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…
Deutsche Borse and the New York Stock Exchange are near a merger arrangement, but political issues are still a problem (Reuters) Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) and Green Mountain are close to a strategic…
Reuters: A Deutsche Borse deal with the the NYSE (NYSE: NYX) faces regulatory resistance (Reuters) Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will try to create competition for Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
“Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg failed to reign-in Wall Street pay practices, according to a Congressional Oversight Panel report entitled “Executive Compensation Restrictions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program.” The panel did not…
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…
GM (NYSE: GM) workers will probably get about $3,000 in profit-sharing for 2010. The reward would cover 53,000 union members who are also hourly workers. The program is part of a plan…
The SEC will try to make market traders less reliant on ratings agencies. (Reuters) GM (NYSE: GM) will set up a profit-sharing plan for workers. (WSJ) S&P warned Japan on its credit…
Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) posted mediocre results for its fiscal third quarter which ended on December 31, and the nine months which ended on the same day. The world’s largest car company…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) bought the Huffington Post for $315 million. (Reuters) Sanofi-Aventis and Genzyme (NASDAQ: GENZ) are closer to a deal (Reuters) Hackers who broke into the NASDAQ will undermine investor confidence.…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
US domestic vehicle sales reached a a 27-year low in 2009 when only 10.4 million units were sold. The figure for 2005 was 16.94 million, a period of unusual prosperity. In other…
Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
Americans are used to being No.1 in nearly all the world’s businesses, and athletic endeavors. The foundation of that certainly began to erode in the 1970’s, when much of America’s manufacturing industry…
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings will be hurt by slowing PC sales .(Reuters) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to cut the dividend on their preferred shares. The money goes to the Treasury…
Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) announced that it will recall 1.7 million cars, most of them in Japan. The vehicles may suffer from fuel leaks. The new recall can be added to another…
