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This weekend in Barron's online: the annual listing of the top 30 corporate chiefs, a look at Deere, International Game Technology and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, as well as growth in Latin American airlines. Cover Story “World's Best CEOs” by Andrew Bary. Barron's offers up its annual listing of...

If your name isn't Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) or Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), don't bother trying to make a tablet. AppleInsider is reporting via the DigiTimes that traditional hardware companies, like Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Acer, Asus and others are leaving the tablet market next...

This morning, we learned that Nabors (NYSE: NBR) CEO Eugene, "Gene", Isenberg is leaving the company, to become Executive Chairman. Nothing wrong with that, the man is 81 years old, and wants to spend his remaining years not running a publicly traded company. Except when you factor in his...

News broke this morning that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) might be bringing its popular Kindle Fire to China, the world's largest country. When Amazon reported earnings earlier this week, investors punished shares, sending them down sharply. As gross margins fell, earnings fell short of expectations, and...

They may not be Santa Claus, but these two tech titans might be the next best thing. Yesterday we saw the release of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S, and last week Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced its new tablet, the Kindle Fire, along with three new versions of the already popular e-reader, the...

UPDATE: According to a report from All Things Digital, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is having a press conference next week in New York on September 28. Some are speculating it could be the long-awaited Amazon tablet, as it tries to compete with the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. This is an update to an...

What some thought was impossible just a few months ago now looks more likely than ever. There was a report out this morning by noted Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) bear Wedbush that the company could actually be acquired by, gasp, of all companies, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). In the note, Wedbush wrote, "Upon...

How can a space filled with tools, a 3D printer, and tinkerers spawn new business ecosystems, attract Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Founder Jeff Bezos to invest, and impact the economic viability of developing countries with new forms of government? In the U.S. and Europe, makerspaces (or as they are...

Is Amazon about to conquer a whole new market? There is a report in the Wall Street Journal this morning that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) could be launching a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) style service for e-books. If this is true, then Amazon is not just intent on killing Netflix, it may be intent on taking...

Yesterday I wrote about the iPad 2's dominance coming to an end thanks in part to the forthcoming Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) tablet, which many are expecting to be a monster hit, similar to its popular e-reader, the Kindle. Not so fast, my friend. BoyGeniusReport is out with an article today that...