EBay Inc. plans to spin off its Internet communications service Skype through an initial public offering. ...more

April 15, 2009

Verizon Wireless completed its $5.9 billion purchase of Alltel Wireless on Friday, merging two cellular phone companies that are significant in the South. ...more

January 10, 2009

Verizon Wireless completed its $5.9 billion purchase of Alltel Wireless today, merging two significant cellular phone companies in the South. ...more

January 9, 2009

On the face of it, 2009 shapes up as a "new" season for Chris Dyson. There's Dyson Racing's new relationship with Mazda announced last week that will see the team running a brace of LMP2 Lola B08/86-Mazda MZR-Rs in the 2009 American Le Mans Series; make that two LMP2 Lola B08/86-Mazda MZR-Rs sponsored by BP Petroleum. Then there's the team's new headquarters facility. It's still in Poughkeepsie, NY but it's more than double the size of the facility Dyson Racing has utilized for the better part of the past two decades. ...more

December 24, 2008

Walter Industries, a leading coal producer, has boosted its production and supply of coal with the acquisition of a coal-mining company in Alabama. ...more

September 9, 2008

Tampa-based Walter Industries Inc. said this morning that it has bought a coal producer in Alabama for $23.5 million. ...more

September 8, 2008

Now that a Belgian brewer has conquered the King of Beers, it wants to take Budweiser global. ...more

July 15, 2008