California State Senator Leland Yee says the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the law he authored calling for a ban of sales of violent video games to minors “put the interests of Corporate America” first.
Some companies will win, some companies will lose as growth slows in the American economy and inflation rises. Here's a list of five winners, and five losers.
Best Buy to use cash hordes no longer needed to repurchase $5 billion in stock. The company increases its quarterly dividend 7%. Best Buy will reduce square footage in its big box stores over the next five years.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling places new limits nationwide on class-action suits. Companies facing similar suits to benefit from the ruling include Cigna Corp., Goldman Sachs Inc., Bayer AG, Deere Co., and Costco Wholesale Corp. The case one of the most important for U.S. businesses in a decade.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is relieved after the US Supreme Court blocked a gigantic class action lawsuit against the retailer from being certified.
The Supreme Court today rejected a class action lawsuit alleging systematic discrimination against women in Wal-Mart's hiring and promotion practices, potentially reshaping standards for class action lawsuits.
A canceled NASA Mars project is the base for today’s Bloom Box, a device that can take the chemical energy contained within molecules and convert it directly into electricity through a chemical reaction.
Following the 2011 WWDC, Apple-lovers will have another reason to be excited over as multinational retailer; Wal-Mart has offered a staggering discount of $52 discount over the regular price on the 16 GB iPhone 4.
Tuesday's Senate vote to reduce the fees banks levy on individual debit card transactions represents a significant defeat for the financial industry and its formidable lobbying machine.
It is good times ahead for medical marijuana business in the US. Authorities are loosening the legal noose around marijuana growing in Arizona, Detroit, and Los Angeles which will see super stores selling weed for relieving illnesses. As it turns out the ‘Wal-Mart of Weed’ or ‘Home DePot’ opened in Arizona on Wednesday in a 21,000-square-foot store. The store promoted by weGrow will sell around 2,000 products, including soil, grow lights and irrigation trays, designed for easy growing of mariju...
Wall Street investment guru and editor of GameChangers Hilary Kramer has put together a list of 12 stocks which she advised investors to sell immediately. While the names that appeared on the list are big ticket stocks, Kramer justifies her position, saying that investors usually make the mistake of holding on to what used to be hot previously. She says, for example, retail stocks were 'yesterday’s market leaders.'
RIM. has come out in defense of its Playbook, saying the tablet has sold better than expected.
Apple is the number one brand in the world according to a report; Facebook is in the top 100 for the first time.
According to a Gallup poll, over half of Americans belief that US economy is in Recession or Depression. More and more people are even preparing themselves and their families to become independent from the system, in order to survive a coming economic collapse, where the distribution of food and energy will break down.
4G smartphones will get hotter with the release of Samsung Infuse and HTC Sensation
American Pharmacies, a member-owned independent pharmacy cooperative based in Texas, is taking on Humana and Walmart via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for discriminating against some pharmacies in Humana’s new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan (PDP).
YouTube is preparing a video rental service according to one report.
A new report from the FTC says certain electronics manufacturers aren't doing as good a job preventing kids from buying R-rated content.
Price cuts from multiple vendors may signal that a successor to the Wii is around the corner.
The Supreme Court hears the Microsoft v. i4i patent case today, and a ruling for Microsoft could alter decades of patent law.
Investors retreated from stocks, oil and other risky assets as a worsening nuclear situation in Japan and a lackluster start to the U.S.'s corporate earnings season cast doubt over the global economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 117.53 points, or 0.95%, to 12263.58, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 10.30 points, or 0.78%, at 1314.16, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 26.72 points, or 0.96%, to 2744.79.
Asian shares fell Tuesday on selling prompted by Japan declaring its nuclear crisis a match for the Chernobyl disaster in severity and after the International Monetary Fund said global economic growth should slow this year as new risks emerge.
