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nationsonline.orgEuropean stocks are up today on the possibility of further monetary stimulus in China boosted investor confidence, and investors await reports that may show the U.S. economy is...
courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) announced today that it will be bringing the Nook e-reader and the associated digital bookstore to the United Kingdom this...
General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) will recall more than 249,000 midsize sport utility vehicles to correct a potential fire hazard, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In its...
Research shows that, following an initial public offering, stocks that have pleasant, easy to pronounce names outperform those with “ugly” names, says Marketwatch. Adam Alter, a professor of...
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) plans to name CEO Hubert Joly of the hospitality company Carlson as its new chief executive, according to DealBook. This announcement ends the electronics retailer’s...
In the latest in a string of multi-billion-dollar acquisitions in the U.S. health care sector, Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) has agreed to buy competitor Coventry Health Care Inc. (NYSE: CVH) for $5.7...
Taiwanese personal computer maker Acer Inc. said it swung to a net profit in the second quarter, despite weak demand and stiff competition from tablet makers such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Acer...
It was revealed on Thursday that the Indiana Electrical Workers Pension Trust Fund IBEW has sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT). The Indiana union pension fund owns shares in Walmart and wants...
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has announced that it will acquire Texas Memory Systems, a privately held company that focuses on high-performance Flash storage. IBM said the...
Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) were up 5% in afterhours trading on Wednesday following the network equipment giant’s better-than-expected results and its announced plan to hike the...
After years of trying to infiltrate the living room, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may be about to take its most ambitious crack at it yet, reports the Wall Street Journal. Apple is talking with Time...
Not much of a surprise, but Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was again the leader in the U.S. search market in July by a wide margin, according to comScore’s latest monthly analysis of the U.S. search...
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is testing an advertising service that allows companies to place more promotional messages in the News Feeds of users, even if those members or their friends have not...
The Office for National Statistics, the United Kingdom’s largest independent producer of official statistics, reported Wednesday that the unemployment rate in the U.K. fell to 8% in the three...
Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) tumbled in premarket trading after posting disappointing second-quarter results and lowering its full-year guidance. The retailer reported quarterly earnings of $120.4...