Juliet Mann looks at the lack of women in the boardroom and meets UK female CEO and mother of nine, Helena Morrissey.
During the mortgage meltdown in 2008, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel quipped that you should "never allow a crisis to go to waste." He was referring to the Obama administration's policy goals, but it's not a bad maxim for investors.
You'd think that 2009 would have been a great year for telecom stocks, right?
A spate of suicides at France Telecom has put the spotlight on workplace stress and the devastating impact it can have on employees.
France Telecom, which faces a political storm over a spate of employee suicides, on Monday appointed Stephane Richard, a former top aide of France's economy minister, as deputy chief executive of the telecoms group.
Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom on Tuesday said they wanted to merge their British mobile-phone units T-Mobile UK and Orange UK to create a market leader better able to compete with two remaining big rivals.
With its record $1.45 billion fine levied against Intel for allegedly anticompetitive activities, the European Commission -- the executive arm of the European Union -- is again showing its appetite for taking on and punishing big American companies.
An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.
European stocks ended higher Wednesday, reversing some of the previous day's sharp losses as investors snapped up beaten-down shares and upbeat comments from Nokia helped boost telecoms shares.
Business 2.0: Warner Music the Remixupdated: Mon May 01 2006 13:09:00
The lights were dim. Scented white candles guttered and glowed, arrayed around a towering arrangement of white flowers that were themselves encircled by chairs draped in white linens. Madonna was i...
(Business 2.0 Magazine) - The lights were dim. Scented white candles guttered and glowed, arrayed around a towering arrangement of white flowers that were themselves encircled by chairs draped in white linens. Madonna was in the house.
Vodafone Group on Monday said it will slash as much as $ 49 billion in goodwill due to slowing growth in Germany and other top markets.
Throughout the world, Residential Internet access is usually sold as part of a bundle: To get fast, always-on service, a customer first has to purchase a local telephone line or sign up for cable T...
European markets slipped lower on Thursday, hurt by lowered outlooks from France Telecom and Alcatel as well as concerns about corporate health across the Atlantic.
France Telecom on Wednesday agreed to buy 80% of Amena, Spain's third-largest mobile operator, for 6.4 billion euros ( $7.7 billion ) in cash.
French Finance Minister Herve Gaymard has resigned over his handling of a luxury housing scandal.
Companies from around the world have been at the forefront of the aid effort that has followed last month's tsunami disaster.
Pharmaceutical heavyweights knocked European shares from 2-1/2 year highs Friday after AstraZeneca and U.S. industry leader Pfizer announced setbacks for key drug hopes.
The French government is to sell a 9.6 percent stake in telecoms operator France Telecom to help cut public debt, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.
The chief executive officer of French mobile phone giant Orange, Sol Trujillo, has unexpectedly resigned after just 13 months in the job, the company says.
Sliding technology and media stocks knocked European blue-chips to three-week lows on Wednesday, amid concern that company profits have reached a plateau.
We must restore investor confidence in corporate America. It's time for boards to wake up and rein in overpaid cowboy CEOs. Companies should be run for the benefit of the ordinary shareholder. Soun...
Money Magazine: Bernstein's new bullupdated: Wed Jan 22 2003 10:08:00
Lisa Shalett has Sanford C. Bernstein blood coursing through her veins. That is, she's a value investor through and through, in the most Benjamin Graham way.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's 100-decibel chief executive, delivered a contrite pledge to Europe recently. Speaking to 2,500 attendees at the CeBIT technology exhibition in Hanover, Germany, last mont...
The 21st Century, just four months old, has already seen its share of big gambles: a mammoth tax-cut package, a maverick campaign-finance reform bill, and a CD featuring the vocal stylings of Kathi...
Nobody could accuse CellPoint of underselling itself. The British-based firm claims to be the "only telecommunications company in the world today" that offers "commercially proven digital cellular-...
Psst. Wanna buy an Internet backbone? With American and European regulators circling, WorldCom appears ready to shed a ton of Sprint assets in order to win approval for the $115 billion merger of t...
In Europe the fun's about to begin. No, I'm not referring to the summer vacation season when everyone loads up the car and heads off to the south of France. I'm talking about something a bit more c...
Alan Jacobs rattles off the list of investments in his Internet startup: There's $15 million from Freeserve, Britain's popular Internet service provider; $7.5 million from a subsidiary of the Natio...
In July, Sprint fired the opening salvo in the latest long-distance price war, offering calls for 5 cents a minute. That move has fueled a rivalry as heated as any World Wrestling Federation-style ...
The "Asian contagion" has left stocks in emerging markets looking sickly, yet one equity continues to excite the Street--and hold promise for adventurous souls: Telebras, the Brazilian phone compan...
In an industry teeming with matchmakers and rumormongers, Sprint has been overlooked. In the past year, GTE, British Telecom, and eventual winner WorldCom have made eye-popping plays for MCI, and S...
NAFTA is in the bag, the Bolsa beckons, and the best buy for many a Gringo investor looks like Telefonos de Mexico. Small wonder: A backlog of 450,000 potential customers for phone service south of...
THROUGHOUT his campaign, President-elect Bill Clinton called for a long-term, systematic plan to revive the U.S. economy. He proposed forging a partnership between government and industry, upgradin...
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