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MySpace's Fall from Favor Threatens Deal with Google In 2006, which is ancient history in the online social network world, Wharton marketing professor David Bell told Knowledge@Wharton that "there is a fad or a fashion component to all these networks. ...

Railroads May Rebound, but They Still Face Fundamental Challenges Announcing his deal to buy the 77% of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad that his company does not already own, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett described it as "a huge bet and one that I'm very happy to make, but ...

How Luck and Savvy Helped Ford Improve Products and Profit Ford was the only American automaker that did not get a boost from U.S. taxpayers as the economy was still looking for the bottom earlier this year. Now, Ford looks like a world beater...

Mutual Funds, Fiduciary Duty and Fairness A case filed five years ago by three shareholders in the Oakmark Funds, run by Chicago-based Harris Associates, will get its day in court Monday when the U.S...

China's Local Private Equity Market Gets a New Boost Renminbi (RMB) funds -- private equity funds raised in China's local currency -- have been in fashion of late...

Goal: More Milk with Fewer Cows Is drinking organic milk from small farms kinder to the environment...

Big Banks Offer Size and Reassurance, Despite their Shortcomings Why don't big banks that "were recently on the verge of collapse" have to struggle to retain customers...

Why India's Garment Factory Boom Produces Jobs With Little Security India has sewn its way toward a more reliable income for nearly 35 million garment industry workers in recent years. Agricultural laborers left the fields to work in factories that sprouted as the economy gained steam...

Can the New Version of Windows Undo the Damage of the Last? The introduction of Windows 7 today is not a big deal for Microsoft. It's a huge and critical deal...

At Comcast, the Art of the Deal Drives Movement of TV Content to the Web Comcast, the largest cable-television provider in the U.S., tells its hometown newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, that it has lined up 24 cable channels to participate in a service that will allow its subscribers to...

A New Book Offers an Insider's View of the Financial Crisis The inside stories about efforts by government officials and top financial leaders to prevent the collapse of the financial system are emerging with the publication today of New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin's book, Too Big to Fai...

Walmart Shakes Up Another Sector with Price Cuts The opening of a big Walmart store nearby has always long been bad news for local retailers...

Making Sense of the Noise from Economic Indicators The economic indicator du jour is a higher-than-expected 0.7% increase in industrial production for the month of September, the third-straight monthly increase. So the economy is getting better, right?...

An Animal Rights Group Criticizes IHOP. Do Consumers Care? IHOP -- the International House of Pancakes -- is the latest restaurant chain to come under fire for the treatment of animals in their supply chain. So, we wondered, do consumers care...