Pfizer reported fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday that nearly quadrupled from a year ago as revenue rose 6%. But it also lowered its sales guidance for 2012, due to some of its bestselling drugs going off patent. What’s ahead …
With trillions of dollars sitting in corporate coffers, the spigots of capital flowing to technology are finally opening up again. Gartner Research projects 5.1% growth in information technology spending in 2011. So which compa…
Investors are buying into the meme that Windows is dying — and therefore Microsoft is as well. While tablets are clearly cutting into the giant’s core PC business, Microsoft is also showing remarkable agility in building new f…
These days it feels as if every piece of economic news comes with a qualifier. However, one statistic has had an unqualified, enduring positive run: the rise in worker productivity, which bodes well for investors, employees and…
BP has benefited from high oil prices and announced it would reinstate its dividend. However, while its fourth-quarter profit was up from a year earlier, the oil giant reported a full-year loss.
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