Intel's Hardball Sales Tactics Detailed by EU
The European Union on Monday published e-mail excerpts from computer makers and Intel Corp. to show that Intel pressured chip buyers into choosing Intel over ...
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Rick Niu Promoted to CMO for ING's US Retirement Services
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China's Exports, Trade Surplus Fell in August
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Japan's growth in the second quarter was weaker than initially thought, but government figures still show that the world's second largest economy has managed to ...
GM Kicks Off Aggressive Money-Back Campaign
General Motors kicks off a marketing campaign next week pitched by its new chairman and featuring a money-back guarantee — unsatisfied car buyers can get ...
Chinese Gov't to Help Finish Revel's Atlantic City Casino
Revel Entertainment has turned to the Chinese government for help finishing its lavish Atlantic City casino. China State Construction Engineering Corp., the construction arm of ...
Trade, Jobless Data Support Recovery Optimism
The U.S. trade deficit in July hit the highest level in six months as a record rise in imports outpaced a third straight increase in ...
Airlines Cut Flights to Lowest Level Since 2001
The U.S. airline industry is shrinking to a size not seen since the months after the 2001 terror attacks. The airlines have been trimming flights ...
China Could Be $1 Tril. Green Tech Market
China potentially could be a $500 billion to $1 trillion a year market for environmentally sustainable "green technologies," a group of businesses and experts said ...
Japanese Machinery Orders Fell 9.3%
Japanese machinery orders, a closely watched indicator of corporate capital spending, fell back in July after rising the previous month, the government said Thursday, suggesting ...
Asia, Europe Rise on Fed Optimism
European and Asian stocks rose Thursday and Wall Street was expected to gain at the open after a Federal Reserve report boosted hopes the U.S. ...
Cal High Court Lets Stand Starbucks Award Reversal
The California Supreme Court will not review a appeals court ruling that wiped out an $86 million judgment against coffee giant Starbucks over tip sharing ...
Rhapsody Streaming Music App Okayed for iPhones
RealNetworks Inc.'s subscription music service Rhapsody has been approved for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, the first time Apple Inc. has allowed an on-demand ...
Fed Survey Shows U.S. Recession Ended
The recession is ending and the economy is finally growing again. That's the message implicit in the Federal Reserve's latest survey of businesses around the ...
Small Businesses Becoming More Optimistic
Small business owners are joining consumers and investors in showing some cautious optimism about the economy. An index that measures owners' optimism rose last month, ...
China's Beijing Auto Joins in Saab Takeover Bid
China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings has struck a preliminary deal to become a minority stakeholder in Koenigsegg Group AB's takeover of Saab Automobile from General ...
New Electrics Grab Focus at Frankfurt Auto Show
Sales have plunged, General Motors Co. has emerged from bankruptcy and Chrysler has been taken over by Italy's Fiat. The past year's turbulence will be ...
World Markets Surge on End to U.S. Recession
World stock markets rallied Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. recession was likely over, a view largely supported by recent economic ...
Financial Reform Push Gives Way to Inertia, Complacency
The rule book for Wall Street may not change that much after all. Tougher financial rules that seemed inevitable after last year's crisis have been ...
Cablevision Debuts Interactive Ads on TV
Cablevision Systems Corp. is bringing interactive banner ads to television, allowing viewers to order samples and brochures and even purchase products by clicking the remote ...
IRS Eases Commercial Mortgage Refinancing Rules
The IRS issued new rules Tuesday designed to make it easier to refinance some commercial real estate loans in an effort to curb the number ...
Shane Kim to Retire from 14-Year Post As Xbox Guru
Shane Kim, the Microsoft Corp. executive who oversaw the growth of its video game business from the original Xbox and through such hits as "Halo" ...
Retail, Manufacturing Data Boost Wall Street
Investors waded deeper into the stock market Tuesday as a batch of economic reports provided mostly upbeat signals about the economy. Retail sales jumped in ...
Japan Air Lines Hopes to Conclude Merger Talks Soon
Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. said Tuesday it aims to conclude tie-up talks with foreign carriers by mid-October and announced plans to slash 14 percent of ...
August Retail Sales Up Mainly on Auto, Gas
Consumers bought hundreds of thousands of cars in August due mainly to the government's popular Cash for Clunkers program, but economists expect Americans didn't boost ...
Citi Plans $5 Bil. Stock Offering to Cut Fed Holdings
Citigroup is considering a plan in which the Treasury Department would sell part of its holdings in the bank, while the New York-based company would ...
World Stocks Fall on Jitters Over Possible Stimulus Cuts
World stock markets fell Thursday amid a big drop in oil prices and as investors worried that support measures for the fragile global economy will ...
Yahoo Gains $150 Mil. on Sale of Alibaba Stake
Yahoo has cashed out of its investment in China's leading e-commerce site, Alibaba.com. The sale announced Monday is expected to generate a pretax windfall of ...
JAL Shares Surge on American, Delta Interest
Shares of Japan Airlines Corp. surged Monday amid speculation that American Airlines and Delta Air Lines are vying to buy stakes in the money-losing carrier. ...
NEC, Casio, Hitachi to Merge Cell Phone Business
Japanese electronics makers NEC Corp., Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi said Monday they will combine their mobile phone handset-manufacturing operations by April next year in ...
Majority of Americans Still Troubled by Economy
One year after Wall Street teetered on the brink of collapse, seven out of 10 Americans lack confidence the federal government has taken safeguards to ...
World Markets Rattled by U.S.-China Tire Tariff Dispute
European and Asian markets fell Monday, shaken by news of a trade dispute between the U.S. and China over tariffs on tires. Germany's DAX fell ...
U.S. Banks Return to Risky Investments
A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and ...
Last U.S. China Maker Survives on Vintage Design
Born of the Great Depression, it was a glossy, color-saturated line of cups, bowls and plates meant to affordably brighten lives and dinner tables. Seven ...
American, Delta Mull Stake in JAL
American Airlines parent AMR Corp. is negotiating for closer ties and possibly an investment in financially troubled Japan Airlines Corp., according to a person familiar ...
Toyota Recall Addresses Potential Floor-Mat Problem
Toyota Motor Corp. officially recalled 3.8 million vehicles in the United States on Monday to address problems with floor mats that could cause the gas ...
Gold Hits New Record High on Falling Dollar
Gold prices surged to a new high Tuesday as investors sought a safe harbor from a falling dollar and inflation. Gold for December delivery rose ...
Next Boom Likely to Be Powered by Cleantech
Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that ...
Stocks Rise, Dollar Sinks on Aussie Interest-Rate Hike
The dollar tumbled Tuesday, hitting a 14-month low against the Australian currency and circling year lows against the euro, after an interest rate increase from ...
Samsung to Report Record Profits for Q3
Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that profit likely surged in the third quarter on higher sales, amid a brightening outlook for the world's largest manufacturer ...
Bailed Out Dairy Industry Must Restructure: Ag Sect'y
The struggling U.S. dairy industry must be restructured to avoid cycles of boom and bust, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday, less than a week ...
3-D TVs Shown at Japan Electronics Show
Japan's big name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3D for launch next year. At the ...
Toyota Previews All-Electric, Green Sports Car
Besides showing off its well-known hybrids, Toyota will take a slightly different tack at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show to display a green sportscar with ...
FTC Regulates Online Reviews, Blogs, Testimonials
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time ...
Las Vegas CityCenter Slashes Condo Prices
Developers of the $8.5 billion CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip plan a 30 percent price cut on condos there that people have already agreed ...
Intel's Hardball Sales Tactics Detailed by EU
The European Union on Monday published e-mail excerpts from computer makers and Intel Corp. to show that Intel pressured chip buyers into choosing Intel over ...
Emmies Show Acknowledges Decline of TV
A year after its least-watched telecast ever, the Emmy Awards plaintively acknowledged TV's changing role in the Internet age, bringing a collective sense of reckoning ...
Rick Niu Promoted to CMO for ING's US Retirement Services
Rick Niu, who has been heading up ING's multicultural growth strategy and execution in the U.S., was promoted to chief marketing officer for ING U.S. ...
Struggling JAL Considers Tieup with Air France-KLM
Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. has entered talks with Air France-KLM over a capital tie-up, a newspaper said Saturday. Asia's biggest airline hopes to expand its ...
GM Rescinds Spring's White-Collar Pay Cuts
General Motors Co. has rescinded white-collar pay cuts it made last spring as it desperately tried to conserve cash and avoid filing for bankruptcy protection. ...
World Stocks Rise on Good News from China, U.S.
European and Asian stock markets rose Friday on strong economic data from China and comments by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who said the financial ...
China Output, Consumer Spending Surged in August
China's recovery gained momentum in August as stimulus spending helped boost industrial output, investment and retail sales in the world's third-largest economy, offsetting a slump ...
China's Exports, Trade Surplus Fell in August
China's exports languished in August, contracting 23 percent, increasing the onus on Beijing's massive stimulus spending to drive an economic recovery. Customs data released Friday ...
Japan's Q2 Growth Was Weaker Than Estimated
Japan's growth in the second quarter was weaker than initially thought, but government figures still show that the world's second largest economy has managed to ...
GM Kicks Off Aggressive Money-Back Campaign
General Motors kicks off a marketing campaign next week pitched by its new chairman and featuring a money-back guarantee — unsatisfied car buyers can get ...
Chinese Gov't to Help Finish Revel's Atlantic City Casino
Revel Entertainment has turned to the Chinese government for help finishing its lavish Atlantic City casino. China State Construction Engineering Corp., the construction arm of ...
Trade, Jobless Data Support Recovery Optimism
The U.S. trade deficit in July hit the highest level in six months as a record rise in imports outpaced a third straight increase in ...
Airlines Cut Flights to Lowest Level Since 2001
The U.S. airline industry is shrinking to a size not seen since the months after the 2001 terror attacks. The airlines have been trimming flights ...
China Could Be $1 Tril. Green Tech Market
China potentially could be a $500 billion to $1 trillion a year market for environmentally sustainable "green technologies," a group of businesses and experts said ...
Japanese Machinery Orders Fell 9.3%
Japanese machinery orders, a closely watched indicator of corporate capital spending, fell back in July after rising the previous month, the government said Thursday, suggesting ...
Asia, Europe Rise on Fed Optimism
European and Asian stocks rose Thursday and Wall Street was expected to gain at the open after a Federal Reserve report boosted hopes the U.S. ...
Cal High Court Lets Stand Starbucks Award Reversal
The California Supreme Court will not review a appeals court ruling that wiped out an $86 million judgment against coffee giant Starbucks over tip sharing ...
Rhapsody Streaming Music App Okayed for iPhones
RealNetworks Inc.'s subscription music service Rhapsody has been approved for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, the first time Apple Inc. has allowed an on-demand ...
Fed Survey Shows U.S. Recession Ended
The recession is ending and the economy is finally growing again. That's the message implicit in the Federal Reserve's latest survey of businesses around the ...
Small Businesses Becoming More Optimistic
Small business owners are joining consumers and investors in showing some cautious optimism about the economy. An index that measures owners' optimism rose last month, ...
China's Beijing Auto Joins in Saab Takeover Bid
China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings has struck a preliminary deal to become a minority stakeholder in Koenigsegg Group AB's takeover of Saab Automobile from General ...
New Electrics Grab Focus at Frankfurt Auto Show
Sales have plunged, General Motors Co. has emerged from bankruptcy and Chrysler has been taken over by Italy's Fiat. The past year's turbulence will be ...
World Markets Surge on End to U.S. Recession
World stock markets rallied Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. recession was likely over, a view largely supported by recent economic ...
Financial Reform Push Gives Way to Inertia, Complacency
The rule book for Wall Street may not change that much after all. Tougher financial rules that seemed inevitable after last year's crisis have been ...
Cablevision Debuts Interactive Ads on TV
Cablevision Systems Corp. is bringing interactive banner ads to television, allowing viewers to order samples and brochures and even purchase products by clicking the remote ...
IRS Eases Commercial Mortgage Refinancing Rules
The IRS issued new rules Tuesday designed to make it easier to refinance some commercial real estate loans in an effort to curb the number ...
Shane Kim to Retire from 14-Year Post As Xbox Guru
Shane Kim, the Microsoft Corp. executive who oversaw the growth of its video game business from the original Xbox and through such hits as "Halo" ...
Retail, Manufacturing Data Boost Wall Street
Investors waded deeper into the stock market Tuesday as a batch of economic reports provided mostly upbeat signals about the economy. Retail sales jumped in ...
Japan Air Lines Hopes to Conclude Merger Talks Soon
Struggling Japan Airlines Corp. said Tuesday it aims to conclude tie-up talks with foreign carriers by mid-October and announced plans to slash 14 percent of ...
August Retail Sales Up Mainly on Auto, Gas
Consumers bought hundreds of thousands of cars in August due mainly to the government's popular Cash for Clunkers program, but economists expect Americans didn't boost ...
Citi Plans $5 Bil. Stock Offering to Cut Fed Holdings
Citigroup is considering a plan in which the Treasury Department would sell part of its holdings in the bank, while the New York-based company would ...
World Stocks Fall on Jitters Over Possible Stimulus Cuts
World stock markets fell Thursday amid a big drop in oil prices and as investors worried that support measures for the fragile global economy will ...
Yahoo Gains $150 Mil. on Sale of Alibaba Stake
Yahoo has cashed out of its investment in China's leading e-commerce site, Alibaba.com. The sale announced Monday is expected to generate a pretax windfall of ...
JAL Shares Surge on American, Delta Interest
Shares of Japan Airlines Corp. surged Monday amid speculation that American Airlines and Delta Air Lines are vying to buy stakes in the money-losing carrier. ...
NEC, Casio, Hitachi to Merge Cell Phone Business
Japanese electronics makers NEC Corp., Casio Computer Co. and Hitachi said Monday they will combine their mobile phone handset-manufacturing operations by April next year in ...
Majority of Americans Still Troubled by Economy
One year after Wall Street teetered on the brink of collapse, seven out of 10 Americans lack confidence the federal government has taken safeguards to ...
World Markets Rattled by U.S.-China Tire Tariff Dispute
European and Asian markets fell Monday, shaken by news of a trade dispute between the U.S. and China over tariffs on tires. Germany's DAX fell ...
U.S. Banks Return to Risky Investments
A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and ...
Last U.S. China Maker Survives on Vintage Design
Born of the Great Depression, it was a glossy, color-saturated line of cups, bowls and plates meant to affordably brighten lives and dinner tables. Seven ...
American, Delta Mull Stake in JAL
American Airlines parent AMR Corp. is negotiating for closer ties and possibly an investment in financially troubled Japan Airlines Corp., according to a person familiar ...
Toyota Recall Addresses Potential Floor-Mat Problem
Toyota Motor Corp. officially recalled 3.8 million vehicles in the United States on Monday to address problems with floor mats that could cause the gas ...
Gold Hits New Record High on Falling Dollar
Gold prices surged to a new high Tuesday as investors sought a safe harbor from a falling dollar and inflation. Gold for December delivery rose ...
Next Boom Likely to Be Powered by Cleantech
Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet — the kind of breakthrough that ...
Stocks Rise, Dollar Sinks on Aussie Interest-Rate Hike
The dollar tumbled Tuesday, hitting a 14-month low against the Australian currency and circling year lows against the euro, after an interest rate increase from ...
Samsung to Report Record Profits for Q3
Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that profit likely surged in the third quarter on higher sales, amid a brightening outlook for the world's largest manufacturer ...
Bailed Out Dairy Industry Must Restructure: Ag Sect'y
The struggling U.S. dairy industry must be restructured to avoid cycles of boom and bust, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday, less than a week ...
3-D TVs Shown at Japan Electronics Show
Japan's big name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3D for launch next year. At the ...
Toyota Previews All-Electric, Green Sports Car
Besides showing off its well-known hybrids, Toyota will take a slightly different tack at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show to display a green sportscar with ...
FTC Regulates Online Reviews, Blogs, Testimonials
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time ...
Las Vegas CityCenter Slashes Condo Prices
Developers of the $8.5 billion CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip plan a 30 percent price cut on condos there that people have already agreed ...
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