Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) fourth-quarter earnings reflect its continued effort to expand through acquisition and deliver end-to-end data services.The company is scheduled to release earnings Mond

Frank Stronach, chairman and founder of Magna International (MGA), launched his empire by making 300,000 sun visor brackets for General Motors. The rest, as they say, is history.Nine years after the

The recession hasn’t taken a bite out of Petsmart’s (PETM) earnings, thanks to the company’s ability to cut costs and slightly increase margins on essentially flat sales.The nation&

It’s fascinating how the sell side uniformly aligned to praise the Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) acquisition of 3Com (COMS) last week. Cheerleaders are plentiful but analysis of an underlying problem s

Don’t sit around in shock, take action.The shock of being laid off barely had time to set in before Jim Wessel began looking for another job.Released as purchasing director for a resort one Fri

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A strong IPO market is good news for private equity, and the new issues market will remain strong into next year, the president and chief operating officer of Blackstone Group (BX) believes.“We

Yesterday, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) CEO Warren Buffett stunned Wall Street when he announced he was plunking down $34 billion to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI). This isn’t the firs

Berkshire for BNI Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) will acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNI) for the remaining 77.4% of outstanding shares the company doesn’t already own.The

Comcast (CMCSA) is reportedly in talks with General Electric (GE) to acquire a stake in NBC Universal. Comcast denies that it’s reached an agreement to acquire the owner of the NBC network, but