ThinkstockIn an attempt to keep the assets of Clearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) out of the hands of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) and Softbank, which has offered to take control of Sprint, DISH Network…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook tried to salvage the company’s reputation yesterday, which has been hurt by a lack of new products and a loss of market share to…
ThinkstockThe new OECD Economic Outlook did not have much in it that was different from other major studies and predictions from agencies like the International Monetary Fund. Europe is in trouble. The United States…
courtesy of Ford Motor CompanyFord Motor Co. (NYSE: F) shares reached a 52-week high, which is a sign Wall Street is willing to forgive the company’s atrocious performance in Europe. The trend also is…
ThinkstockMen are not the primary bread winners in more and more homes. The effects on them may be devastating emotionally, but the recession turned a centuries-old trend against them. New Pew Research data on…
ThinkstockThe job market always has been broken in two by employment experts. One segment is the employment among firms with 100 positions or less. The other is at bigger companies, which range, for measurement purposes,…
ThinkstockAlmost every major study on home prices, home sales, foreclosures, housing starts and housing inventory released in the past month point the same direction, maybe. Housing has gotten better — it has begun to…
ThinkstockThe headlines about China’s GDP growth based on International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts was the same across the media. The rate will settle at 7% this year. The People’s Republic government has had an…
NOAAFord on the Rise Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) shares reached a 52-week high, which is a sign Wall Street is willing to forgive the company’s atrocious performance in Europe. The trend also is…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook says he expects the company to release more innovative devices. (Reuters) Investors are worried about why the Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) board…
ThinkstockThe price of oil has dropped below $94 a barrel, and gasoline prices have been falling as well. The ongoing decline in gas prices in the United States may be helped by low travel…
ThinkstockFor every Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) success, there is at least one failure in the electric car industry. One company just went under, less than a week after Tesla paid off U.S. government…
ThinkstockAnother black eye for the cruise industry, which over the past year has been dogged by a ship that ran aground and killed passengers, a number of cases of food poisoning and a ship…
courtesy of Disney“Fast & Furious 6” brought in $122.2 million in North America over the Memorial Day weekend — a record for the period. Adding overseas, the figure was $366 million. The movie may…
courtesy of The Car Spy, via Wikimedia CommonsGermany auto workers are not low paid by the standards of almost any other auto workers in the world. That may not matter as much as it…
ThinkstockMany experts on worker productivity believe that vacations help rejuvenate people and, therefore, they can work more efficiently. The point of view could be a myth. The United States remains the only nation that…
NOAALow Gasoline Prices Oil dropped below $94 a barrel, and gasoline prices have been falling as well. The ongoing decline in gas prices in the United States may be helped by low travel levels…
courtesy of AOL, IncVolkswagen may have a compensation agreement with 100,000 workers. (Reuters) The European Union asks telecom companies about Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) competitive actions against other smartphone companies. (Reuters) Hon Hai and…
courtesy of Time WarnerThe price point at which Hulu will sell may hit $1 billion. It is not worth that. As a matter of fact, in an extremely crowded video on demand market, it…
ThinkstockGoldman Sach’s (NYSE: GS) huge effort to rehabilitate its reputation has worked, according to its CEO Lloyd Blankfein (Reuters) China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) may try to improve the quality of coal used in…