After months of anticipation General Motors has priced its stock at $33 a share in its initial public offering slated to begin official trading Thursday in New York. The figure is at the high end of the offer, which in recent d…
Target reported Wednesday morning that net earnings grew 22.6% in the third quarter, beating estimates, as sales rose 3% and the company got a boost from its credit card business. The company also expects fourth quarter compara…
The Google (GOOG) algorithm just got stylish.
On Wednesday, the Internet giant launched Boutiques.com, its new fashion site that applies the search engine to the world of clothes.
Users will be able to search through hundreds of virtual boutiques f…
With retailers moving out of crisis mode, they’re back to investing in new bells and whistles for their stores and websites. Such as: Apps that send coupons to your smartphone or digicams that let you post pictures of a dress y…
McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) raised the prices of some of the items on its menu in Chinese stores because of higher costs.
The increase “is because of higher raw material prices and we’ve adjusted our prices accordingly,” Sophia Luan, spokeswoman for McDon…