Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced it will propose to shareholders that it have a new share structure. Many investors believe the proposal favors the power of the founders too much. Those investors can sell their shares,…
Apartment vacancy rates reach a 10-year low, according to Reis. (Reuters) Tom Glocer, the departing head of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), makes $20 million. (Reuters) China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, says the monopoly…
Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad is the number one tablet PC in a new Consumer Reports survey. (Reuters) CEO pay jumps for last year as stock options rise. (Reuters) Avon (NYSE: AVP) turns…
News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) is considering the launch of a new national sports network to compete with the 600-pound gorilla, ESPN, owned by Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), and the recently re-branded…
Not only is Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) the 600-pound gorilla in the search business, the company’s YouTube streaming video service holds a similar position in the streaming video business. According to the…
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has announced that it will acquire London-based video software and content security firm NDS Group Ltd. for approximately $5 billion, including debt and retention bonuses. NDS is…
The US Department of Justice is prepared to sue Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and five book publishers for colluding to lift prices on electronic books according to a report in The Wall…
In yet another move aimed to boost its position in the streaming video space, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has signed a deal with Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB), adding the owner of MTV and…
Many of the companies that have entered the online content business have stumbled. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has a service. So does Walmart (NYSE: WMT). There are already several leaders, including crippled Netflix (NASDAQ:…
The tension over the financial crisis has risen at an astonishing rate in just three days. Downgrades of the sovereign debt of several nations have rattled the markets. But the most immediate trouble…
Olympus may partner with Samsung. (Reuters) RBS cuts 3,500 investment bank jobs. (Reuters) RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures reached a four-year low in 2011. (Reuters) International Monetary Fund senior executive Lipton sees no…
Covering a wide range of industries and behaviors, the 10Q Detective lists some of the more sophomoric — and predictable — regulatory filings made to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011:…
America’s largest newspapers have struggled to recover from what many analysts considered certain extinction. These properties are at the point where they have some chance to continue, although as smaller companies. Circulation…
Will Greece be kicked out of Eurozone? Greece is on the brink of expulsion from the eurozone. That would cause an immediate default of the nation’s sovereign debt, as well as trigger a series of…
The Federal Reserve cuts its forecast for employment and GDP growth. (Reuters) The expanding Greek debt problem will trouble the G20 summit. (Reuters) Groupon’s IPO may be a dollar higher than its…
