It's not yet clear what Burger King's new owner, the Brazilian-backed private equity firm 3G Capital, has in mind for the troubled No. 2 fast-food chain. But a total strategic revamp is in order.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:53:24 EDT]
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The iPod helped Apple rise from the dead in the last decade. But the iPod Classic, the device that jump-started that resurrection, didn't get so much as a mention from Steve Jobs at Apple's iPod event on Wednesday.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:42:49 EDT]
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Shares of Mariner Energy tumbled Thursday after a fire in one of the company's production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:24:24 EDT]
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The rumors persisted of Lehman Brothers' being taken over again, and it was against such a background that Dick devised his pièce de résistance.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:55:13 EDT]
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The 3PAR bidding war finally came to its conclusion Thursday after Dell conceded victory to Hewlett-Packard.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:07:15 EDT]
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Burger King said Thursday that it has agreed to be acquired by investment firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $4 billion.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:46:43 EDT]
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As General Motors gets ready to take its show on the road in support of its initial public offering after Election Day, one of its biggest question marks is the future of Opel and its European division.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:50:44 EDT]
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Plenty of industries in this economy are slumping, but there are a few big winners in each one that are beating the odds.
[Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:42:50 EDT]
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Cisco's rumored bid for Skype would make a great deal of strategic sense for the networking giant, but the pairing faces one major obstacle that might prevent the deal from getting done.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:56:26 EDT]
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August is usually filled with the dog days of summer, but this year corporate dealmakers skipped their vacations and went shopping instead.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:42:16 EDT]
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a revamped Apple TV device, a new iPod line and updates to the operating system for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad at Apple's highly anticipated product launch event on Wednesday.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:24:18 EDT]
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Sony updated its line of e-readers Wednesday, a move that brought a touchscreen to its cheapest version but also hiked its price by almost $30.
[Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:41:39 EDT]
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Late Monday, BP responded to a request from the Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce that asked the company to report how much money it had shelled out on advertising after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:14:51 EDT]
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The nation's top automakers reported disappointing sales Wednesday, resulting in the worst August for industrywide auto sales in 27 years.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:14:16 EDT]
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Automakers are operating in terra incognita as they prepare for the biggest change in the way cars are powered in a century. As they begin to add battery-powered cars to their lineups, they will have to solve some fundamental problems about how the cars are built and sold.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:18:28 EDT]
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Once upon a time another Naval Academy graduate, Ross Perot, tried to right troubled General Motors Corp. as an activist director. Now it's the turn of Dan Akerson, class of 1970 and a telecoms executive-turned-private equity specialist.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:03:57 EDT]
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating possible steering mechanism problems on some 2011 Hyundai Sonatas.
[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:29:39 EDT]
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The coverage of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill is teaching the typically secretive oil industry something about life in the limelight. Now, the company has to account for every cent it spends.
[Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:17:34 EDT]
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The government's list of troubled banks hit its highest level since 1993 during the second quarter, although the pace of growth continued to slow, according to a government report released Tuesday.
[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:42:48 EDT]
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Clearwire on Monday unveiled "Rover," a pay-as-you-go 4G network that it hopes will attract new users to its flailing and unprofitable mobile broadband service.
[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:26:55 EDT]
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