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Lending Club: What Types of Loans Are Available to Borrowers
If you’re hoping to get an unsecured loan or a personal loan, Lending Club might be a great way to get a better interest rate than what you would have gotten from a bank. Many have also used Lending Club loans as consolidation loans... More of this article »
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) Wins $16 Billion in Equipment and Service Deals
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) earned more than $16.1 billion in equipment and service deals during the first three days of the Farnborough Air Show as industry demand rebounds. Out of the $16 billion total, $3 billion came via an... More of this article »
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) Completes $750 Million Spectrum Clearing Project
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) has announced that it has completed a five-year, $50 million project to clear wireless spectrum for the national broadband Internet plan. Sprint said that it had more than 1,000 engineers, technicians, tower... More of this article »
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) To Invest in Game Streaming Service
Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC)’s venture capital arm, Intel Capital, is making a play in cloud-based gaming through an investment Gaikai, a service which plans to stream games over the Internet beginning this summer. Gaikai’s... More of this article »
BP (NYSE: BP) To Sell $7 Billion in Assets to Apache Corp (NYSE:APA)
BP (NYSE: BP) has agreed to sell $7 billion worth of oil and natural gas fields in the United States and abroad to Apache Corp (NYSE: APA) in its largest-move to date to raise money to pay for reparations for the Gulf of Mexico oil... More of this article »
Boeing (NYSE: BA) Announces Major Orders from Emirates Airlines and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE)
Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced on Monday that it received two major orders from Emirates Airlines and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), marking the first of many announcements from the Farnborough International Air Show this week. Emirates,... More of this article »
How to Get Started investing with Lending Club
Lending Club is the largest peer to peer lending company in the United States in terms of new loan origination on a monthly basis. Many investors have turned to Lending Club as a way to invest without putting money into stocks or bonds.... More of this article »
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) To Build “Dozens More” Retail Stores
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) opened four brick-and-mortar stores during the last year and now the Redmond-based software company hopes to build out the initiative by opening a number of new retail locations. Last week, at Microsoft’s... More of this article »
Audible.com Releases iPod, iPhone and iPad Application
If you enjoy listening to audio books, you probably have some familiar with Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon.com which has a virtual monopoly in the sale of digital audio books. Users have been able to play audible content on iOS devices,... More of this article »
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) Names New European Head
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) has appointed Stephen Odell, former CEO of Volvo, as the new head of Ford’s European business. Current European head John Fleming, who will be succeeded by Odell, will shift focus manage the company’s manufacturing... More of this article »
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile Merger Rumors Return After Comments from Sprint CEO
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile may be moving toward a merger as Sprint builds out its 4G network, said the Financial Times suggests in an article published Tuesday. According to the report, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse told the... More of this article »
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) Delays 2011 Ford Fiesta Deliveries
Shipments of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F)’s 2011 Ford Fiesta to U.S. dealerships have been delayed by 10 to 14 days because of storm-damaged rail lines. Ford spokeswoman Angie Kozleski said that key rail lines in northern Mexico were... More of this article »
Union Pension Fund Sues Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) Over Off-Label Marketing
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) is being sued by a union pension fund which claims that the company’s board of directors ignored indications that the drug manufacturer was playing fast and loose with off-label marketing. The fund blames the company’s... More of this article »
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) Set to Release Q2 Earnings on Friday
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) will report its second quarter earnings before the U.S. stock exchanges open on Friday, July 16th. The conglomerate reporter 1st quarter earnings of $2.3 billion ($0.21 earnings per share) down 18% compared... More of this article »
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) Receives Loan Guarantee From U.K. Government
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) has received a 360 million GBP loan guarantee from the U.K. government for the company’s 450 million GBP European Investment Bank loan, as part of the company’s 1.5 billion GDP British investment plan over... More of this article »
Microsoft Corp CEO Touts New Windows-Based Apple iPad Competitors (AAPL, MSFT)
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer touted new Windows tablet devices from more than a dozen manufacturers at a conference on Monday, suggesting that the Redmond-based software giant is eager to counteract the growth of Apple’s... More of this article »
NTP Sues Microsoft, Google, Apple and Others Over Mobile Phone Patents
NTP said on Thursday that it had filed patent infringement lawsuits against several of the world’s top mobile phone manufactures including Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Motorola (NYSE: MOT),... More of this article »
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) To Give Consumers “Distraction Free” Mode While Driving
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) will give its customers the ability to turn off features of its “Sync” communication system in the form of a “do not disturb” status which will turn off capabilities “that are not relevant to... More of this article »
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes Store Accounts Hacked by Vietnamese Developer
A rogue Vietnamese developer, Thuat Ngyugen, has reportedly hacked into Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iTunes accounts and gamed the “Books” category of the App Store in an effort to artificially inflate the ratings and sales for his book... More of this article »
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Fixes YouTube Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has fixed a flaw on YouTube which allowed hackers to bombard users with pop-up messages and redirect unsuspecting users to adult websites. Malfeasants placed their carefully-crafted code into the comments section... More of this article »
Developer Brings Adobe’s Flash (NASDAQ: ADBE) to the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad
A developer has successfully gotten a mobile version of Adobe’s (NASDAQ:ADBE) Flash technology working on the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad and iPhone. In order to make use of the newly hacked-up version of Flash for the iPad, you’ll... More of this article »
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) Begins Figo Exports to South Africa
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) announced on Monday that it has set aside 1,200 of its Figo compact cars to be exported from India to South Africa, suggesting that India is an increasingly important part of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F)’s global... More of this article »
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT)’s Internet Explorer Usage Share Increases
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT)’s Internet Explorer has reversed a multi-year decline in its browser usage, at least for the month of June. Internet Explorer’s usage increased from 59.8% to 60.3% according to new statistics from... More of this article »