General Mills (GIS) announced that earnings fell by 0.2% though sales were 13% higher. The company earned $391.5 million, or 58 cents per share, for the fiscal quarter that ended on February 26, versus $392.1 million, or 59 cents per share in the same period last year. Adjusted earnings were 55 cents versus 56 cents, ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:55

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ?DividendRank? report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider?s view of the business, and presumably the only reason an insider ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

Pro bike racer Tim Johnson said he obeyed every stop sign during his 510-mile bicycle ride from to D.C., which began last Friday and ended Tuesday afternoon. Alongside 30 other cyclists, Johnson rode to raise money for the advocacy group Bikes Belong, and to improve the often-strained relations between cyclists and motorists. ?All it takes ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

Marvel Comics unveiled a new 3D comic book technology at South By Southwest last week. Included here is a video of the demo that you have to watch to really understand. Using the Marvel iPhone or iPad app, you "view" the printed page, but the characters on your page come to life in 3D.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

Gold is much higher than can be explained by money creation, and it's been there for some time. And it's done that a few times before. Why?

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

This article originally appeared in the Apr. 9, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. To help quell deep conservative misgivings, Mitt Romney must tackle health care in a major address. His stubborn, bewildering unwillingness to disavow RomneyCare's Obama-like individual mandate in Massachusetts makes many Republicans suspicious: Does he really have the will to repeal the President's ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

Marketing leaders including Cam Balzer, CMO, Threadless; Jamie DePeau, CMO, Financial; Drew Koven, chief of marketing and digital commerce, Melissa & Doug; Dick Lynch, chief global brand officer, Popeye's; Tony Pace, global CMO, FAF; Jeff Rayner, VP-marketing and investor communications solutions, Broadridge Financial; and Mary Willis, executive VP and CMO, Oppenheimer Funds gathered for cocktails, ...

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This article originally appeared in the Apr. 9, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. If you haven't read the bestselling, superb biography and inspiring business book, , by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, $35), do so. asked Isaacson to write it and urged friends and foes to cooperate with the undertaking. Jobs never asked to read ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25

Large numbers of whistleblowers overseas are reporting fraud, corruption and other corporate wrongdoing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower program for two reasons: The SEC, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act, has set up a whistleblower program that offers strong financial incentives to blow the whistle (rewards of up to 30 percent of ...

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This article originally appeared in the Apr. 9, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine. The 747 made its maiden flight in 1969. The 43-year-old jumbo jet design still whisks us across oceans and will, I expect, make it to a half-century of service. Does this prove that technological progress has slowed down? Put another way, do ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 20:25