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BUSINESS / NEWS Thu May 1, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The telecom equipment maker has been hurt by a weak dollar and a lack of competitiveness in wireless. But the outlook for the sector overall is stronger In an industry buffeted by slowdown, Alcatel-Lucent may be taking more than its share of lumps... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 1:42am neoform

Bloomberg -- Ronco Corp., maker of the Veg-O-Matic vegetable slicer and the Pocket Fisherman, filed for bankruptcy two years after founder and television pitchman Ron Popeil sold the iconic company for $56 million. Ronco, which marketed products as perfect for ``gr.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 8:04am neoform

Bloomberg -- Microsoft Corp.'s plan to buy AQuantive Inc. for $6 billion increases the likelihood that the software maker will also buy Yahoo! Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Anthony Noto said today. Yahoo would plug a ``strategic hole'' at Microsoft that is.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 4:39am neoform

ABC News -- The president of pet food maker Menu Foods, which last week issued a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of pet food after a rash of animal sickness and death, said today that the company would reimburse pet owners who can trace their pets' illnesses to.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

USA Today -- Hershey (HSY) is cutting 1,500 jobs over three years as part of a plan to scale back production and move some manufacturing to Mexico, the candy maker announced Thursday. When the plan is complete, Hershey's will make its chocolates and other candies a.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Mon Jan 8, 2007 @ 9:29am mrmdc

BBC News -- The biggest surprise at this year's Detroit motor show has been the Damascene conversion of General Motors (GM), the world's biggest car company, to green alternative fuels... Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BusinessWeek -- With mobile-phone losses at $418 million, sales down 39%, and competition expected to peak, the handset maker needs new products to recover Well, maybe it's not worth $20 a share. Or at least that was the apparent takeaway from Motorola's (MOT) late.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The troubled cell-phone maker agrees to back two board nominations from activist investor Carl Icahn When Motorola CEO Greg Brown agreed on Apr. 7 to back two of Carl Icahn's nominations to the company's board of directors, it was an admission of defea.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Feb 29, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The computer maker misses analysts' expectations and blames turnaround costs and "conservative" consumer spending Any hope that Dell (DELL) might be shielded from the U.S. economic slump was largely dashed on Feb. 28 after the computer maker reported f.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The BlackBerry maker is enrolling subscribers at an accelerating rate, but are service outages a sign Research In Motion is growing too fast? If you were among those expecting the economic downturn and post-holiday blahs to punish BlackBerry maker Rese.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- The first recall was bad enough: A million-plus "Thomas & Friends" toys pulled because of lead paint. The second was surreal: The maker of the smiley-faced trains sent customers "bonus gifts" so they'd stay loyal — and now some of those toys have been r.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Sat Aug 25, 2007 @ 7:24pm neoform

New York Times -- A Chinese technology company has expressed interest in buying a maker of computer disk drives in the United States, raising concerns among American government officials about the risks to national security in transferring high technology to China. The.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 11:36pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Why the sports apparel maker is one of the biggest shorts on the Street It's no wonder Under Armour (UA) is nicknamed "the next Nike (NKE)." Since going public in November, 2005, the sports apparel maker has captured the hearts (and dollars) of consume.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 9:28am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The panel maker's smaller than expected loss may end a profit-destroying run of falling liquid crystal display prices and overcapacity Rarely is a quarterly loss by a major industry player interpreted as fabulous news. But these days in the boom-and-bu.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 12:45am neoform

BusinessWeek -- As the maker of CRM software expands into new areas, it risks rankling rivals small and big alike Sooner or later every software company succumbs to the law of gravity that pulls down its pace of growth as it swells in size. Case in point: Revenue at S.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:16pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- SAN FRANCISCO — Business software maker Oracle Corp. posted quarterly profit and revenue Tuesday that topped Wall Street forecasts on strong sales of new software. The results eased investor concerns that big companies were tightening technology spen.. Read More