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ThinkstockThe U.S. economy is still sluggish and the consumer remains cautious. Yet between Saturday, December 21, and Wednesday, January 1, almost a third of Americans plan to hit the road,...
ThinkstockInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has said in a statement that it will vigorously fight the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan by shareholder Louisiana...
ThinkstockLess than two months after scrap-metal executive Daniel Dienst was tapped to be the new chief executive officer at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (NYSE: MSO), the axe has come down...
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) share of the Chinese smartphone market rose to 12% in October, according to technology market research firm Counterpoint. That was a leap from its...
ThinkstockApp tracker App Annie reports that consumers in Japan spent about 10% more than U.S. consumers did on all apps for smartphones and tablets in October. Japan has become the world’s number...
ThinkstockThe board of directors at Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) has decided to extend the contract of CEO Michael Jeffries, and activist investor Engaged Capital LLC could not be more...
ThinkstockWhat could unite the world’s leading technology giants, including Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and...
courtesy of Starbucks Corp.Got a coffee lover on your holiday gift list? Then Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has you covered. For Cyber Week 2013, that is through December 6, Starbucks has a buy one...
ThinkstockProtests and strikes by fast-food workers are expected to spread to 100 U.S. cities Thursday. This comes a little more than a year after a strike in New York, when 200 workers walked off...
ThinkstockAs if there weren’t enough reminders for Internet users to frequently change their passwords, this week came news that more than 2 million accounts on some of the most popular social...
courtesy of Google Inc.If you are going to fill the world with the next generation of robots, as the New York Times suggests Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is preparing to do, who better to lead the...
ThinkstockThough Newsweek ceased being a printed publication last year, Editor in Chief Jim Impoco said Tuesday in an interview that the magazine plans to resume weekly publication as early as...
London-based mining giant Rio Tinto said Tuesday that it plans slash its capital expenditure budget from around $14 billion this year to $11 billion in 2014 and $8 billion in 2015.
ThinkstockGlobal financial information services company Markit has released final November Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) data. Overall, growth in economic activity was modest, aside from...
ThinkstockBurger King Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: BKW) announced Tuesday that it has inked a deal with restaurant operator Groupe Olivier Bertrand to further expand into France. Financial terms were not...