French entertainment and communications group Vivendi reported revenues up 6.9 percent to EUR 27.13 billion in 2009, up from EUR 25.39 billion a year earlier. Group chairman Jean-Bernard Levy said the main growth engines were acquisitions made in 2008.
Activision Blizzard and SFR have met their targets due the success of the games Call of Duty: [...]
Do you have any plans for investments any soon? Are you planning to invest in tech stocks? How about purchasing shares of Facebook? Lets have a look on how shares of Facebook stocks trade. Considering that the company is riding high on a wave of publicity and that the number of users registered on Facebook [...]
It’s not all well with the otherwise unruffled insurance industry – at least with the health insurance sector. Following the recent insurance controversy that rocked the American health policies, a few social reformists have even argued supporting immediate launching of free health insurance coverage for all! Their agony is not baseless! The way WellPoint, the [...]
Palm seems to be in big trouble. The smartphone maker yesterday cut a key revenue forecast and said that demand for its flagship Pre device isn’t meeting expectations, refueling speculation that Palm may soon need to seek a buyer.
The company blamed “slower-than-expected consumer adoption of the company’s products that has resulted in lower-than-expected order volumes [...]
A recent news posted in Herald Sun confirms that the world’s top central bankers began arriving in Australia. It is assumed that they are gathering up for a secret summit supposed to held at a venue that has been kept confidential till now. Analysts say that this can be a possible outcome of renewed fears [...]
Recent posting from Reuters explains that Cisco is making profits and currently out of global recession. Cisco, whose shares rose 4 percent, expects to hire 2,000 to 3,000 people in the next several quarters, Chambers said in another sign of his confidence in the economic recovery.
Cisco forecast revenue growth accelerating to a range of 23 [...]
Monster will buy HotJobs for $225 million in cash, the companies announced today.
This is a long-anticipated but still very smart move by Yahoo. HotJobs is not central to Yahoo’s core portal business. This way it gets to unload the costs of maintaining the service, some cash now, and some cash later.
Some other businesses we expect Yahoo [...]
Unlink the traditional proprietorship and partnership forms of business, corporations (a limited liability company) are gaining popularity because of the need of higher capital base. Corporations are also regarded as ‘legal person’ as it has right to enter into a contract, it can sue and be sued. But ‘limited liabilities’ is the most important aspect [...]
A recession is when GDP growth slows, businesses stop expanding, employment falls, unemployment rises and housing prices decline. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an organization that is seen as having the final word in determining whether the United States is in recession. It has a more extensive definition of recession, which deems [...]
Quotes in the stock market is the last price at which a stock traded, that means the most recent price on which buyer and seller agreed and at which the stock was traded.
Generally there are two types of quotes: bid quotes or ask quotes. These quotes are the most current prices and quantities at the [...]
