Moneynews RSS FeedMon, 20 May 2013 11:19:52 EDTIn a case involving whistleblowers at Fidelity Investments, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether mutual fund employees are subject to the same whistleblower protections as workers at publicly traded companies.Mon, 20 May 2013 11:10:30 EDTWebsense Inc., a website-filtering company that is shifting into Internet security, will be acquired by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for about $906 million.Mon, 20 May 2013 10:30:56 EDTGoogle staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its Glass wearable computer during last week's developer conference.Mon, 20 May 2013 09:27:31 EDTBoeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner is poised to clear another hurdle in restoring its image as United Airlines, the only U.S. operator, resumes flights after the jet's battery flaws forced a three-month grounding.Mon, 20 May 2013 09:26:15 EDTYahoo Inc. said it is acquiring blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property with strong visitor traffic but little revenue.Mon, 20 May 2013 09:19:16 EDTCampbell Soup Co. reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings and raised its full-year forecast on improved sales, sending its shares up 2.5 percent in premarket trading.Mon, 20 May 2013 07:38:51 EDTActavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion which would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S.Mon, 20 May 2013 07:36:00 EDTChesapeake Energy Corp. said it hired Robert Douglas Lawler of rival Anadarko Petroleum Corp.as chief executive, filling the post vacated by co-founder Aubrey McClendon. Lawler, who is senior vice president of international and deep-water operations at Anadarko Petroleum,...Mon, 20 May 2013 07:27:15 EDTBritain's Vodafone has withdrawn from the running to provide a mobile service to fixed-line operator BT, two industry sources told Reuters, bringing to an end a nine-year partnership.Mon, 20 May 2013 07:21:31 EDTGeneral Electric Co.’s finance unit plans to return $6.5 billion in dividends to the parent company in 2013 as Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt pursues his plan to shrink the size of the business.Sun, 19 May 2013 15:41:28 EDTJamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country's biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether to let him keep both jobs.Sun, 19 May 2013 14:42:36 EDTYahoo's board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, a service that hosts 108 million blogs, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.Fri, 17 May 2013 16:14:37 EDTWells Fargo & Co., the biggest U.S. home lender, halted some foreclosure sales until it can understand new federal guidelines on seizures sent to the nation's large and mid-sized banks.Fri, 17 May 2013 15:51:00 EDTIt was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola.Fri, 17 May 2013 15:21:34 EDTA federal judge expressed concern that the U.S. scared off American International Group Inc. from joining a lawsuit by Maurice Hank Greenberg, its former chairman, challenging the insurer's 2008 federal bailout.Fri, 17 May 2013 13:13:55 EDTBloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent adviser on its privacy and data standards.Fri, 17 May 2013 12:46:32 EDTGeneral Motors Co., poised to rejoin the Standard Poor s 500 Index, topped its $33 initial public offering price for the first time in more than two years as the automaker prepares to introduce redesigned full-size pickups. GM rose 3.4 percent to $33.49 at 12:05 p.m. New...Fri, 17 May 2013 09:17:13 EDTInternet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters. Amazon will follow search giant Google, which attended another grilling by...Fri, 17 May 2013 08:51:10 EDTGoogle Inc.'s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday as a participant of an advisory group just days after U.K. lawmakers lambasted the Internet company's tax affairs.The meeting is a routine one and has been...Thu, 16 May 2013 21:04:50 EDTApple Inc., which holds $102 billion in cash and investments outside the U.S., will suggest changes to corporate-tax laws to encourage companies to bring more cash into the country.