Some 300,000 West Virginia residents are unable to drink local water because of a recent chemical spill. The state is so poor, and its government so strained by efforts to dig people out of…
Volkswagen has said that it plans to storm the North American market. But its market share in December was 2.5%, a sign its sales continued to erode.
courtesy of Tesla MotorsWhether the architecture of the batteries which power Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) poises a danger to drivers or not, the car company has not been able to shake the image of one which…
courtesy of YouTubeYouTube, Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) huge video site, known at the place you can “broadcast yourself”, held its spot as the largest video website in the U.S. in December, and did so by…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.A company can become broadly hated if it alienates a large enough group of people. It may frustrate customers with poor service, anger employees with unpleasant working conditions or low…
Gasoline prices have not risen enough to effect the economy. And they may not come near $3.50 or $3.60 a gallon at all this year. But prices are rising again, and it is very…
No matter how much cheer there is in an unemployment rate of less than 7%, the figure remains much worse than its needs to be for a complete economic recovery.
At the current rate of decline, the number PC shipments could fall well below 300 million, a sum that would have been unimaginable just two years ago. No combination of price and new, extraordinary…
The RealtyTrac U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report for December 2013 shows that the number of U.S. residential properties that were deeply underwater has decreased. But the news for homeowners was not uniformly good…
Most of America's largest retailers have been quiet about their holiday results, although they certainly know how well they did for the season. The silence ought to cause a great deal of concern. After…
There are several CEO of the Year awards. But there is no CEO Hall of Fame picked by writers from business magazines, websites, television business shows or newspapers. However, there should be.
ThinkstockCompanies that sell hardware devices and the software that powers them can expect their total market to rise substantially this year. However, not every company will benefit as the battle for share continues to…
The dream that people would eventually buy individual movies online has finally become true. The clear winners based on the trend are Apple and Amazon.com.
If unemployment is at the foundation of measurements of national economic health, then the euro area and European Union remain crippled with little hope in sight for a recovery.
Several small but well-known companies have dumped the management structure that requires them to have a CEO. Could these actions, if effective, undermine the decades-long belief that business organizations have to be run by…
Into a market already awash with smartwatches, smartphones and voice recognition programs, Intel has decided to release its own programs. No one knows, however, if consumers even want to have these levels of intrusive…
ThinkstockHurricanes, floods, heat waves and snow storms. Any can be powerful enough or widespread enough to actually chip a piece of U.S. GDP improvement in a given quarter. With two-thirds of the nation wracked…
Google has lined up powerful allies as part of its push into the world of auto software. The new Open Automotive Alliance was launched Monday and includes Audi, GM, Honda, Hyundai and Nvidia.
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Investors in retailer stocks already know two things about holiday results. The first is that, over the past month of 2013, the rising tide of the stock market helped lift…
Which billionaires list is better, the one produced by Forbes, which is decades old, or the new list created by Bloomberg? The answer is that neither is better than the other, or perhaps neither…