If you have kids and haven’t had to perform the panicked check of the toy box for recalled toys this summer, count yourself lucky. In the last week, four more recalls of toys with potentially hazardous levels of lead paint, all made in China, have been announced. And …
Archive for August, 2007
ABB bids final adieu to oil & gas business
by Anne Law, August 30, 2007, 7:08 amAfter numerous trials and tribulations, Swiss industrial giant ABB Ltd is taking the final step in its restructuring plan by shedding its last downstream oil and gas assets. In a deal worth nearly $1 billion, energy engineering and …
What’s inside the chips inside the iPhone?
by Jeff Dorsch, August 29, 2007, 6:51 amNow that the excitement and hype over the Apple iPhone have died down, let’s look at one of the big winners among the component suppliers for the new smart phone: ARM Holdings.
ARM is an interesting case. It’s not just a fabless semiconductor company …
Tata goes shopping for luxury cars
by Patrice Sarath, August 28, 2007, 6:12 amEast is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet. — Rudyard Kipling
It will give us more of a global presence. It is to give us scale and global reach as we take ourselves away from subordination to a single economy. — Tata Chairman …
Brother, can you spare a dime for the big banks, too?
by Ryan Caione, August 27, 2007, 6:33 amThe long list of lenders in peril is well-documented. (Added to the drumbeat was last week’s news that already-troubled Accredited Home Lenders and NovaStar will close offices and lay off hundreds of workers and Lehman Brothers …
Google’s next conquest: health care
by Kristi Park, August 24, 2007, 6:30 amCan Google, like Chuck Norris’s tears, cure cancer? Well, no — not yet, anyway. But the seemingly all-powerful Internet company is getting into the business of health care, a development the New York Times took note of last week in an article …
Motorcycle sales sputter amid sub-prime jitters
by James Bryant, August 23, 2007, 7:00 amAs housing foreclosures continue at a steady clip, the implosion of the sub-prime lending market is sending ripples into some surprising corners of the economy. The jitters are being felt in the automotive retail market …
Slam bang summer at the movies
by Larry Bills, August 22, 2007, 7:00 amHollywood is on track to have a happy ending to its 2007 summer, with the movie industry poised to finish the season with about 600 million tickets sold for a …
The few, the proud, the US-made toy makers
by Linnea Kirgan, August 21, 2007, 7:10 amWhile Mattel tries to restore its image after the latest lead paint scare on Chinese-made products, toy manufacturers based in the US are playing up their roots and hoping parents clamor for their products. (For products with the …
Hell hath no fury like a woman with 50,000 volts
by Daysha Taylor, August 20, 2007, 6:38 am“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn, Nor hell a fury like a woman-scorned.” The quote from William Congreve’s 17th-century play The Mourning Bride has been the most notable statement to encapsulate the essence of an angry woman. It’s lasted …
