Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all pub... Read more...
Nordstrom announced it will buy HauteLook, a flash sale site, for $180 million in stock plus an additional three-year earnout of up to $90 million depending on performance. Flash sale sites, sometimes called private sales or online sample sales, offer huge discounts -- up to 75% -- on item... Read more...
A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was all it took to fleece taxpayers on a water-and-sewer financing deal in West Virginia. The secret conversation was part of a conspiracy stretching across the U.S. by Wall Street banks in the $2.8 trillion mun... Read more...