Twitter May Be Using the microblogging service to connect with customers. Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question, "What are you doing?" in a 140 characters or less. It started about four years ago, has experienced phenomenal growth and is now one of the most popular so...

Interest groups spent $17.4 million for every day Congress was in session. Lobbying growth for finance sector and auto industry is smaller in tough times. WASHINGTON--While companies across the board were losing record amounts of money and laying off employees last year, at least one industry s...

    A congressional investigation has produced new details on the degree to which senior Bush administration officials favored using the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions - until pressure from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, ExxonMobil and others in the oil ind...

Should oil executives be prosecuted for high crimes against humanity? Top NASA scientist Jim Hansen thinks so. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Hansen said,   "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation ...

   All along I’ve been thinking that the gia-normous profits the oil companies are making have been the result of corporate avarice, and that ExxonMobil and the like are making billions at the hands of poor schlubs like me who are spending at the pump liked never before.   I was so wrong.   E...

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Earnings/Financials With gas prices as high as they are, it might seem hard to believe that some gas companies aren't profitable, but apparently Exxon Mobil isn't doing as well as they might wish. The company just announced that it will be selling off its gas stati...

The descendants of John Rockefeller are trying to steer their great grandfather’s company away from the dinosaur mentality that has tarred the image of world’s largest corporation. This week, a number of the Rockefeller clan will be supporting shareholder resolutions aimed at forcing Exxon Mobil...

Not good enough: Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday record crude prices helped its net income grow 17 percent in the first quarter, but the results came in below Wall Street forecasts. Its shares fell $2.32, or 2.5 percent, to $90.75 in premarket tradin...

Filed under: Other issues, Exxon Mobil (XOM), Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy By now, many investors/readers have heard the statistic: if ExxonMobil's 2007 revenue of $390.2 billion were listed as GDP, it would rank as the 31st largest nation in the world, in purchasing power parity terms. It's easy...

  Bush is prepared to ask Congress for $5.6 billion to fund his troop surge and an additional $1.2 billion to fund a “jobs programâ€� in Iraq with the claim that his detractors have no viable alternative to that plan. Yet, while that may be true of some members of Congress who feel our contin...