Is SpaceX Preparing to Land on Mars?
Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX is a wonder. Its rocket ships are a science fiction fan's dream and now Musk, who is also the founder of Tesla and SolarCity, has them pointed at…
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What Apple Really Gets By Buying Beats
Apple announces the acquisition of music company Beats, founded by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, in a deal totaling $3 billion.
Pentagon Awards $555 Million in Defense Contracts
ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 17 defense contracts with a total value of $554.6 million in its Thursday evening announcement of contract awards. Textron (NYSE: TXT) took home contracts representing nearly half the funds…
Online Shopping Creates Growing Number of Jobs
ThinkstockA Census Bureau report released Thursday puts more precise numbers than ever before on the e-retail revolution. According to the Bureau’s newly published “County Business Patterns: 2012” report, it’s not just Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and…
Americans Are Using More Solar Power
thinkstockSolar’s status is brighter than ever before, according to a Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) report released today. In an industrywide sign of success, 74% of all new generating capacity installed in the first…
Elbit Systems Wins Another Big Contract
ThinkstockThe defense and security contracts just keep piling up at Elbit Systems (NASDAQ: ESLT). Yesterday, the Israeli defense contractor announced its second big contract win in as many months, a $133 million contract to…
Why Fiat Chrysler Is Building a 600 Horsepower Dodge Challenger
Fiat ChryslerThere’s a method — and a business plan — behind the apparent madness. More details are slowly emerging about Fiat Chrysler’s (OTC: FIATY) upcoming supercharged muscle car, the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT “Hellcat.” We…
Falling Cost of Mortgages Helps Offset Rising Cost of Homes
ThinkstockFreddie Mac this morning released its weekly update on national mortgage rates, showing continued modest declines in interest rates, nearly across the board. Both 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, or FRMs, and 15-year FRMs got cheaper…
Pentagon Awards $540 Million in Defense Contracts
ThinkstockThe Pentagon awarded seven defense contracts in its Wednesday evening announcement of contract awards, totaling $540.4 million. By far, the largest of these contracts, allocating nearly 83% of all funds on offer for the…
Old Dominion Freight Line Delivers Good News for Investors
ThinkstockSince reporting Q1 earnings last month, less-than-truckload weight (LTL) trucker Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ: ODFL) shares have stomped the gas, and rushed ahead 12% already. This week, the company made an announcement that…
What Is Google Thinking With Its Self-Driving Car?
GoogleGoogle (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced Tuesday that it has begun building prototypes of a fully self-driving car. The search engine giant won’t be offering the new car for sale, at least not yet. These prototypes are intended…
Domino’s ‘No-Hitter’ Campaign Backfires
via Keith Allison, Flickr.A marketing campaign is only as good as its social media exposure, and sometimes things can go wrong quickly. That’s especially true on today’s Internet, and it’s a lesson Domino’s Pizza…
Gasoline Edges Up to $3.674 per Gallon
ThinkstockAmericans are paying slightly more at the gas pump this week, according to an Energy Information Administration report released Tuesday, which showed the national average price for regular gasoline clocked in at $3.674 per…
Pentagon Awards $127 Million in Defense Contracts
ThinkstockEmerging from the Memorial Day weekend, the staff at the Department of Defense got back to work yesterday, awarding nine defense contracts in its Tuesday evening announcement of contract awards. A total of $127…
Will Northwestern’s ‘Purple Pricing’ Kill the Secondary Ticket Market?
ThinkstockIn 2004, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) used an unfamiliar mechanism, known as a Dutch auction, to issue shares of its IPO. Unlike a traditional auction, which lets bidders compete for an item that rises in…
Toyota Bets Against Battery Electric Cars
Toyota To hear some analysts and auto enthusiasts tell it, it’s a done deal: The car of the future will be battery-powered. That’s the big bet that Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) and its investors…
‘X-Men’ Dominates Memorial Day Box Office While ‘Blended’ Gets Shredded
FoxEvery Memorial Day has its own tentpole movie release attached to it and this year it was Fox’s (NASDAQ: FOXA) X-Men: Days of Futures Past. Following the resurgence to the franchise that was X-Men:…
CBS Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank With Comedies
CBSWith the 2013-2014 season in the books, executives are turning towards what they hope will be a promising fall slate. Although investors, analysts and advertisers are still interested in the past as they want…
U.S. Services Sector Soars in May
ThinkStockThe Markit Flash U.S. Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) jumped 6.2% to 58.4 for May, according to a Markit report released today, showing its fastest rate of growth in 26 months. As key services…
American Science and Engineering Books a Banner Year
ThinkStockSince reporting Q4 and full-year fiscal 2014 earnings Thursday night, shares of X-ray bomb detector company American Science & Engineering (NASDAQ: ASEI) have gone on a tear — one interrupted, but only briefly, by the…