Updated throughout the day. The SEC may publicize details of prosecution even if people settle with the agency (NYT) Borders (BGP) will repay a $43 million loan to Pershing Capital. (NYPost) The Apple…
Reuters: Peabody Energy made a bid for Australia’s Macarthur Coal. Reuters: Some Yahoo! (YHOO )email accounts were hacked in China and Taiwan. Reuters: Japan export orders hit a six-year high.
Google (GOOG) and perhaps China cannot figure out whether the search company’s results which are displayed on the mainland are being blocked by the government or due to defects with Google’s servers.…
Walmart.com typically falls into the top 20 most visited sites in the US as measured by Comscore, just behind online e-commerce giant Amazon.com (AMZN). Walmart has launched initiatives to increase its traffic including cut-rate…
These are 24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings for Week 12.
Reuters: A suicide bomber killed 37 in Moscow. Reuters: China sentenced Rio Tinto (RTP) executives in prison for ten years. Reuters: A JPMorgan $1.4 billion tax write-off faces FDIC scrutiny. Reuters: Some Apple…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
Shares of Chinese search engine, Baidu, which has a market share of about two-thirds of the internet users on the mainland, have risen from $170 a year ago to $609 today. The…
Reuters: EU leaders are divided on Greece before their summit. Reuters: Changes in the health care bill will go back to the House. Reuters: China described interest rates as a “heavy-duty weapon”…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
It was not unheard of for American media correspondents to pass information to the US military during WWII. Perhaps the Chinese had that in mind when they accused Google (GOOG) of spying…
Douglas A. McIntyre Bono, the Irish rock star, has put significant money into Elevation Partners, arguably the worst run institutional fund of any size in the United States. Bono is listed as one of the…
Reuters: A Chinese newspaper accused Google (GOOG) of helping US intelligence Reuters: JP Morgan (JPM) is close to a huge tax refund deal with the FDIC. Reuters: Oil dropped below $81 on…
Ethisphere released its annual list of “The World’s Most Ethical Companies.” The research identified 100 companies. A committee of leading attorneys, professors, government officials and organization leaders put together the criteria. After that, the…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have…
