The storm season has begun. The National Weather Service reports that activity may be higher than normal. The first storm out of the gate is Alberto.
China manufacturing picked up in August, shaking off a slow period that began more than a year ago. The China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing said its purchasing managers index rose to 51.7 from...
Data from Reuters shows that global M&A activity rose to $2.2 trillion in 2010. The 2010 improvement was the first since 2007.  Most comments about the news said that 2011 should be an even better...
Gap (NYSE: GPS), founded in 1969 as a the Woodstock generation left Woodstock for home as the company likes to say, has succumbed to customer pressure to keep its old logo. The clothing company said...
A new research report from McKinsey & Co. notes "ominous" parallels between Asian economies just prior to the financial crisis of 1997 and to those economies today.
Source: courtesy of Google Inc.For investors who believed that Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares would be held down because it has only one source of revenue, it is time to adjust expectations....
Logitech International SA (NASDAQ: LOGI) is back in favor with some new products coming to market.  Today’s newest launch, a wireless solar-powered keyboard, will seem like a no-brainer for the...
The HSBC measure of China’s PMI for June showed that the nation’s manufacturing sector slowed again, and may be in for a period of deep trouble.The drop in the index created a string of eight...
Source: courtesy of SamsungThree pieces of information about the continued rise of smartphones reached the market, almost at the same time. Samsung announced record profits, much of which came from...
Moody’s cut the sovereign paper of Portugal from A3 to A1 with a negative outlook. The reasons were too few. They included  a fear that the economy and productivity will not grow fast enough,...
Local.com (NASDAQ:LOCM) posted revenues of $5.1 million, up 51% year over year and over 4% sequentially.  The loss was $3.15 million or -$0.34 dilued and basic EPS.  Consensus estimates...
Source: courtesy of Yahoo!Much of the media, and some analysts who follow Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), have become wildly excited about the new design of the portal company’s logo. As if it...
By staff reporter Yu Hairong of Caixin OnlineChina is expected to post its first monthly trade deficit in six years, adding another twist to debates over the yuan’s value.Read more… Take This...
Local.com (NASDAQ:LOCM) is seeing its shares surge some 15% pre-market after it signed a new pact today.  It has entered a strategic partnership with Barry Diller’s IAC/Interactive...
Local.com (LOCM) received a couple of patents that would appear to be pretty valuable. The first patent number 7,231,405 is for the process of indexing and retrieving web-related information by...