Starbucks founder and Chairman Howard Schultz with a warning and a challenge for his ever-expanding coffee empire, Schultz sees a threat to his brand, a problem that could impact everything that's made Starbucks the great American success and growth...
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...
