Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and P&G (NYSE:PG) are fed up with the violence and sexual content in television programs. The Wall Street Journal reports that they have joined forces to create a two-hour TV special…
Reuters: The EU summit will address the Greek bailout. Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will test an ultra-high speed broadband system. Reuters: Sweden took that top spot from the US for use of telecom…
Over what we saw during the recession, 2009 was the year that dividends were cut down to effect cash conservation to get through the recession. In fact, the dividend cuts may have…
President Obama will meet with China's "enemy of the state," the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet. The Chinese government already has protested the visit.
Exide Technologies (NASDAQ: XIDE) is getting crushed today after news that the company was notified by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) that the retailer will stop selling the company’s auto batteries in…
Challenger, Gray & Christmas announced that layoffs disclosed by major US firms last month hit 71,482 in January up from 49,094 in December. Downsizing at ten companies made up a third of the…
Ron Burkle, a financier who is fond of raiding retail companies, plans to take a 37% stake in the nation’s largest bricks-and-mortar book seller, Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS). Burkle’s Yucaipa investment funds…
Since the beginning of the year, Brazil’s ethanol industry has generated more than its share of news. Today brings the announcement of a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-A) and Cosan…
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Quarterly results at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) beat even the company’s own high estimates for revenue and profits. A lot of that was due to the success of the company’s Kindle e-reader…
These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF) Raised to Buy at SunTrust. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Raised to…
Reuters: Congress will probe the Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls. Reuters: Samsung said chip and TV demand is strengthening. Reuters: Some AIG (NYSE:AIG) employees are open to cuts in retention pay.
The large multinational companies were supposed to have done their layoffs during the first half of 2009, when the recession was at its worst. Those layoffs should have cut as close to the…
Blogs and tech websites are beginning to buzz with news that Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) may begin to sell the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nexus One handset powered by the search company’s own Android operating systems.…
Updated throughout the day. Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) will begin to sell the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Nexus One. (Android Community) GM is near to a sale of Saab. (Bloomberg) The US Sanate may be considering…
