There were plenty of fancy new music playing phones on view at the big mobile phone trade fair in Barcelona. But not the one everyone is talking about. Apple didn't bother to show up to show off its iPhone. But London-based Omniphone did come and lau...
In the race for the title of world's largest automaker, Toyota of Japan proved Tuesday it's on track to unseat US car giant General Motors. We've posted record highs from sales to net profit in our third quarter. In its latest quarterly earnings repo...
Intel says it's developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second. That's trillion with the T, a one followed by 12 zeros. Just to give you some perspective here. The company says it can put on a chip the si...
This refinement to our relationship with IBM's ? in this guise of a win-win relationship. William Amelio is a corporate pioneer, the man whose job's been to manage the merger of an American icon with a mainland Chinese company. Amelio, formerly the h...
They are the markets every investor wants to find before they take off and after a 130% rise in China's locally traded market last year. Millions of Chinese have poured their money into stocks. But that's making problems for a nervous government. Tyl...
Chung Mong-koo, the chairman of South Korea's largest carmaker Hyundai Motor, has been handed a three-year jail sentence in what many here believe is a compromise in a raging debate between those who believe that South Korea should improve its intern...
The Dow Jones is the oldest running stock exchange in the United States looming large from Wall Street to your 401(K) . Founded back in 1896, the Dow was set up to track America's big industrial companies. But these days, GE is the only component in...
Well that long-awaited Vista operating system will be available to consumers starting at midnight tonight. CompUSA, Best Buy and Circuit City are among the stores that will have extended hours tonight so that you can be the first on your block to ins...
I think it changes the power dramatically. If you are a smart person, somewhere in the world, you can be connected in real time and be followed into a process anywhere in the world. You couldn't, let's say five years ago, you had to physically move t...
Time for a corporate crime update, and we begin this morning with Hewlett-Packard. Welcome back, everybody. 55 minutes past the hour. Let's get right to Ali Velshi, he is Minding Your Business this morning. Sadly, there's always lots to talk about on...
This week CNN's very own parent company, Time Warner, laid off more than 250 employees in its print division. The cuts are a part of a growing trend throughout the print media business. So are we really headed toward a day when newspapers go the way...
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Tomorrow Steve Jobs is said to address Macworld. Now that's the weeklong conference that Apple fans look forward to all year long. And it's a chance to get a sneak peek at Apple's latest gadgets. But this year's convention comes just weeks after news...
What started as a small business in a dorm room is now a word in the English language. And Google has no plans to slow down. In October, the company paid $1.65 billon to acquire YouTube. In December, Google agreed to a partnership with NASA to bring...
Maybe Mattel (The world's largest toy company) is also up, because it's been a very good year. And this is the time in a year when people buy a lot of toys. It's also been quite a year in business over the last 12 months, the biggest names involved i...
