Courtesy Boeing Co.The blame for fires and potential mechanical failures on a large portion of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) fleet has been put at the feet, for the time being, of Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which announced a loss in its most recent quarter, will add 5,000 new workers, as CEO Jeff Bezos dares Wall Street to desert him. It will not. As has been…
courtesy of General MotorsOne reason car sales have risen so far might be that more Americans drive than in the past. A recent study says that is not true. Driving by Americans peaked in…
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) cannot inspect its suppliers in China often enough, or warn them about their future with the big U.S. consumer electronics firm enough to keep the occasional supplier…
ThinkstockBain & Company released research in 2004 that showed that 70% of all mergers failed to create shareholder value. A closer look at the Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) tie up with Publicis Groupe fits the…
thinkstockIn an industry in which consolidation has gone on since the “Mad Men” age, a mammoth one has just taken place. Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) will combined, and according to most experts,…
Courtesy Volkswagen AGThroughout the recession and the Chapter 11 filings that nearly destroyed General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and Chrysler, the ad industry lost one of its most important categories. Even Ford Motor Co.…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsA billionaire should be able to take a few weeks off in the summer, particularly one who works as religiously as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer. His net worth…
courtesy of ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a company with a new CEO, but without a future. Everyone agrees with that, except Zynga. That leaves with game company’s board with the dilemma, which is, if…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.It is enough money to buy up most of the residential property on Museum Mile, a northern part of New York’s Fifth Avenue, or every Ford ever built? That won’t happen,…
ThinkstockWall Street’s first reaction to the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) earnings release was that its extraordinary revenue increase of 22% was as astonishingly great as it was unexpected. The second was that Amazon continues…
courtesy of StarbucksStarbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) continues to surge, as its recent earnings report showed. At about the same time it released the good numbers, it announced a partnership with Danone to sell ready-to-eat parfait Greek…
ThinkstockThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that it is this simple: the cancellation of the automatic spending reductions specified by the Budget Control Act of 2011, or sequestration as it is commonly called, would…
courtesy of SamsungSamsung announced its earnings for the fiscal second quarter of the year. Revenue was up 9% to 57.46 trillion won quarter over previous quarter. Operating income also rose 9% to 5.93 trillion…
courtesy of McDonald'sFor people who want to get into the food franchise business, and want to do so on a budget, the best choice is a deal with Papa John’s International Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA),…
ThinkstockTo the naked eye, new data from Spain’s National Statistics Institute appears positive. The unemployment rate in the second quarter was 26.3%, down from 27.2% in the first three months of the year. However,…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsThe best news to come from the most recent Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) earnings report rests on its successful move into mobile advertising. Large audiences of virtually all major sites have…
ThinkstockGoogle Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) single greatest weakness may be its poor market share in the world’s largest country as measured by population and Internet users — China. To make matters worse, Google’s primary competitor…
ThinkstockThe Ifo Business Climate index for Germany in July showed an improvement, bolstered other data about a stronger economy in the European Union’s largest economy by gross domestic product (GDP). Markit released PMI data that also…
National Hurrican CenterFlood, drought, pestilence. Old Testament style disasters cost $85 billion in the first half of 2013, according to the Aon Benfield “Global Natural Disaster Analysis.” According to the report: Global natural disaster losses…