Social media gives companies a chance to humanize themselves, giving fans exclusive content in return for their loyalty. It's an effective strategy, and it's helped change the fortunes of several companies on the brink of solvency.
In Athens, leftist Alexis Tsipras became the second political leader to try and form a government on Wednesday, after first placed New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras abandoned attempts on Monday.
CEO of AOL Tim Armstrong set out to settle all the rumors and address the growing concerns among Patch employees and AOL investors this morning in a conference call.
The trial for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky could be postponed. An attorney for Sandusky, who charged last year with more than 50 counts involving sexual acts with minors, asked on Wednesday, May 09, for his client's June 5 trial to be delayed.
There will be no new Top Gear until 2013 except for a Christmas special because of fat people singing and Simon Cowell, the show's controversial but beloved host Jeremy Clarkson confirmed on Twitter Wednesday.
Ukraine's imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was moved from her cell to a local hospital Wednesday for treatment of a chronic back condition, after ending a 19-day hunger strike in protest of alleged harsh treatment from prison guards.
A Russian Sukhoi SuperJet 100 vanished over Indonesia on Wednesday during a demo flight meant to promote Russia's first newly-designed passenger jet since the Soviet collapse.
The search to find missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith, who disappeared from a friend's Los Angeles-area home May 1, is getting an extra boost with more manpower being added to assist in the investigation.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola is looking for a delay in his client's trial.
Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M), the national retailer that counts department stores brands Macy's and Bloomingdale's in its portfolio, reported earnings Wednesday that exceeded expectations, but still disappointed Wall Street, which was looking for higher guidance from the company on future earnings.
Spain stepped up efforts to save its troubled banks on Thursday with a plan to make them recognize huge losses from a property crash, but uncertainty over the final cost of a rescue hit the euro, Spanish debt and global stock markets.
Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) reported a 30 percent drop in income for its fiscal year ended March 31, but the company is nevertheless making headway down the road to recovery from last year's earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand as income for January-March 2012 increased by a factor of five.
Victor Willis, the original lead singer in the six-man group the Village People, won a landmark copyright case Wednesday that will give him partial ownership of dozens of the disco band's songs.
Fannie Mae (OTC: FNMA), the government-controlled mortgage giant that was brought to its knees during the housing crisis, said Wednesday it had net income of $2.7 billion in the first quarter as home prices declined at a slower rate than in the previous quarter, and its book of business improved.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (NYSE: GSK) will begin a $2.6 billion hostile takeover bid for Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI), the company announced Wednesday.
Demonstrators are expected to swarm Bank of America Corp's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to voice anger over a range of issues from foreclosures to corporate taxes to financing for the coal industry.
Wholesalers increased their stockpiles modestly in March, but by less than economists had expected, as the value of petroleum stocks dropped by the most in nearly two years.
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Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensex closed at a four month low by shedding nearly 67 points on Wednesday as weak global trends triggered heavy fund outflows.The BSE bench mark 30 share index lost 66.60 points to reach 16,479.59, dragged down by sharp declines in Reliance industry and banking stocks. Reliance Industries dropped for the sixth day by losing 1.91 per cent to Rs 695.10 after it cut the estimates for actual natural gas reserves available in its Indian blocks.
Third Point, the New York hedge fund that owns 5.8 percent of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, scored another victory late Tuesday as the company formally announced a director would quit.
A Morocco immigrant attacked his sister-in-law for taking his wife to the beach. He was enraged because she dared to take his wife on the beach trip without his permission, a court heard on Tuesday. Ismail Belghar allegedly slapped Canan Kokden across her face, called her a 'slut' and held her over a car park railing when he noticed his wife Hanife Kokden's sunburned shoulders.
German exports unexpectedly rose for the third straight month in March as demand from outside the euro zone offset weaker sales within the currency bloc, prompting economists to predict that Europe?s biggest economy will escape recession.
A Greek sovereign default has always been a talismanic scare for the euro stakeholders. It would put the common currency under the greatest pressure since its creation, and shake the foundations of the currency bloc.
Mitt Romney's dog on the roof story seems to pale compared to his 1981 arrest coming to light. BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski managed to dig up a very little reported story about the Republican Presidential nominee's run in with the law in 1981.
Thanks to the rapid growth in the use of apps and services, the personal cloud will eclipse the personal computer (PC) as the hub of consumers' digital lives by 2014, introducing a new concept for how people store, synchronize, share and stream content.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade Wednesday are Demand Media Inc, Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc, Fossil Inc, Banco Santander, EXCO Resources Inc, Ford Motor Company and Newmont Mining.
According to recent report cited in DigiTimes, Apple is going to launch a new MacBook Air sometime around the third quarter of this year. Further, the report has suggested that the new Air would be priced by the company at a price as low as $799.
Sales of smartphones and tablets are skyrocketing but consumers report they don?t necessarily trust online or mobiles services to be secure, a new survey found.
Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.6 percent, Dow Jones futures 0.3 percent weaker, and Nasdaq 100 futures off 0.5 percent at 04:54 a.m. EDT (0854 GMT).
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp said Wednesday that its net profit for the three months ending March 31 surged five times compared to a year earlier as the car market picked up in the US.
