Filed under: Consumer experience, Amazon.com (AMZN) It's not too hard to find stories on the latest Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) e-book reader, the Kindle 2. But the newly released Kindle has a lot to live up to, according to a recent ChangeWave survey of original Kindle e-book owners. Fifty-eight percent ...

Filed under: Management, Politics, Recession Electrolux CEO Hans Straberg is taking a hard line against bailouts, telling CNBC that failing companies should not receive any more help from governments around the world. "Let the businesses that are not fully functional, let the weaklings go in this, d...

Filed under: Television, Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), News Corp'B' (NWS), Media World According to The Hollywood Reporter , media conglomerate Disney (NYSE: DIS) intends to keep the song going at the High School Musical workshop. The fourth film in the series will return to th...

Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Options Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), has no qualms about executive transparency. During an appearance Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference in San Francisco, Bartz confessed that she doesn't u...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Private equity About 20 years ago, KKR fought hard to win the biggest buyout in history (at the time) - that is, the $25 billion purchase of RJR Nabisco. It was a crazy deal that ultimately turned into a best-selling book, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisc...

Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Bad news My boss at WeSeed.com has a favorite stock - True Religion Apparel Inc. (NASDAQ: TRLG), designer of jeans in the $200 - $300 range. On one hand, who has three hundred clams to spend on denim these days? On the other, people who always had such ...

Filed under: Competitive strategy, Citigroup Inc. (C), Wells Fargo (WFC) While most banks are slashing dividends and looking to raise capital, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) actually raised its dividend in the third quarter of 2008. That's been a boon to the company's stock price. Sure, it's trading at les...

Filed under: Management, Bank of America (BAC), Financial Crisis In a memorandum sent to employees on Friday, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) CEO Ken Lewis dismissed rumors of nationalization and said that the company would not need any more government assistance: "Bank of America does not need any furt...

Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) did not have a good week. The online travel site, which competes with Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) for attention, reported abysmal earnings for the fourth quarter this past Thursday. The company suffered a huge loss of $9.60 per share. That's right, $9.60 per share! Kind of ro...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Intuit Inc (INTU) With small businesses and consumers feeling the heat, the expectations for Intuit's (NASDAQ: INTU) second quarter results were certainly tempered. But the company was able to pull off a nice performance, with earnings of $85 million, or $0.26 per shar...