ThinkstockA lot of pixels have been burned since last Thursday’s release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler’s defense of his draft for proposed rules for maintaining an open Internet. In an…
courtesy of Tesla MotorsWe have written before about the difficulties that electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is having with car dealers in several states who are objecting to the automaker’s direct…
ThinkstockWe previewed three initial public offerings (IPO) scheduled to begin trading last week, but we got fooled. Two, which had already been postponed at least once, were joined by the third and none made it out…
ThinkstockBeing competitive among the manufacturing nations of the world amounts to more than just low wages. In fact, several emerging market nations known for their low-cost manufacturing are no longer cheaper than the United…
ThinkstockIn 2013, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio in the fast food industry was more than 1,000-to-1. Workers’ situation must be improving, though, because the ratio was 1,200-to-1 in 2012. McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) CEO Don…
thinkstockApril 25, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday following weak quarterly reports from some heavily followed stocks. The tech stocks were particularly hard hit as some of the momentum plays were headed south today.…
21st Century Fox Inc.“Captain America: The Winger Soldier” has topped the box office charts for the past two weeks and has hauled in some $207 million for Buena Vista studios and parent Walt Disney…
Wikimedia CommonsWhen a stock is valued at 72 times forward earnings, it is a pretty safe bet that investors are looking at a growth play. When the same stock has been publicly traded for…
ThinkstockThe final April reading on the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rose to 84.1, near its highest reading since 2007. A survey of economists by Bloomberg had a consensus estimate for a…
An exclusive report at Computerworld claims that Google is considering building out Wi-Fi networks in the cities and towns where it is deploying its high-speed Google Fiber Internet service.
After reporting earnings after markets closed on Thursday, Visa held its conference call to add some color to its rather boring second-quarter results.
Fuel cell product maker Plug Power priced an underwritten secondary stock offering of 22.6 million shares at $5.50 Friday morning. Shares opened at $5.62 Friday, down 6.5% from Thursday's close.
Ford reported mixed first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Friday morning. Operating margins in North and South America fell, but Ford's market share in China improved.
ThinkstockSina Corp. (NASDAQ: SINA), one of China’s largest Internet companies and the majority owner of Weibo Corp. (NASDAQ: WB), has had the two of its publication and distribution licenses revoked by the government in…
ThinkstockVisa Inc. (NYSE: V) reported fiscal second quarter 2014 results after markets closed on Thursday. The credit card issuer posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.20 and revenues of $3.16 billion. In…
courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported third fiscal quarter 2014 results after markets closed Thursday. The software behemoth reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.68 on revenues of $20.4 billion. In the…
thinkstockApril 24 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday following solid earnings reports last night from Apple and Facebook. Sentiment turned quickly, however, following reports that Russian troops were planning military exercises along the Ukrainian…
ThinkstockThere are more than 600,000 bridges in the U.S. and the average age of a bridge is 42 years. Drivers make approximately 210 million trips daily across deficient bridges in the nation’s largest 102…
When Ford reports first-quarter results before markets open Friday, the company is expected to post earnings per share of $0.31 on revenues of $34.06 billion. Not exactly heart-stopping performance.
courtesy of Starbucks Corp.Coffee prices started spiking in late January, from less than $1.20 a pound to near $2.15 a pound today. Milk and sugar prices are also higher, and eventually this confluence will…