Business

Twitter users not so social after all

Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:47

Twitter may be a fast-growing social network, but most of its 50 million accounts merely follow other users rather than posting their own messages.

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Airline stocks take off

Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:47

Airline stocks rallied Wednesday, riding a wave of investor sentiment that 2010 is shaping into a profitable year for the industry, experts say.

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Royal Dutch Shell halts gasoline sales to Iran

Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:47

Royal Dutch Shell has stopped selling gasoline to Iran, the company confirmed Wednesday, adding to a list of oil giants that have stopped sales after a threat of future U.S. sanctions.

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Citi, AIG, Fannie and Freddie: The Not Fab 4

Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:47

Investors had a funny way of commemorating the first anniversary of the market's bottom on Tuesday. They rewarded some of the stocks responsible for most of the problems in the first place.

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Can the Toyota Way survive Toyota's ways?

Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:47

In the 1950s, a Toyota engineer named Taiichi Ohno, just back from visiting the United States, where he was wowed by its supermarkets, began to think about how he could use what he saw as a way to run a factory. He obsessed over the idea of eliminating waste, of avoiding inventory buildup, of empowering workers to follow instructions meticulously and of aiming to continually improve.

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CEO departures highest since Sept. 2008

Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:47

The number of chief executives who left their posts surged in February to the highest level since September 2008, when the economy was rocked by the financial crisis.