Global companies from NEC Corp. to PepsiCo Inc. and AstraZeneca Plc are chopping jobs more than three times faster than in 2011 as they brace for recession in Europe and a slowdown in China.
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Business Week)
Google's $12.5 billion bid to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approvals from U.S. and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in i
Monday, February 13, 2012
(CBC)
Philadelphia’s gas utility, the largest municipally owned system in the U.S., should be sold to reduce the city’s financial risk, according to a consultant.
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Business Week)
California plans to sell about $2 billion of general-obligation bonds on March 1, the largest offering in four months by the most indebted U.S. state, a spokesman for Treasurer Bill Lockyer said.
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Business Week)
Armored anti-riot vehicles cluster outside the police station in Awwamiya in Saudi Arabia’s oil- producing eastern region, where unrest is turning violent.
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Business Week)
Garth Wong, president and CEO of Oilsands Quest, is hopeful Saskatchewan’s oil sands will get a second chance
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Financial Post)
Republicans labeled President Obama's proposed budget a 'political document' but the liberal blueprint is what the White House plans to use in its re-election fight, Joshua Green writes
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Business Week)
Officials in northern China seized 45 iPads in response to a complaint that Apple's tablet infringes a trademark owned by Proview International Holdings
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Business Week)
The green groups were planning to flood Capitol Hill with more than a half-million emails urging senators to oppose efforts to revive Keystone XL
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Financial Post)
Achieving such a distinction looks increasingly plausible given Apple’s meteoric rise in market capitalization over the past decade
Monday, February 13, 2012
(Financial Post)