Customers have a habit of slipping through your fingers when, instead of offering innovative products, you seek to keep them locked into old ones. That is a pricey lesson Oracle is learning.
By Dhanya Ann Thoppil BANGALORE -- Satyam Computer Services Ltd. said Friday it agreed to acquire an about 15% stake in Dion Global Solutions Ltd., marking the software exporter's first acquisition since it started recovering form one of ...
Oracle Corp. agreed to acquire online-software maker Taleo Corp. for $1.9 billion, its second such acquisition in recent months and the latest sign that the software industry's old guard is embracing a newer model.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Arch Coal Inc.’s fourth-quarter profit rose 48% on sharply higher sales prices and revenue, as well as improved margins.
TOKYO—Japan's two biggest brewers forecast solid profit growth for 2012 even as one posted weak earnings for last year, in a sign that a recent rush of overseas mergers and acquisitions will soon start boosting their bottom lines.
Ralph Lauren (RL: NYSE) By Needham & Co. ($157.07, Feb. 8, 2012) Ralph Lauren represents a quality luxury-goods manufacturer and retailer trading with long-term growth fueled by successfully integrating recent Asian acquisitions.
When Diamond Foods Inc. bought Pop Secret from General Mills Inc. in 2008, Chief Executive Michael J. Mendes called several hundred employees together at the nut company's offices in rural Stockton, Calif., and laid out his vision for ...
NEW DELHI – Indian online retailer Flipkart.com isn't worried about potential competition from Amazon.com and plans to expand into digital music distribution as it strives to reach $1 billion in sales by the end of 2014, co-founder Binny ...
BANGALORE -- Satyam Computer Services Ltd. said Friday it agreed to acquire an about 15% stake in Dion Global Solutions Ltd., marking the software exporter's first acquisition since it started recovering form one of India's worst ever ...
Thomson Reuters Corp. swung to a loss in the fourth quarter due to a $3 billion goodwill write-down related to its financial-services division, the latest evidence of the struggles following Thomson Corp.'s $17 billion acquisition of ...
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Among the stocks that could see active trade in Fridayday’s session are LinkedIn Corp.,True Religion Apparel Inc. and LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.
Amid the global furor surrounding executive compensation, Rio Tinto's bosses are voluntarily giving it up and taking responsibility for a botched deal the company is still paying dearly for.
Rio Tinto's $8.9 billion write-down on its Alcan aluminum division casts a pall over the struggling aluminum sector and offers a cautionary tale to mining companies contemplating big buys, the most significant being Glencore International ...
Diamond Foods Inc. fired its chief executive and chief financial officer, and said it would restate financial results for two years, after an internal probe found it had wrongly accounted for payments to walnut growers.