On Friday, the Justice Department announced it had settled with six tech giants that had made anticompetitive agreements not to poach top employees from each other. That may have been an issue two years ago, but not now as a ma…
One of the key innovations Amazon implemented on its way to becoming the nation’s largest online book retailer was to allow its customers to preview snippets of books. Now, a new patent granted to the online giant suggests they…
The FTC has cleared a BHP Billiton bid for Potash Corp., but that hardly matters. Authorities in the fertilizer company’s home country of Canada may not approve the transaction. And it looks like BHP won’t be the only bidder. T…
Citigroup Inc. (C) will pay five of its top executives almost $33 million in stock compensation this year and plans to increase its CEO’s salary above his $1 a year figure in 2011, marking the financial institution’s effort to…
U.S. officials have begun an investigation into 133,000 Honda Fit models in response to consumer complaints about headlights that stopped working. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s preliminary investigation i…