When a fortified city declined to submit to Mongol rule, Genghis Khan would lay siege and slaughter all the residents.
The U.S. Air Force by far maintains the most expensive fleet of aircraft on the planet. The B-2 Spirit is chief among these with a price tag of more than $2 billion per plane. However, the U.S....
Unemployment may be improving or getting less bad, but the same is not true for credit and borrowing by consumers if the June trends continue.   The consumer credit report for June has just come...
Yesterday Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) filed a report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that the company’s total US payments volume fell by -3% and that US debit card payment volume...
"To be frank," writes Ben Thompson, "Apple is an abusive monopoly in terms of iOS apps."
Source: ThinkstockA jury in Florida has reportedly awarded ParkerVision Inc. (NASDAQ: PRKR) $173 million in its patent infringement suit against Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM). ParkerVision had hoped...
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) and Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) should both be trading higher this morning if you were only looking at the earnings reports from Wednesday.  Both credit card processing...
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) has posted very pleasing earnings, one of the few bits of good news in the financial sector.  The credit card processing giant earned $0.78 EPS on an adjusted basis, beating...
The large private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis approached French entertainment and telecom company Vivendi with a proposal to take it private. The number on the table was over $50 billion. The deal...
A problem with the 2017 and 2018 model year Honda CR-V SUVs results in gasoline leaking into the engine's oil. The company has not yet issued a recall that could involve more than 500,000 vehicles...
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) just joined the ranks of companies hiking their annualized dividend  payments.  This is the second annual hike in a row.  The increase was bumped up by 20% to $0.15 from $0.125...
Apple is reopening stores globally, its products and services haven’t lost any popularity in the pandemic, and it’s sitting on a huge pile of cash.
Analysts at Cowen & Co are throwing in the towel on the recent high-flying credit card processors MasterCard (MA) and Visa (V), downgrading both from outperform to underperform, citing...
Visa was founded in 1958Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesIn 1958, Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) launched Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), the first consumer credit card program in the U.S. While...
California Micro Devices Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMD) surged over 53.11% to a yearly high of $4.67 after the chipmaker agreed to be bought out by ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN) for $4.70 a share. Visa...