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Chrysler earns first annual profit in more than a decade
Chrysler Groupearned its first annual profit as an independent company since 1997, a sign that the Detroit automaker is recovering from its bankruptcy reorganization and the conflicting strategies of its recent owners.
Chrysler said it earned $183...Tags: Sergio Marchionne, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Advertising, Bankruptcy, Companies and Corporations
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Chrysler finally has a mid-size contender
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBefore Chrysler's new 200, the company's mid-size car was on its deathbed. Last known as the Sebring, the third generation of this vehicle was roundly considered a mess. It was produced without compunction by Chrysler when the company was owned by...Tags: Fiat, Auto Trends, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Economy, Business and Finance, Honda
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Nicolas Hayek dies at 82; chairman of Swatch
Associated PressNicolas Hayek, chairman and former chief executive of the giant Swiss watch-manufacturing firm Swatch, who is credited with reinventing the country's industry in the 1980s by introducing radical cost-saving moves, has died. He was 82. Swatch Group said...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Science and Technology, Swiss Confederation, France, Siemens
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Hertz will rent electric Smart car fortwo
L.A. Times Tech BlogCar-rental giant Hertz Corp. said it planned to offer the Smart fortwo electric vehicle as part of a car-sharing program in three metropolitan areas starting later this month. Hertz will make the tiny vehicle -– a two-seater smaller than a...... -
Coulomb Technologies to install 4,600 electric vehicle charging stations
L.A. Times Tech BlogCalifornia will receive about a third of the 4,600 electric vehicle charging stations that Coulomb Technologies plans to install for free around the country. The company, based in Campbell, Calif., will immediately start setting up public and private... -
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To Cerberus Capital Management, the New York-based private equity firm that just bought Chrysler from DaimlerChrysler, congratulations and … what do you mean I'm being laid off? I don't even work for you guys!
So far, the company is off to a...Tags: Vehicles, Clubs and Associations, Defense, Lifestyle and Leisure, Firearms
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The allure of easy money to help promote a product
Movie executives routinely refuse to talk about their agreements to insert consumer products into films in exchange for hefty fees from advertisers, although they insist that commercial interests never take priority over artistic integrity. But with...Tags: Vehicles, Entertainment, Advertising, North Africa, Heineken International
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Searching for the Why of Buy
Times Staff WriterPictures of products danced in his head. There was an Apple iPod, then a black Aeron chair. A coffeepot by Capresso and a washing machine by Dyson. Christian Dior followed by Versace, Oakley, Honda, Evian and Louis Vuitton. Each icon of commercial...Tags: Science and Technology, Eyewear, Barbra Streisand, Coca-Cola Co., Al Pacino
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$78 million of red ink?
Times Staff WriterON an old studio lot outside London, a production crew began work on the movie "Sahara" in November 2003 by staging the crash of a vintage airplane. But when the film opened in theaters in April 2005, the sequence had been deleted. "In the context of the...Tags: Cinema Industry, Career and Workplace, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Steve Zahn
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The sport's gone from this wagon
IF you do any research on the new Dodge Caliber, you'll run into a curious example of duck speak, a kind of echo-chamber thinking to the effect that the Neon — the Schmoo-styled compact sedan that the Caliber replaces after more than a decade in...Tags: Vehicles, Gaming, Apple iPod, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, David Spade
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The dangers of private equity funds
Most Americans -- unless they read the daily financial press -- are probably not fully aware of the influence that private equity funds now have on business in the United States and on the economy as a whole. But perhaps it's time to start paying...Tags: Interior Policy, Science and Technology, Rod Stewart, Career and Workplace, Finance
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Achtung, Bel-Air
EUROPE is on a war footing. A walk around the sprawling Messe Frankfurt complex, home of the city's International Auto Show, reveals how deadly serious European regulators are about curbing greenhouse-gas emissions, at least relative to the laissez faire...Tags: Luxury Vehicles, Science and Technology, Honda, Volvo, Cadillac
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