Amazon sales jump 40%

Amazon is still keeping mum about how many Kindles it has sold, but the online retailer’s business boomed last quarter.
Amazon’s sales rose 39% […]

A $300 million bet on solar

Twenty miles south of Kokomo, Ind., sits an empty, 800,000-square foot factory built in the late stages of the now-dissolved DaimlerChrysler union. The factory, […]

Seguin to sell utility system bonds

Fitch Ratings has assigned an ‘A+’ rating to the City of Seguin’s $7.9 million utility system revenue bonds, which are priced to sell Monday, Oct. […]

DeNA to buy iPhone game maker Ngmoco for up to US$400M

The Japanese game developer DeNA Co. has agreed to buy the game maker Ngmoco for up to $400 million in cash and securities.
Ngmoco’s shareholders and […]

Job openings remain scarce for unemployed

The number of job openings increased slightly in August, but there was no real improvement of the odds that unemployed workers will find a […]

Stocks kick off October with gains

U.S. stocks began the new month higher, clawing out gains Friday as a better-than-expected reading on personal income overshadowed a mixed manufacturing report.
The Dow […]

Dish Network drops Fox Sports Arizona

A fee dispute between Dish Network and Fox Sports Networks has resulted in the former dropping 19 regional Fox sports channels from its satellite service. […]