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NEW YORK (AP) — A company started in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 has just raised $16 billion and is valued at $104 billion. All that from an initial public offering of stock.
But taking a company public isn't as simple as clicking on "like." Even... Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (AP) — He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO.
Facebook's chief executive turned 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network's big... Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (AP) — The impending shutdown of the Nextel network doubled Sprint Nextel Corp.'s loss in the first quarter, it said Wednesday, as it wrote down the value of the network and subscribers kept leaving it.
Investors, however, were cheered b... Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (AP) — He calls himself an "Apple fanboy," owns four iPads and two iPhones, follows the company obsessively and predicts it will keep turning blockbuster profits. But whether you should own the stock is another matter.
He says it's just ... Read the rest of this entry »
BOSTON (AP) — Investing is about give and take.
Consider growth-oriented companies, which are focused on building business and expanding market share. When the economy improves, their stocks are likely to rise more sharply than those of well-esta... Read the rest of this entry »
BOSTON (AP) — Investing is about give and take.
Consider growth-oriented companies, which are focused on building business and expanding market share. When the economy improves, their stocks are likely to rise more sharply than those of well-esta... Read the rest of this entry »
BANGKOK (AP) — KFC Thailand has issued an apology after being criticized for a Facebook message that urged people to rush home during Wednesday's tsunami scare and order a bucket of KFC chicken.
As people were being urged to evacuate from beach a... Read the rest of this entry »
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Florida company that brought the ".xxx" domain to the Internet has applied for three more adult-themed domains.
Palm Beach Gardens-based ICM Registry says it's applying for ".sex," ''.porn" and ".adult" domains... Read the rest of this entry »
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — There is no snooze button. If you unplug it, a battery takes over. As wake-up time approaches, you cannot reset the alarm time.
It could be the world's most exasperating alarm clock.
Once it goes off, to stop it you must ge... Read the rest of this entry »
SALO, Finland (AP) — Tomi Marjuaho repaired mobile phones for 10 years in the town of Salo in southern Finland, where Nokia, the world's top cell phone-maker, set up its wireless operations in the 1980s.
He took a severance package in 2010, as ... Read the rest of this entry »