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Electronic Arts reboots Star Wars as free game
Online games, it seems, just want to be free. Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced that it will offer up substantial portions of its "Star Wars: The Old Republic" multi-player online game to players for free starting this fall. A premium version with...
Tags: Gaming, Star Wars (movie), Gaming Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sony Corp.
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Stock buybacks fall for second consecutive quarter
American companies are getting a bit hesitant about buying back their own stock. Share repurchases by large companies fell in the first three months of this year, the second consecutive quarter of declining buybacks, according to Standard & Poor’...
Tags: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, American International Group, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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SEC accuses Stiefel Laboratories of defrauding employee shareholders
Money & CompanyThe Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Stiefel Laboratories, a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, and the subsidiary’s former chief executive of defrauding employees and other shareholders by buying back the company’s private stock... -
Consumer Confidential: Toy firm fined; Hertz goes it alone
Money & CompanyHere's your throat-clearing Thursday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- Federal regulators aren't kidding around when it comes to toy safety. The Consumer Product Safety Commission slapped a $1.3-million fine on a toy company that sold... -
Amgen to buy back $5 billion in shares
Money & CompanyAmgen to use modified Dutch auction tender offer to buy back $5 billion in stock... -
Stock buybacks may not help the market much
Money & CompanyDon’t count on corporate stock buybacks to propel the equity market higher. Buyback activity among companies in the S&P 500 increased in the first three months of the year, the seventh straight quarterly rise, according to Standard & Poor’s.... -
News Corp. approves $5-billion stock buyback
Company TownWith its stock price being hammered by investors in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closing of its News of the World tabloid, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. approved a stock repurchase program totaling $5 billion. The...... -
The Morning Fix: Oprah to be CEO of OWN! Netflix raises prices! R.I.P. Sherwood Schwartz.
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before wondering if I'll remember who won the All-Star game two days from now. The Skinny: I always preferred Mary Ann to Ginger, but not Jan to Marsha. R.I.P. Sherwood Schwartz, who created two of the most...... -
Wells Fargo, KPMG reach $627-million settlement of lending suit
Money & CompanyThe legal fallout from high-risk, boom-era mortgage lending never stops, it seems -- the latest example being Wells Fargo & Co.'s $590-million proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit centering on controversial "Pick-a-Pay" loans issued by Oakland'... -
B of A shares drop again, but other banking stocks rise
Money & CompanyBofA shares drop again, while other banking stocks rise... -
Apple stock posts small loss as buyers move in after early drop
Money & CompanyKnee-jerk sellers of Apple Inc. shares late Wednesday probably are wishing they hadn’t. The stock, which fell to about $356 in after-hours trading Wednesday on news that founder Steve Jobs was stepping down as chief executive, never got that low....... -
His stock is cheap, so Warren Buffett will buy it
Money & CompanyBerkshire Hathaway Inc. announced that it will buy back stock simply because Buffett thinks it’s cheap....
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