Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will buy Synthes for $21.9 billion (Reuters) S&P cut the Japan sovereign rating outlook because of the earthquake (Reuters) The Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation network was hacked and personal…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was badly beaten by the press as concerns about privacy rose after disclosures that iPhone software can track customer locations. The Flame Index started as a research tool in 2008 at…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Lawson Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWSN), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), USA Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: USAT).…
The head of Saudi State oil firm Aramco, Khalid al-Falih, said that his country is concerned about the effect of high crude prices on the global economic recovery. He also said, according to Reuters,…
The Pew Center on the States released new research that says “The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money they have set aside grew to at…
Taxpayers are more on guard about what the federal government spends than they have been in years, or perhaps longer, as threats of a high deficit and national debt highlight concerns about a drop…
Glam Media is the latest media company to claim that it will soon become the largest employer of journalists. At a dinner in San Francisco earlier this month, CEO Samir Arora said Glam will…
A review of data from the damaged Southwest Air (NYSE: LUV) 737 raised questions about Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) manufacturing process. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) has begun to market a tablet PC. (Reuters) Silver prices…
What’s the difference between this week’s wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton and everyone else’s? Logistics and money. The affair — no, make that spectacle — is rumored to cost as much as…
In February, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a public hearing to investigate whether employers are unfairly denying jobs to unemployed applicants. Though the issue was widely covered in the press and resulted in…
Today’s news includes a higher bid for a Canadian copper and gold miner, some higher quotas on Chinese metal exports, and the latest forecast on food prices for 2011 from the US Department of…
Today’s alternative energy watch begins with a look at the IPO filing by solar thermal maker BrightSource and then examines a new roadmap for biofuels offered up by the International Energy Agency. We’ll also…
Shares in RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) are trading lower today than they were five years ago. The stock peaked in July 2007 at around $35/share and hit a low below $7/share in March 2009.…
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is on a quixotic quest — to borrow a metaphor from another cash-strapped European country — to convince the world that his country will not have to restructure its…
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, April 21, 2011, 2:33 p.m. ProPublica has been covering gas drilling since 2008. When The Guardian asked us to participate in a series it is running about hydraulic fracturing and…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of AVANIR Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AVNR), Brocade Communications Systems (NASDAQ: BRCD), and Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU).…
Updated throughout the day. Supply problems will hurt sales of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPads (Reuters) Production problems at Boeing (NYSE: BA) caused trouble in its 737 planes (ABC) GM (NYSE: GM) will try to…
Gas prices are officially up $1 in one year, if anyone cares. The AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Reports shows that a gallon of regular gas cost $2.854 a year ago, and $3.863 yesterday. Maybe…
GM (NYSE: GM) may be the No.1 car company in the world this year, after it lost that position to Toyota (NYSE: TM) three years ago. The change of fates has more to do…