for August 20th in New York at which the companies are expected to introduce a Samsung-built Nook. The…
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.Samsung Electronic has filed a document with the trial court citing a recent ruling from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that the court’s decision released in May that the…
ThinkstockSolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY) reported second quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning. For the quarter, the solar panel maker reported an adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) loss of $0.96 on revenue…
ThinkstockAugust 7, 2014: Stocks making new 52-week lows today included the following four firms. Coupons.com Inc. (NYSE: COUP) saw shares fall to a new 52-week low of $14.90 after posting a wider than expected…
thinkstockAugust 7, 2014: Markets opened higher Thursday but the thrill was gone by mid-morning when equities turned south and never came back. Only the utilities sector was able to stay in the black today.…
Google Inc.On Wednesday Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said it was expanding its same-day delivery service to 6 new metropolitan areas bringing to 10 the number of cities where Amazon Prime members can also get…
For the three months ending in June, Samsung Electronics gained 1.6% of U.S. smartphone market share, while Apple added 0.7%.
When SolarCity reports after markets close on Thursday, analysts expect a loss that is more than double the per-share loss in the year-ago quarter, but revenues are forecast to rise by two-thirds.
Since its June launch by Glu Mobile, mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has been estimated to be raking in about $700,000 a day, on its way to generating gross sales of some $200 million…