Updated throughout the day Yahoo! will sell its Japan interests to Softbank for $8 billion (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will offer support services to small businesses for $499 a year. The project will be…
Most businesses which operated before 1990 had to adapt quickly or be damaged, or even destroyed, as technology quickly evolved. 24/7 Wall St. looked at several industries and picked key companies in them to…
nationsonline.orgThe equivalent of PMI in Europe is starting to look like China’s. EuroStat announced that “In January 2011 compared with January 2010, industrial producer prices gained 6.1% in the euro area and 6.5% in the…
The sales of Toyota (NYSE: TM) cars and light trucks rose 42% in February to a total of 141,826. Toyota sold nearly as many cars last month as Ford Motor (NYSE: F) did. Ford’s…
The Pew Center on the States and the Rockefeller Institute of Government have released a report which says that states overestimated the amount of money they would bring in by an aggregate 10% in 2009.…
In its first annual report to Congress, called “Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue” the Government Accountability Office argued that the federal government could save several…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is in talks to sell its part of a Japanese joint venture for $8 billion. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will release its iPad 2 today. (Reuters) The SEC charged a former…
In the drive to increase solar power generation in Europe, Italy has trailed only Germany in subsidies and installed megawatts. Germany has lowered its subsidies for solar installations, though not as severely as feared…
Two weeks ago, Federal Judge Martin Feldman told the Obama administration to act within 30 days on a number of drilling permits for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,…
For reasons that are hard to understand, Noble Energy (NYSE: NBL) was hit with a wave of bad news after it announced that the company had received a permit drill in the Gulf of…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Central European Distribution Corp (NASDAQ: CEDC), Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), Sonun, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONS),…
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…
Updated throughout the day. China based hackers broke into Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE: MS) network (Bloomberg) The Sustainable Apparel Coalition which is a “green” association of retailers will measure the use of artificial substances in clothing…
The debate over brand values becomes more confused by the year. Several consultancies rank brand values. Each uses different methodologies, perhaps to defend why their figures differ from their rivals. The most recent study…
24/7 Wall St. has analyzed the prevalence of the major vices by state. These include gambling, drinking, use of tobacco, drugs, and the number of people who subscribe to pornographic websites. This is the…
There is a car price war about to take place in the US. It will be driven by the large number of new models which have begun to be released, the high price of…
The Office of the United States Trade Representative occasionally puts out a list of “Internet and physical markets that exemplify key challenges in the global struggle against piracy and counterfeiting.” China’s dominant search engine…
Ben Bernanke may indicate to Congress that the recovery is tentative and that the $600 billion QE2 program is still necessary. (Reuters) Future US auto sales may be undermined by high gas prices. (Reuters)…
China’s official purchasing managers’ index slipped to 52.2 in February from 52.9 in January, suggesting manufacturing activity on the mainland continued to soften, even as inflationary pressures mounted. The data, released by the China…
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