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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:59pm EST
Olivant Advisers dropped its bid for troubled British mortgage lender Northern Rock, saying its offer would not satisfy both the government and its own interests.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:59pm EST
This time, the market faces a new factor, climate change.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:49pm EST
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, is standing resolute about inflation, but he is watching the American economy closely.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:40pm EST
The company, which closed a $5.6 billion deal to buy Dow Jones & Company in December, said quarterly profit increased to $832 million, or 27 cents a share.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:39pm EST
The Sun-Times Media Group Inc., the parent company of The Chicago Sun-Times, said Monday that it was considering a sale of the company and its assets.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 10:31pm EST
Most telecommunications specialists and cable operators say that sabotage seems unlikely, but no one knows specifically how the cables were damaged or if the incidents were related.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:20pm EST
Higher earnings from oilseed processing and rising demand for feed grains offset declining margins in the company’s ethanol business.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:12pm EST
In an industry that favors start-ups, a faint stodginess clings to Microsoft and Yahoo that could impede their ability to draw top engineering talent.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:05pm EST
Some fear a less lucrative future for writers as studios turn to alternatives.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:01pm EST
The Mac may be the cooler computer, but aren’t there more PC users in the world?
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:53am EST
Google is making an unusually aggressive effort to block Microsoft’s $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:50am EST
Fourth-quarter earnings rose 42 percent from a year ago as profit margins at its U.S. stores improved despite higher commodity costs.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 11:41am EST
The company was hurt by rising costs for raw materials used in such products as its Glad plastic storage bags and Hidden Valley salad dressings.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 10:28am EST
A real estate trade group said sales of existing homes rose by the largest amount in more than five years in September.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 10:23am EST
Report cards are in, and the grades are not good: New York City private schools have given The New York Sun an F.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 9:50am EST
The health insurer got a boost from its growing government segment, a lower-than-expected income tax rate and a gain on the sale of a venture capital investment.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 8:03am EST
As other high-tech companies cut back on their research labs, Microsoft continues to increase its ranks of free-rein thinkers.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 3:43am EST
Economists say the stimulus package and other efforts to address the economic slowdown are likely to be cold comfort to incumbent politicians in November.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 3:43am EST
There is more consensus than disagreement in the parties over tax, health and Iraq proposals, though the presidential candidates do disagree over means, priorities and each other’s sincerity.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 3:19am EST
The best-known television pundits who hold politicians to account are entangled in old partisanship and past allegiances.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 3:03am EST
A serious discussion on pressing national issues may be good for the country. But it isn’t necessarily good television.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 3:00am EST
Biotechnology giant Amgen is selling the Japanese rights to some drugs to Takeda Pharmaceutical of Japan in a deal that might bring Amgen more than $1 billion.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 2:36am EST
With its endorsement of Barack Obama, Rupert Murdoch and The New York Post tack in a different direction.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 2:32am EST
Mad magazine enlists the talents of 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists for its two-page exposé, “Why George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming.”
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 2:24am EST
An assessment of some of the high and low points among this year’s Super Bowl ads.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 1:21am EST
The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week includes Monday’s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills Tuesday.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 1:19am EST
The Queensland Gas Company, an Australian producer of natural gas from coal seams, and the BG Group of Britain plan to invest about 8 billion Australian dollars ($7.2 billion) in an export project in northeastern Australia to tap rising demand for the fuel.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 1:17am EST
The British bank could face nationalization should an effort being led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government fail to find a buyer.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 1:07am EST
A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:58am EST
Diapers, wipes and formula — the basics — draw in other more lucrative purchases.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:57am EST
G.M.’s international strategy isn’t about focusing on a single brand. Instead, it wants its consumers to be able to choose from a fleet of them.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:53am EST
Sometimes media metrics and audiences have very different views of what works.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:33am EST
Name-squatting on the Internet is nothing new, but one public relations firm has found a novel use for it in promoting a nascent awards and networking program.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:31am EST
A new Web site, Japander.com, catalogs Japanese ads featuring Western actors, like Harrison Ford drinking Kirin beer or Charlize Theron selling Lux products
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:28am EST
The network’s charge for access to content over the Internet has been troubling.
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Posted: February 4th, 2008, 12:26am EST
A battle royal shaping up between Barry Diller and John C. Malone over IAC/Interactive is not about their personal differences, despite the juicy material this provides.
