Gallup has released results of a poll about the attitude of the Chinese toward pollution. Experts have long believed that the People’s Republic cares little about clean water or air when those are…
courtesy Facebook Inc.Now that hackers have broken into eHarmony’s database, the game system of Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation network, Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Gmail system in China, and several U.S. government and major corporate websites,…
A rate cut in China prompts some economists to worry that May economic data will be weak. (Reuters) In the wake of its ratings downgrade by Fitch, Angela Merkel says that the…
The top anti-trust official in Europe said in a speech that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has run out of time to cure what the EC sees as rampant monopolistic behavior. EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin…
The Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) App store, and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) for Android face new competition. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has opened an app store of its own. Most of the software available at…
US Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) is scheduled to introduce legislation today that would allow a wide range of renewable energy projects to qualify as master limited partnerships (MLPs). The partnerships are common…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) best hope to keep from losing substantial market share to Samsung in the United States is to block the distribution of the South Korean firm’s new Galaxy S III. The Samsung…
Growth in mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be about 4%, the lowest growth rate since 2009. That’s according to the latest global mobile phone tracking data from IDC. Total…
Wikimedia Creative Commons, JohnnyMrNinjaAt the company’s annual meeting last week, Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) shareholders voted overwhelmingly to change the way the company’s board is structured. The vote was advisory only, but…
Ron Burkle and his Yucaipa funds have distributed nearly 12 million shares of Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) to shareholders of two of the funds, according to a filing yesterday with…
SEC filings often have unique filings of corporate actions or actions against companies by their shareholders. Sometimes they are nothing short of very odd. An obscure filing is one called the “PX14A6G”…
Jon C. Ogg Yesterday’s announcement from Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) that the company would its own content delivery network (CDN) based on the Open Connect standard. White-box provider Intequus will build the servers which will…
The G7 will hold emergency talks about the eurozone, with special consideration of Spain. (Reuters) A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that few Facebook users buy goods and services because of advertising and “likes,” and…
Since its introduction just over two years ago, the iPad from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has either been the only tablet device on the market or the biggest seller by a very…
The Samsung Galaxy S III, which is considered by many observers of the smartphone market to be an iPhone killer, will launch across all four U.S. wireless carriers next week. The handset…
