Banks will have to refinance an estimated $787 billion in floating-rate notes by the end of 2009. They need money to refinance. Guess one place they'll go to get it?
Google's latest product called Knol, a Wikipedia-like resource, is rekindling concerns among some media companies that Google is increasingly becoming a competitor. They foresee Google becoming a...
The UAWs officers approved the GM contract and now. It has a little something for both sites but the question is whether it has enough to save GM and American companies from the foreign onslaught....
Wharton management professor Larry Hrebiniak and Joseph Turow, professor of communication at the Annenberg School weigh in on News Corp's bid for Dow Jones. They think it makes sense because Dow...
It really has gotten out of hand -- many receive hundreds of emails a day. It is so bad that many are hitting the delete without even pausing to wonder if a particular email just might be...
While Vonage is still limping along, the number two internet phone company just closed its doors -- literally over night. Land lines and cells have taken this over, making internet a poor cousin...
China is Coca-Cola's fourth largest market. In the last five years, they have pretty much doubled their sales there. Just imagine what their sales will look like in another five years. To get a...
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Near the end of March 2007, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty outlined a 2007 federal budget proposing a variety of tax changes that could have major implications, both good and bad, for...
Clarence Barron started Dow Jones in the basement of a candy store. At the time, people scoffed that business news would be read and would have any real value.
The musical chairs continue at Fidelity and the latest to get caught without a chair is Ellyn McColgan. The media seem to think Ned Johnson is letting go of his key people, but I think Ned knows...
Marketwatch reports that Countrywide is looking for more investors a-la Bank of America. The company is also letting go of between 10-15,000 employees. Clearly the company isn't out of the woods...
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