Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS), 7-Eleven Inc., Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) and other well-known retailers are expected to announce that they have banded together to develop a…
Standard Chartered pays a New York bank regulator $340 million to settle money laundering charges that involved Iran. (Reuters) The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) names BBC General Director Mark Thompson…
Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) may be the first of the large Web 2.0 companies that has gone public in the past year to lay off workers. At least it should be. The…
Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ: CG) and China PE funds may take Focus Media Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ: FMCN) private. (Reuters) The company that owns the Empire State Building expects earnings to double in…
We’ve noted already that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are defying today’s sell-off trend and that the search giant got an upgrade to ‘overweight’ with a $775 price…
First it was the purchase of Zagat. Now from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JW-A), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is buying up the assets of a number of its consumer print…
Jon C. Ogg Outside of rivalry for eyeballs, maps, and all other things digital… What do Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have in common? They are both within about 4% of…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday morning. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) raised to…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will cut 4,000 Motorola workers now that the buyout of the handset maker is complete. Media outlets claim the cuts will come because Google only wants to build…
The “lockup” of shares held by investors who took part in rounds of Facebook Inc.’s (NASDAQ: FB) funding that happened before the firm’s initial public offering will end on August 16. Many…
Brent crude rises to a three-month high of $114. (Reuters) Standard Chartered may try to settle with the government over money laundering charges. (Reuters) Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) cuts prices…
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concluded a settlement with Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) involving charges that Facebook lied to users when it told them it would keep personal information private and…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle a claim by the Federal Trade Commission that the company misled users of the Safari browser Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) over a cookie tracking issue. We have received an email confirming the press conference and seen the press release showing that…
NokiaMobile phone maker Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) has agreed to sell a portfolio of more than 500 patents to Vringo Inc. (NYSEMKT: VRNG) for an undisclosed sum. Nokia will retain some ongoing…
