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A Makeover for eBay
Filed under: Management , Competitive Strategy , eBay (EBAY) We’ve oft heard the saying: “We must reinvent ourselves.” This is the new mantra...
Corn Surges on Short Supply
Filed under: International Markets , China , Brazil , Market Matters , Economic Data , Commodities , Agriculture March corn futures jumped 24.25 cents a bushel...
Coca-Cola’s Earnings Surge
Filed under: Earnings Reports , Coca-Cola (KO) , PepsiCo (PEP) Last year, Coca-Cola ( KO ) acquired Coca-Cola Enterprises’ North American bottling operations....
Cisco Systems Earnings: Net Income Falls 18%
Filed under: Earnings Reports , Cisco Systems (CSCO) , Technology Bellwether technology company Cisco Systems ( CSCO ) reported second-quarter profit fell, although...
A Self-Employed Carpenter’s Thoughts on the Future
The world is changing. Currently, as a nation, we have a large and well-trained section of our work force dedicated to residential construction. Unemployment within...
Carlos Slim Catches Gold Fever
Carlos Slim beat both Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in stock market performance last year. The reason: a hell-bent plan to start a brand-new gold and silver mining...
Blinder Understates Cost of Carbon Tax
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal , Alan Blinder listed numerous alleged benefits of a phased-in carbon tax. Out of his entire column, he devoted a...
Why Paul Krugman Is Wrong on the Austrians
The Austrians on Capital In contrast to mainstream macro models, which either do not possess capital at all or at best denote it as a homogenous stock of size “K,”...
Yahoo! Still Trying to Play Catch Up
Filed under: Earnings Reports , Forecasts , Internet , Yahoo! (YHOO) Yahoo is still trying to play catch up. Helped by cost cuts, Yahoo! ( YHOO ) posted late Tuesday...
How Not to Stop a Terrorist
As Glenn Greenwald predicted, terrorists have attacked the next most logical target. A suicide bomber has caused the death of nearly three dozen people in Moscow’s...
Tibco Develops a Social Network for Business
Filed under: Industry , Small Business , Technology Tibco Software ( TIBX ) has carried the concept of social networking to business, as reported in Investor’s.com...
China Signs a Deal to Buy Soybeans from U.S. Companies
Filed under: China , Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) , Agriculture , Bunge Ltd. (BG) Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce, Wang Chao, led a business delegation that signed...
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