The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Reuters:  The Bank of Japan eased policy to fight a rise in the yen. Reuters:  Obama said the economy is not growing fast enough. Reuters:  Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will buy Infineon’s mobile…
Secrecy is critical to more businesses than most people might imagine. Entire industries are based to some extent on the process of creating goods and services and then putting them behind walls…
Patent wars in technology are nothing new. Sometimes they are promising, sometimes they are just noise-making events. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing LLC has filed a complaint today in the U.S. District Court…
Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched its realtime search product saying, “we’re making our most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools to help you find…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters:  Bernanke may admit the economy is weak but not five details of the Fed’s plans. Reuters:  Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) outbid Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) for 3Par (NYSE: PAR) by offering $27 a…
The most unhip companies in America are wise to social media and employees better watch what they say on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Now, lawmakers in Germany are trying to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Skype, which offers free voice calls from PC-to-PC and cheap calls from phones has about 400 million subscribers. More than 25 million of them use the service at any one time. The…
Reuters:Â Â BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) will take its case to Potash (NYSE: POT) shareholders. Reuters:Â Â Google In.c (NASDAQ: GOOG) will allow phone calls from Gmail accounts. Reuters:Â Â The Bank of Japan may…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have a new application for Gmail that is another one of those things that won’t make the company that much more money. Still, it is going to…
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is late to the smartphone market. Very late. It has begun to sell its new Aero handset with AT&T (NYSE: T). The Aero costs $99.99 with a two-year subscription…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) says it has finally integrated its search function with Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing, part of the deal that the two companies set over a year ago. The two search…
Reuters:Â Â BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is likely to show strong profits as it continues its quest to buy Potash (NYSE: POT). Reuters:Â Â Chrysler will have a hard time turning a profit this…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) can afford to buy GM. The No. 1 US auto firm makes a fair amount of money, has nearly 20% of the American car market, and is the largest…
