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A slowdown in mergers and acquisitions in the retail and consumer sector is expected to continue into 2009, an industry survey has found.

Formerly with Intuit Inc., Sudlow will be responsible for all product development, engineering and quality-assurance activities as Xactly scales its product- development efforts to deliver the market's broadest ...

AUSTRALIA'S manufacturing sector continues to struggle with high interest rates and an uncertain global outlook, a survey says.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has launched a unique educational community initiative to benefit academically talented African-American high school juniors.

Not everyone has the financial ability to own and rent out multiple houses for extra income.

Chief excecutive optimism about the U.S. economy plunged to a 16-year low in the first quarter.

Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging ...

Open source software advocates like to point to OpenOffice.org as a viable alternative to Microsoft Office.

A former partner at Ernst & Young LLP and an investment banker were accused of insider trading related to a string of deals, including the 2006 buyout of Freescale Semiconductor led by Blackstone Group, federal ...

May 28, 2008, 20 :00 UTC [ Thanks to Andrew Ziem for this link. ] "Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated.

Los Angeles-based Abraxis BioScience said today that it has named David O'Toole as the firm's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

LESS than half of Australia's privately-held businesses take precautions against fraud - an activity that costs firms billions of dollars each year worldwide, a new survey has found.

Nearly 4000 secured debenture investors in Lombard Finance and Investments Ltd are likely to receive less than half of their $111 million investment, and no interest, receivers said.

A Milwaukee man and woman tried to scam the IRS by claiming they worked at a Catholic non-profit group.

A survey has found the power generation sector continues to struggle to make investment decisions because of uncertainty over the future emissions trading scheme.

Leonard Cherry, owner of demolition services and recycled aggregates provider Cherry , has been named as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 Award in the Houston & Gulf Coast Area.

Think telemarketer. Except, it's much worse because you can't avoid this call. Instead, when you get one, it's time to pay up, because the bet you placed with borrowed money is eating itself.

Troubled French bank Societe Generale SA will publish two related reports Friday into what went wrong during a multi-billion-dollar trading scandal uncovered in January.

Shares of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. tumbled on Thursday after the tax-return preparer said it missed its 2008 targets and cut its outlook.

Microsoft's support for the OpenDocument Format could mean greater opportunities for software makers already using the format, observers said Thursday.