Science news articles about 'investors'

(AP) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly has decided to lead a mutiny against Yahoo Inc.'s board in an attempt to pressure the directors into reviving negotiations to sell Yahoo to ...

(AP) -- Local investors are taking over Philadelphia's wireless Internet network and plan to offer access free to individuals and for a fee to area businesses.

The Russian space agency has sealed a deal with a private investor to build a Soyuz spacecraft specially for tourist hire and operational in 2011, a statement said Wednesday.

Yahoo Inc. said Monday it reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn that will put him and two of his nominees on an expanded board of directors.

The US financial sector meltdown is a mixed blessing for technology startups, making them seem solid bets in a shaky market but threatening long waits for investors accustomed to quick returns.

... of controversy and concern over the safety and overuse of drug-coated heart stents, physicians and investors attending a cardiology meeting next week will get a clearer look at how these devices are ...

Dynegy, a major owner of coal-burning power plants, has agreed to tell investors more about how global warming could affect its business, the New York State attorney general said.

... behavior after studying the demographics and financial transactions of 70,000 anonymous investors. The research will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Finance. "We found that ...

(AP) -- Apple Inc. investors will get an advisory vote on executive compensation, the company said Monday, reversing an earlier announcement in which Apple said the "say on pay" proposal failed to ...

... he returns this month, many say. Some Apple Inc. investors are advocating the unthinkable: Apple Inc. without ...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's new center-right government must find private investors for its majority stake in the planned Belene nuclear power plant or abandon the project, parliamentarians said on ...

An Internet search and advertising partnership that Yahoo Inc. struck with Microsoft Corp. last month has so far failed to inspire the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's investors.

... six draft national policy statements on energy and climate change policies tomorrow."What investors want is transparency, longevity and certainty – TLC – in policy regimes to mobilise capital," said ...

German software giant SAP said Wednesday that first quarter net profit fell 22 percent and disappointed investors as it delayed the launch of a new product for small- and medium-sized enterprises.

... panic and the burst of a bubble, to overestimating the risks of an investment. “Market investors’ relationships to their assets and shares are akin to love-hate relationships with our partners. Just ...