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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:58pm EST
Another lesson in two may not be greater than one.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:53pm EST
Plug and play — a popular concept that allows buyers of computers and electronic games to avoid frustrating assembly — is proving hard to pull off for Boeing.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:51pm EST
Federal prosecutors plan to introduce into evidence at least 29 recorded phone calls in the trial of retired General Re executives.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:48pm EST
Brocade Communications Systems’ former chief executive received a 21-month prison sentence for designing a plan to tamper with the firm’s records of stock option grants.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:22pm EST
Apple holds its annual Macworld Expo and it’s chock-full of new high-tech goodies to be tried out.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:19pm EST
Oracle has finally won its prize, the rival BEA Systems, after sweetening the offer by 14 percent, just three months after BEA rejected its original bid.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:19pm EST
The Charles Schwab Corporation, the retail brokerage firm, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit fell 34 percent from the period a year ago, which included a tax gain and earnings from its U.S. Trust wealth management unit, which has since been sold.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:19pm EST
European regulators raided some of the continent’s biggest drug makers in an inquiry over whether patent disputes and lawsuits are keeping generic products off the market.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:19pm EST
AMR, the parent of American Airlines, posted a smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday, but the results showed the industry’s continuing vulnerability to high fuel costs.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:17pm EST
Ireland’s relatively new emphasis on entrepreneurs is the culmination of four decades of policies that have lifted the economy from centuries of poverty to modern prosperity.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:16pm EST
Priscilla Painton, most recently the deputy managing editor of Time Magazine, has been named editor in chief of Simon & Schuster’s adult trade imprint.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:16pm EST
Michael A. Callen will succeed Robert J. Genader as chief executive of the Ambac Financial Group, after the bond insurer cut its dividend 67 percent.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:15pm EST
Mortgage troubles are spreading to credit cards and auto loans.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:15pm EST
Under a draft of the law, Volkswagen could make major changes only with approval of shareholders representing one share more than 80 percent of its share capital.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:11pm EST
Asian shares fell as subprime loan problems in the United States and soft economic data provoked international fear.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:11pm EST
The Federal-Mogul Corporation, the auto parts supplier that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month, named the billionaire investor and shareholder Carl C. Icahn as nonexecutive chairman on Wednesday.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 10:54pm EST
Banks won’t lend money. Oil has reached $100 a barrel. Unemployment is up. What’s a Fed chief to do?
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 10:42pm EST
The president of Canada’s nuclear industry regulator, embroiled in a dispute with the government over the closing and later reopening of a reactor, was fired.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 9:59pm EST
Wall Street staggered through another volatile session Wednesday, giving up gains of a modest rally in the last minutes of trading.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 7:35pm EST
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said fourth-quarter profit fell almost 17 percent as higher costs more than offset the effect of a rise in shipments.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:05am EST
Reporting a fourth-quarter loss of $9.83 billion, Citigroup also issued a forecast that the economy had not yet bottomed out.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:55am EST
A cartoon classic from the 1960’s gets a makeover to suit the tastes of 21st-Century kids.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:52am EST
While the vehicles have yet to go on sale in the United States, they stole some thunder from the Big Three at the Detroit Auto Show.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:51am EST
Despite the F.D.A. endorsement, the Agriculture Department has asked farmers to continue withholding clones from the food supply.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:46am EST
The sales of more than a million acres of timberland in Northern Michigan have caused many people to worry about their jobs and their ability to hunt and fish.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:44am EST
Michael B. Smuck was one of the leading real estate syndicators in New Orleans in the 1980s until his limited partnerships began unraveling, causing large losses and unleashing years of legal battles with unhappy investors.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:41am EST
Women who own small businesses have been pushing for years for a bigger piece of government contracts. And few are happy with the new rules created by the Small Business Administration.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:36am EST
Steven P. Jobs is rebooting Apple’s digital movie effort and putting the company squarely in the middle of an intensifying industry battle.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:35am EST
Apple’s Steven P. Jobs introduced an elegant new MacBook, and is betting he can mimic his digital music success with movies.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:31am EST
The scandal involving Volkswagen’s former chief executive involves charges of bribery and illicit sex.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:29am EST
Long a symbol of power for American car companies, the V-8 engine is sputtering as Detroit’s Big Three promote smaller engines and alternative-fuel vehicles.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:42am EST
In its most important securities fraud ruling in years, the Supreme Court placed a huge obstacle before shareholders looking to sue someone after a stock purchase turns sour.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:35am EST
While the economic weakness has been concentrated in the financial services, home building and related sectors, investors are growing fearful that it is spreading.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:35am EST
Citing the N.A.A.C.P.’s dedication to social change, the guild agreed to make an exception for the February awards show.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:31am EST
The bank’s net income slid to $942 million, or 53 cents a share, from $1.19 billion, or 66 cents a share, in the period a year ago.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:30am EST
Becky Saletan, publisher of the trade division of Harcourt, has been named publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Trade Books.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:28am EST
The nation’s retailers wrapped up the weakest sales year since 2002, according to a gloomy report that fanned fears of a recession.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:25am EST
The mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp said that it would cut its work force by 24 percent.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:21am EST
Pay-O-Matic is the subject of a takeover by Founders Equity, a private equity firm in New York, in a deal estimated at more than $500 million.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:11am EST
The company is expected to announce another delay in production of its popular 787 Dreamliner, which could frustrate some international airlines’ expansion plans.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:08am EST
The chip maker reported revenue of $10.71 billion, up 10.5 percent from the quarter a year earlier, but about $100 million short of analysts’ forecasts.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:05am EST
The cheap-chic designer is leaving the retailer for a more ambitious, and lucrative, role of making over the struggling Liz Claiborne label.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:05am EST
The banking giant said it was scaling back its investment banking operations and shedding an additional 650 jobs.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:04am EST
The details of the economic slump have changed since the ’92 presidential race, but the main story line remains much the same.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:01am EST
First, hard-pressed Wall Street banks turned to rich foreign governments for help. Now, they are seeking aid from the likes of New Jersey and big mutual funds.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:00am EST
Doling out credit, but with an eye on the balance sheet.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:54am EST
The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:51am EST
The economy needs stimulating — on that much, at least, Congressional Democrats agree. But from there, things get complicated.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:39am EST
Saudi Arabia’s oil minister appeared to rebuff the president’s appeal to consider the cost to the U.S. economy.
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Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:05am EST
Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications said on Tuesday that they would jointly create OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, a cable television channel to make its debut in 2009.
