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Following Independence Day, many major retail chains reported same store sales that beat or remained in-line with estimates. At a time when sales are usually plentiful and shoppers can be found traipsing the malls for hot summer deals, June brought about sweltering competition and few surprises to...

The impending threat of Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) long-awaited tablet may have inspired Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) to release the next Kindle Fire a few months early. Though nothing official has been announced, the online retail giant was not expected to release a new tablet until October or November....

First a camera phone, now an iPad-killer? The dying tech giant might finally make a comeback. It seems like only yesterday I was mocking Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and making fun of the company's Windows Phone 7 handsets. But after the 808 PureView – AKA Nokia's first iPhone-killer – made its public debut...

After President Obama said it would take time to study the feasibility of TransCanada's (NYSE: TRP) Keystone XL Pipeline project, House Republicans found a new way of bringing the question to the table again, by bundling the issue within the law that would extend the tax cut through the holidays...

Even the most brilliant minds in finance can make terrible mistakes. And when they do, the results are usually as bad as a lame summer blockbuster that ultimately flopped. 3. They Don't Know When to Quit Is there anyone left that believes that MF Global (NYSE: MF) will make a comeback? It's not...

Is AOL's massive acquisition finally paying off? According to AllThingsD, the Huffington Post has announced that it has topped one billion page views for the month of August. This announcement coincides with AOL's (NYSE: AOL) acquisition of an “online grassroots platform” called Localocracy,...

Soon to have the new slogan, "You've got death." If you visit the homepage of the company formerly known as America Online (NYSE: AOL), you may have noticed a change. Whereas aol.com used to be known as a hub for logging into a crappy e-mail account, it has slowly transformed into a mainstream...

It turns out that the reports were right – orange juice has become a luxury. In fact, real orange juice became a luxury several years ago when Tropicana, the fruit juice producer owned by PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), decided to market “not-from-concentrate” orange juice as a premium product. Or so the...

While they whined about the “debt crisis,” 76 people were sickened and one person died. The news came out of nowhere. With “debt ceiling” nonsense and “we can't agree” hyperbole ruling the airwaves, the Internet, and all other forms of news distribution, few people were aware of our nation's...

Will the rumor mills ever get it right? The Huffington Post reports that the iPad 3 could come equipped with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) trademark Retina Display. If this news sounds familiar, that's because the Retina Display rumors have been spreading for months. This time, however, there is some...

Bank of America (NYSE: BA), no stranger to controversy, is under investigation by the New York Attorney General over its mortgage securitization practices, the Huffington Post reported Monday. Two people familiar with the matter stated that the new probe could call into question the authenticity...

It's official: Sony (NYSE: SNE) is currently the most hacked and most embattled corporation of 2011. From the moment PlayStation Network was attacked, Sony has been faced with a series of unexpected challenges. From the House Committee hearing to a potential delay of PS Vita that was miraculously...

In his testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged lawmakers to refrain from using the federal debt ceiling as a “bargaining chip”, Bloomberg reports. The debt ceiling—which presently sits at $14.3 trillion—will, according to Treasury...

How about 30 million unique users and 400 million page views in one day? Business Insider reports that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) achieved just that on what was dubbed Royal Wedding Friday. Yahoo!'s video traffic soared as well, breaking the previous record by 21%. Yahoo! intends to maintain its...

The Huffington Post has a list of the top 10 country's with the most billionaires. China, Russia, India continued to add billionaires, as real estate, commodities, and equities soared around the globe in 2010. Billionaires in China rose 140%, the most of any country on the list. "That growth [in...