Bay City News
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General Electric Co., whose Connecticut headquarters is about 35 minutes by car from the site of the Newtown school massacre, said it tightened rules against providing consumer financing to firearms retailers.
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General Motors Co., planning to invest $1.5 billion in North America this year, said it will spend $332 million at four factories to prepare for new, more fuel efficient engines and transmissions.
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Hemlock Semiconductor Corp., the largest U.S. provider of polysilicon, sued a unit of Solarworld AG, alleging it breached a contract to buy $83 million in material used to make solar cells.
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Tenaris SA, a producer of steel pipes for the oil and natural gas industry, will build its first U.S. seamless-pipe mill in Texas at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion.
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California’s Silicon Valley has always posed a certain challenge to urbanists. In their view, cities are critical for commerce and innovation.
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Rains in Texas have failed to refill water reservoirs for the state’s main rice-growing areas, prompting the first-ever restrictions on irrigation that may lead to the smallest planted acreage since the 1920s.
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Medtronic Inc. will lose its bid for a permanent injunction barring NuVasive Inc. from selling spinal surgery devices that were found to infringe patents held by a Medtronic unit, a federal judge in San Diego said in a tentative ruling.
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When Ruth Rooney moved in 2005 to a two-bedroom house in Vallejo, California, near Napa Valley’s famed wineries, the historic St. Vincent’s Hill neighborhood attracted young professionals and there were few vacancies.
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China’s drug market is primed for “explosive growth,” making its pharmaceutical companies attractive takeover targets for drugmakers about to lose patents on their most popular medicines, according to KPMG LLP.
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Brookstone Inc. , a retailer of items such as cordless air compressors, remote-control toy helicopters and massaging chairs, was sued for patent infringement by Baltimore-based manufacturer of specialty items.
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