Wikimedia CommonsA team of researchers from Samsung Electronics and Sungkyunkwan University in Korea have succeeded in growing a single-crystal layer of graphene at a size that could lead to the manufacture of bendable phones, tablets…
GM may have been able to hide the problem of its defective ignition switches for more than a decade because the U.S. Department of Transportation did not want to launch an investigation.
courtesy of Yahoo!Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is trying to get into the content and programming business. And in a really big way. The Wall Street Journal reports that sources say Yahoo is ready to…
ThinkstockMcDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) will close its three restaurants in Crimea, saying that it is “currently evaluating potential business and regulatory implications which may result from the evolving situation” in the peninsula annexed by…
Weibo Corp. The company that is generally described as the Twitter of China, Weibo, filed for a U.S. initial public offering (IPO) in mid-March and said it was seeking to raise $500 million. Most analysts…
Thinkstock Independent oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) and Canada-based pipeline operator Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) have been granted licenses from the U.S. Commerce Depart to re-export crude oil imported into the U.S.…
ThinkstockThere are five U.S. companies that make railroad cars. The four independently traded makers have posted significant share price gains in the past two years, but the gains have not been equally distributed. Demand…
ThinkstockTyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) has recalled more than 75,000 pounds of chicken nuggets after some customers complained of finding bits of plastic in their food. The recall includes 5-pound bags of frozen nuggets…
ThinkstockThe second quarter of 2014 is off to a fast start on the initial public offering (IPO) front. Eight companies completed IPOs last week, and another dozen are scheduled to price and begin trading…
Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Treasury Department on Friday issued a license to Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) allowing the company to sell airplane parts to Iran. The license is related to the deal between the U.S.…
thinkstockApril 4, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday but turned indisputably south by mid-morning. Momentum stocks soured late in the morning, and added to woes in biotech and tech stocks. In the final minutes…
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.For the three months ending in February, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) grew its share of the U.S. smartphone market by 0.1% compared with the three month period ending in November, from…
courtesy of Tesla MotorsThe state of California’s fund to provide $2,500 rebates to state residents who purchase an all-electric vehicle has run out of money. Expectations are high that funding will be restored by…
The Easter holiday is still more than two weeks away, and Amazon.com has trimmed prices on some holiday items and slashed prices on others. The online retail giant must have a motive for this…
GrubHub raised a higher-than-expected $192 million in an initial public offering, after pricing the shares above the marketed range. GrubHub's market value at one point topped $3.4 billion.
ThinkstockOne of the big initial public offerings (IPOs) we identified for 2014 was online auto seller TrueCar. On Thursday the company filed its preliminary Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…
Micron Technology reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings after markets closed Thursday night. Shares traded higher in the premarket on Friday.
When there are only two companies that make a very expensive product, any time there's a chance to take a big order, well, it is a very big deal. Boeing and Airbus have been…
ThinkstockWhen is getting smacked with a bill for $5.15 billion a good thing? When the bill could have been $14.5 billion. That’s the good news for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) today after it…
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is taking a few lumps today in a new report from Greenpeace that claims that the some firms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) base their electrical power purchases “solely…