I would recommend that anyone interested in the future of Europe take a look at the speech by EC President Jose Manuel Barroso (all right, stop laughing!). Really.
As thousands of the country’s most influential editors and prolific bloggers descend upon Fashion Week in New York, beauty and fashion start-ups are seizing on the twice-yearly opportunity to drum up business.
Toys 'R Us, the world's largest toy retailer, has announced a plan to allow parents to reserve any of the 50 toys on its hot holiday toy list for guaranteed delivery by Dec. 16.
Mark Zuckerberg responded to criticism about the missteps in Facebook's mobile strategy and the sharp drop in the stock price. While investors appeared to like what they heard, one analyst has slashed his price target on the stock.
The big challenge at Ford remains the mounting losses in Europe. They're already more than $500 million this year and could eventually reach $1.5 billion this year.
European banks are trading up about 3 percent. German stocks are at a 52-week high; France, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal markets are at multi-month highs. Italian 10-year debt yield is at a five-month low of 5.009 percent, if it drops below 5 percent it would be first time since April.
Mark Zuckerberg gives his first interview since the Facebook IPO; Ex-JCP exec joins the GAP; Steve Wynn releases a scathing statement on Joe Francis and Ford may soon have a CEO succession plan.
In an interview at Tech Crunch Disrupt in San Francisco, I asked Matt Cohler — a former Facebook employee and current advisor to Mark Zuckerberg — what he thought about the stock's dramatic decline since the IPO.
California continues to have the third highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 10.7 percent. But there is one job opening, and it's paying six figures—chief economist.