Published on May,23 2012 - by Bloomberg
(Adds CEO comment in 10th paragraph.) May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury-home builder, reported a second-quarter profit that beat estimates as sales and orders increased amid improving ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Forbes
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 yesterday was a landmark moment for the commercial exploitation of space. But the company’s founder, PayPal billionaire Elon Musk, isn’t the only entrepreneur looking to open up a viabl ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Ocado, the online grocery business, said that sales have improved in recent months after troubles at its warehouse were fixed. Ocado has been dogged with problems at its warehouse in Hatfield, which led to customer not ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Facebook has settled a lawsuit with five users who were angry about their profiles being used in adverts on the site. The legal case, which began last year after users were annoyed about their faces being used as part of ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Forbes
... get returned as quickly or at all. This is particularly true within the social networking world that has seen companies go from hot to not literally overnight. Case in point(s) are Friendster (the original social networ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Bloomberg
...bably would suffer an immediate devaluation of as much as 75 percent against the euro, forcing individuals and companies to default on foreign loans, economists at UBS AG said. Unless European leaders could make a credib...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Reuters
DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, has signed a $3 billion deal to buy 30 more Hawk jets from British defense group BAE Systems to train pilots to fly the Eurofighter Typhoon jets which ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Bloomberg
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who has helped Ronny Pecik finance his 20 percent stake in Telekom Austria AG, said Carlos Slim’s America Movil SAB approached Austria about its stake in the t ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Kaiser Health
...use of the increase in the health care," she said. And Fronstin says the weak economy is driving more and more companies to cut back on coverage because of simple math — it's the only way they can keep up with rising hea...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - PetroChina <0857.HK> will boost its natural gas purchases from Central Asia by as much as half this year even as it is unable to fully pass on import costs to consumers due to state price ...