The problem with customer satisfaction surveys is that, by their nature, they look back in time and not forward. Bloomberg BusinessWeek announced the results of its customer service poll recently. The project used JP…
Reuters: The $15 billion jobs bill advanced in the Senate. Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) faces a US criminal probe. Reuters: KKR and TPC are close to a deal to buy Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) share of CICC.
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .5% to 10,352. Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Honda (NYSE:HMC). The Hang Seng rose 1.1% to 20,600. The Shanghai Composite dropped .7% to 2,983. At the open in…
Toyota (TM) should never have had a chance to be the No.1 car company in the world. It began as one of the small corporations built during the industrialization of post-WWII Japan. It eventually became…
Reply! Inc., an operator of a proprietary auction marketplace that facilitates online locally targeted marketing, has filed today for an initial public offering. While no financial terms were disclosed, the IPO is for up…
The New York Times reports that Walmart (WMT) has bought video on demand hardware and software company Vudu. The firm’s service is built into set-top boxes and Blu-ray devices. The paper reports that Vudu recently “announced deals to…
Deciding who wins and who loses in movie rentals has proven to be a difficult task other than stating the obvious…. Online distribution and delivery distribution have major benefits over being a brick and…
“Toyota Lied” is a good headline and catchy enough to get a reader to look further into a story. In this case catchy is not where it ends. According to The Wall Street Journal,…
Atlas Acquisition Holdings Corp. (AMEX: AXG) is a special purpose acquisition company, but not for very long. The company just announced that its board of directors has approved the dissolution of the company. In…
It was just a while ago that Millipore Corp. (NYSE: MIL) exploded upwards and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) saw a significant drop. The reason was a “merger agreement” being cited, but Bloomberg…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management strength and…
One of the top three international airline carriers, Deutsche Lufthansa, just announced a four-day strike. British Airways appears set to announce the results of a strike ballot in early March and other European unions are…
By Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire President Obama has proposed a bold idea for health care reform: giving the federal government the power to regulate insurance premium increases. The proposal, a reaction to…
Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG) has announced that its board of directors has voted unanimously against recommending the unsolicited buyout offer from Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE: APD). The deal rejected is the most…
Updated throughout the day. Goldman Sachs (GS) has begun PR efforts to improve its image (NYPost). Stanley Fink, the former chief executive of Man Group, and Larry Hite may start a new hedge fund in…
John Tamny of Forbes Addressing a joint session of Congress in 1974, President Gerald Ford made the surprisingly lucid observation that “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government…
These are some of the top research calls from analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Monday morning: Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) Started as Overweight and $46 target at JPMorgan. E*TRADE Financial (NASDAQ:…
Prominent economists, ignoring trouble in Europe and persistently high unemployment, expect 2010 to be as close to a banner year as the US economy has seen in four years. The National Association of Business reports that…
The Administration’s ambitious healthcare plan will not make it through Congress. A scaled down version might. The initial broad program had the support of the insurance and drug industries probably due to a calculation that “if you…
By Douglas A. McIntyre Yet another damaging revelation has undercut Toyota’s (TM) reputation for disclosing safety issues and the fixing potentially dangerous problems with its cars. The latest twist has a new angle: Toyota…