Investors are betting that Finland’s Nokia (NYSE: NOK) can survive the smartphone wars, now that it’s gambled on Windows from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company.
The Grum botnet, which experts believe is responsible for about 18 percent of the world's spam email traffic, has been shut down, according to security company FireEye, based in Milpitas, Calif. According to M86Security, Grum was responsible for roughly 17.4 percent of the worldwide spam email traffic, which made it officially the third largest active botnet in the world, after Cutwail and Lethic, respectively. In January 2012, however, Grum became the No. 1 spam botnet in the world, accounti...
Large U.S. drugstore chain Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) announced Thursday it would be renewing its contract with Express Scripts Holding Co. (NASDAQ: ESRX), to provide customers of that pharmaceutical claims manager with prescription drugs at Walgreens retail stores.
Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) announced a multi-year pharmacy network agreement with Express Scripts on Thursday morning after a seven-month split.
It’s the tale of two technology cities: Thursday should see two of the sectors giants, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), the world's biggest software company, and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine report record quarterly results.
4chan is a confusing place. Its anonymous userbase is just as likely to spend time harassing people over the internet as it is arrange a killer birthday party for a 90 year-old veteran. The site's latest stunt seems like a combination of both. After a Burger King employee posted a picture of himself standing in a tub of lettuce, 4chan users tracked the employee down and had him fired.
The legendary German Nurburgring racetrack is bankrupt after pouring millions into an amusement park.
Windows 8 will be released Oct. 26, Microsoft announced at its annual sales meeting Wednesday. Customers will be able to buy an upgrade for their current OS or simply purchase a new machine with the Windows 8 operating system installed.
Nass Contracting Co., a wealthy Bahraini construction giant that was recently under fire from human rights groups, announced on Tuesday that it would permit its workers to leave the country and return home.
The company that developed the first commercially available DVR announced on Tuesday that it is purchasing TRA, Inc., a marketing and analytics company whose products help advertisers know which TV commercials are the most effective based on consumers' shopping habits.
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the No. 2 computer maker, boosted its full-year net earnings estimates to “at least” $14.40 a share from the previous estimate of $14.27.
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is making moves to expand production in India to feed a growing export market in the company's Asia Pacific and Africa region.
Baker Hughes Inc (NYSE: BHI), one of the world's largest oil services companies, is expected to report a slight decrease in profit for the second quarter on weakness in the company's North American business.
Madison Square Garden Company (Nasdaq: MSG) shares appeared unaffected Wednesday by Jeremy Lin's departure, despite considerable hype surrounding the former New York Knicks point guard's economic boost to the company's bottom line.
Odyssey Marine Exploration Incorporated (NasdaqCM: OMEX), a deep-ocean exploration company, said Wednesday it found 48 tons of silver bullion, worth some $38 million, on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean some 300 miles off the coast of Ireland.
Two months after the trading fiasco in the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, tech IPOs are heading to market again.
Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) received mixed ratings from analysts on Wednesday as Wunderlich downgraded shares of the electric car manufacturer to sell while Jefferies Group and Maxim Group reaffirmed their buy rating on the company despite reports of delayed Model S deliveries.
English soccer power Manchester United is the world's most valuable team, worth an estimated $2.23 billion, according to Forbes.
Despite warning that third-quarter revenue will be below expectations, shares of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), the No. 1 chipmaker, rose more than 3 percent in Wednesday trading.
Two months after CEO Tim Cook promised Apple would do better at plugging its leaks, Apple's product pipeline couldn't be more transparent. We have a pretty good idea of what the next iPhone will feature, and when it will launch. We also know details about the not-so-obvious products in the Apple pipeline; we know the general size of the heavily-rumored iPad Mini, and we know Apple likely has a TV in the works. What happened to the tradition of secrecy?
Bank of America's second-quarter earnings reversed a year-earlier loss and beat analyst expectations on higher mortgage income, improved credit quality and the absence of good will impairment charges.
Heating up the so-called smartphone patent war, HTC has filed two counterclaims against Apple in the Southern District of Florida, claiming that the iPhone-maker has infringed on two HP patents it acquired in December last year.
Banking on software, services and cost controls, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the No. 2 computer company, is expected to report improved second-quarter earnings despite a decline in revenue.
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), the No. 1 chipmaker, Tuesday reported decent second-quarter financials but spooked investors and Silicon Valley with the dreaded news: third-quarter sales will be worse than expected.
It seems as though the world if retail is hitting some mid-year skids, leaving market watchers wondering if they already need to write of the second-most important sales season of the year: Back to school.
Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), the No. 1 provider of Internet gear, said it had acquired private Virtuata, a two-year-old specialist in cloud computing and security.
The New York Knicks have decided that Jeremy Lin's three-year, $25 million contract offer from the Houston Rockets is too rich for them and will let the talented point guard walk, according to multiple reports.
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) booked a 11 percent drop in its second-quarter earnings as revenue from investment banking and lending businesses declined, the New York investment bank said Tuesday.
After the formal announcement Monday that Marissa Mayer had been elected the new CEO of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, the new executive announced she was pregnant.
Tata Motors Ltd. (Bombay: 500570) is looking to its UK luxury car unit, Jaguar Land Rover, to drive global sales growth particularly in emerging markets like Brazil by shifting production of the Freelander out of the UK to free up assembly line space for the popular premium model, the Range Rover Evoque.