As it turns out, those hyperbolic news reports of the online dangers targeting your children may have had an iota of truth. Under pressure from dozens of state attorneys general, MySpace (NWS) has id

Bernard Madoff notwithstanding, defrauding consumers is not a viable business practice - an important lesson, to be sure, and one which Dell (DELL) has now learned the hard way. The company will pay

Despite my stated intention to have a less material holiday this year, temptation abounds! Stores are dropping prices to unheard-of-levels, and my place is the destination for this Christmas Eve&rsqu

A woman once sued McDonald's (MCD) because she spilled the company's hot coffee on her lap while driving and a man sued Anheuser-Busch (BUD) because he guzzled its beer, but a gaggle of biki

“We appear to be entering a period of serious stagflation with sharply rising expected and actual inflation combined with large downside risks to growth and employment.""I would argue

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

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