Westport Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ: WPRT) is surging on news this morning that it has signed a second deal with General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) for the company’s compressed natural gas engines for…
U.S. June car sales should be the best they have been for any month since 2007. That year was just ahead of the sickening drop in volume which accompanied the recession and eventually triggered…
Given the relative scarcity and high cost of rare earth minerals, it’s only natural that companies that currently depend on the stuff would search for substitutes. And if anything is going permanently…
General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) today issued a recall of more than 475,000 Chevrolet Cruze sedans to correct a problem that could lead to fires in the car’s engine compartment. The recall…
In the race for leadership in vehicle quality, American car companies have chased their Japanese rivals for two decades. Data from industry research firm JD Power show that U.S. manufacturers have started…
Automaker Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) today released its annual sustainability report, claiming a 22% reduction in energy used to build cars over the past 6 years and a plan to cut…
General Motors (NYSE: GM) lost $747 million, before interest and taxes, in Europe in 2011 and has lost $15.6 billion since 1999, the last year GM made money in the region. The big…
That is an attention grabbing headline. And Mark Zuckerberg should leave Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). He will not be pushed out, though, like Steve Jobs was at Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in 1985 when he…
Douglas A. McIntyre On Tuesday the US Department of Energy announced awards to 13 projects totaling more than $54 million. According to the press release: to advance transformational technologies and materials that can help American…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to lay off 10,000 people. (Reuters) RealtyTrac reports foreclosures rise for the first time in 27 months. (Reuters) China may cut rates rather than press stimulus. (Reuters) A number…
Leading business TV network CNBC, which is controlled by Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), and Yahoo! Finance, one of the most successful parts of the Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) content operations, will join forces in an attempt to form a…
GM’s (NYSE: GM) CEO Dan Akerson used the car company’s annual meeting to make several senseless comments. The first was that politician in Washington will need to end gridlock about how the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Members of the Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) board are close to picking a new chairman. (Reuters) Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) lack of success blocking rivals in court and the slow introduction of the iPhone…
US lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) has definitely had a rough year. Shares are down about -72%, making it the worst performer out of US battery makers like EnerSys…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will challenge Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) with its own map service. (Reuters) A Manpower Group survey shows that companies in most parts of the world do not want to add…
