Salesforce.com is expanding its cloud computing service with a new option that lets customers more easily build external Web sites.The company is expected to announce the new service, called Force.com Sites, at its Dreamforce user conference on Monday in San ...Read More
The convenience store chain announced Tuesday it is getting into the value wine business, releasing two low-priced proprietary wines in the United States and Japan. Sold under the Yosemite Road label, the California wines, a chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon, will retail ...Read More
Google is once again dangling incentives before engineers.
The company threw open its doors Monday to the engineering community Monday, announcing that it granted a Founders' Prize--"a multimillion-dollar stock bonus"--to the team that developed Google Chrome. "(The) future is shaped by ...Read More
NEW YORK, Nov 2 (Reuters) - A senior Cisco Systems Inc(CSCO.O) executive said on Monday that the company offered "avery good price" for Tandberg (TAA.OL), after some shareholdersof the Norwegian videoconferencing company said the price wastoo low. Ned Hooper, a senior ...Read More
Oxygen is bringing back its popular weight-loss show, Dance Your Ass Off, for a second season in 2010.
“We loved watching as contestants danced off nearly 500 pounds,” says Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development for Oxygen ...Read More
A change of perspective can make a pullback feel like a bear market. A series of triple-digit days for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, coupled with a spike in the CBOE Market Volatility Index, has many on Wall Street convinced that ...Read More
P. Steven Ainsley, the publisher of the Boston Globe, said he will retire Jan. 1, capping a three-year stint in which the paper and the rest of industry experienced sharp declines in advertising revenue and paid circulation. Chris Mayer, currently senior ...Read More
SEATTLE -Competition between Starbucks Coffee Co. and Dunkin' Donuts has gone beyond mochas and lattes, to corporate executives. Paul Twohig (TOO'-ig) of Hilton Head, S.C., a former Starbucks senior vice president who jumped ship to work for Dunkin', reportedly is paying ...Read More
Winners in the Obama administration's $3.4 billion smart grid sweepstakes were exultant. Some losers sounded bitter. But there seemed to be no quarrel that yesterday's Energy Department grants will accelerate revolutionary changes in the ways electricity is generated and managed ...Read More
Branson Wright goes to the Cavs opener CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Shaquille O'Neal waded into an inflatable kiddie pool and allowed water to be poured continuously over his head to simulate emergence from a lake. Daniel Gibson watched his arms be plastered ...Read More
NEW YORK—Whoa, baseball fans!
Check out the lyrics of "Empire State of Mind," the hit song Jay-Z and fellow New Yorker Alicia Keys plan to perform at Thursday night's World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium.
Don't freak. Major League Baseball says ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - Whoa, baseball fans!
Check out the lyrics of "Empire State of Mind," the hit song Jay-Z and fellow New Yorker Alicia Keys plan to perform at Wednesday night's World Series opener at Yankee Stadium.
Don't freak. Major League ...Read More
A Fox News executive refuted on Saturday reports that the White House didn't make the administration's "pay czar" available for an interview because the network didn't ask. "Of course we requested the interview," Fox News Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said, ...Read More
(Adds comments from spokesman, vice president, paragraphs 3,4) HOUSTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Tesoro Corp (TSO.N) plans torestart on Friday the crude distillation unit at its 58,000barrel-per-day refinery in Salt Lake City, Utah, a spokesmansaid. The unit was shut on Wednesday afternoon ...Read More
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Tishman Speyer Properties LP andits partners moved closer to defaulting on $3 billion in loansthey used to purchase Manhattan’s largest apartment complexafter a New York court ruled that the owners illegally raisedrents on thousands of tenants. The ...Read More
Microsoft planned to announce Wednesday that it had fully integrated posts from Twitter into the search results of Bing, according to people with knowledge of the company's plans. The company also planned to announce that it had integrated Facebook status ...Read More
CHICAGO-AT&T and Verizon Communications are among the most vocal opponents to Net neutrality regulation, but the phone companies' top lobbyists reiterated Wednesday here at the Supercomm 2009 trade show that they would be alright with some regulation, so long as ...Read More
Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members' public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine. Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Audience Business, made the ...Read More
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose above $81 a barrel inNew York for the first time in a year and gasoline surged aftera U.S. Energy Department report showed a greater-than-forecastdrop in supplies of the motor fuel. Gasoline stockpiles fell 2.21 ...Read More
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil surged above $80 a barrelin New York to a one-year high after a U.S. Energy Departmentreport showed a greater-than-forecast gasoline supply drop. Gasoline stockpiles fell 2.21 million barrels, more thantwice the median of analyst forecasts, ...Read More
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.
Average tuition at four-year public colleges in the U.S. climbed 6.5 percent, or $429, to ...Read More
