The Happiest Place on Earth – now with more facial hair! NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Mickey Mouse can finally grow that goatee he’s always wanted. Until now, Disney (DIS, Fortune 500) parks and resort employees had been prohibited from growing beards and goatees.
American Airlines’ bankruptcy could make it an attractive takeover target. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — American Airlines’ bankruptcy has many in the industry questioning if a merger is in its future. US Airways (LCC, Fortune 500), whose management has a history of making bids for larger airlines that are in bankruptcy, ...
SwaddleDesigns, a Seattle-based small business, scored first-ever license to make baby products for the mega-popular Angry Birds brand. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A small Seattle-based company hit it big after snagging the first-ever license to make Angry Birds baby products.
Click the chart to track J.C. Penney’s stock NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — J.C. Penney’s ambitious plan to turn around its business and make its brand hip and cool is in high gear, but whether the 110-year-old company’s stock will keep up the pace is another question. On Wednesday, the company ...
FORTUNE — When Apple announced its latest quarterly earnings last week, the most amazing thing wasn’t that it once again blew away Wall Street’s expectations. This company is on a roll of unprecedented proportions, and it’s almost assumed that it will exceed expectations — the only question is by how ...
Analysts say Obama has truly embraced an ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy, and the consumers will be the ultimate winner. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — President Obama’s half dozen energy proposals will, by and large, benefit nearly all players in the energy space and result in lower prices for consumers, analysts say.
The SEC has brought roughly a dozen cases against private equity firms to trial since 2000. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The private equity world is struggling to stay in the shadows. It’s harder to do so with Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney getting criticized for his private equity roots. If ...
Social media used: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, RenRen, TripAdvisor, internal and external blog The longtime face of Marriott International, Bill Marriott, has operated a blog since 2007, and the company uses mainstream social media such as Facebook and Twitter extensively — Marriott says it leads the hospitality industry ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Netflix said Wednesday it began to add customers again last quarter, after a series of blunders damaged its sterling reputation with consumers and investors. The streaming video and DVD-by-mail company said it gained a net 610,000 U.S. customers in the fourth quarter of 2011, including 220,000 ...
When Wegmans Food Markets has to eliminate a position, they make sure they find the displaced employee another job that they will be passionate about within the company. When their Britton Rd. store in Rochester, N.Y. closed last summer, they offered all of the store’s employees a job at another ...
Barack Obama doesn’t live here, but this Apple store is worth about as much as his house. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Which is more valuable: The White House or one single Apple store? It’s almost a tie. Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) sells an annual average of $4,709 worth of merchandise ...
Once again, Frito-Lay has launched its annual Super Bowl contest, where freelance advertisers direct and submit their own Doritos ads. Fans vote online for their favorites, which will get aired during the game. If one of those ads manages to score the top spot on the USA Today Facebook Super ...
The 2008 Kia Optima is among the vehicles affected by the recall. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Kia has announced the recall of nearly 146,000 vehicles with faulty airbag systems. The models affected are the 2006-2008 Kia Optima and the 2007-2008 Kia Rondo. Due to a flawed spring system that may ...
More and more companies are adopting gay-friendly policies. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — For the first time ever, all 100 firms on Fortune’s Best Companies To Work For list this year have non-discrimination policies that include sexual orientation.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Eastman Kodak, the once mighty icon of the photography industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday. Kodak said it has obtained $950 million in financing from Citibank to maintain operations. The company said the credit facility is still subject to court approval. Kodak said it ...
Google is playing a risky game of monopoly as it leverages its search industry dominance to jump-start its products in other fields, like social networking. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — There’s nothing illegal about being so big that you dominate a market.
The recall involves turbocharged 2007 through 2011 Mini cars and SUVs, including the Mini Cooper S. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — BMW is recalling 89,000 Mini Coopers in the United States for the same sort of problem that led to earlier recalls of BMW and Rolls-Royce luxury cars.
