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A look at recent tech-industry earnings
BusinessWeek 19: EBay Inc. says fourth-quarter revenue rose 5 percent, as the healthy holiday shopping season bolstered growth in its online marketplace and PayPal … |
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Daniel Loeb, founder of hedge fund Third Point, announced he has taken a stake in shipping giant FedEx and recently talked to its CEO. More: continued here
About 16,000 Christmas trees are headed for military bases around the country beginning Tuesday – hundreds of them donated by Wisconsin growers. Six northeastern Wisconsin growers loaded a FedEx van Monday with about 250 balsam firs, Douglas firs, white pines and other evergreens at Lambeau Field. Those trees are headed for Fort Campbell, a sprawling…
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A gunman walked into a southwest suburban FedEx shipping facility Thursday morning yelling for his wife, then fired several shots that sent panicked employees fleeing before he fatally shot himself, police said.Nobody else was injured in the Bedford Park shooting. The shooter, identified as 28-year-old Benyamin Robinson of Chicago, was found dead in a vehicle…
By Maria Kiselyova and Olga Sichkar MOSCOW (Reuters) – Express delivery companies DHL and FedEx said on Thursday they had suspended foreign shipments to individual customers in Russia because of stricter customs procedures, making it harder for internet users to buy goods from abroad. President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign late last year to "put…
SiliconBeat EBay becomes a little less white, a little less maleSiliconBeatEBay, like other Silicon Valley firms, is mostly white and male. According to an update on its workforce demographics, it's becoming a less so. With 33,000 employees worldwide, the company boosted in the past year the percentage of women at the firm to …EBay Takes…