Something big is about to go down in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 99 percent are preparing to Occupy Bank of America‘s corporate headquarters ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday. Members of the 99% Power Coalition say they’re expecting close to 1,000 people to arrive in Charlotte to protest B of A’s foreclosure [...]

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Here are your top business and financial news headlines for Friday, April 20, 2012: – Ford would build fifth car factory in eastern China – Dupont, Dow Chemical, and other chemical firms working with automakers after a German chemical plant explosion – Vincent Bollore could raise his stake in Vivendi to 5 percent – GE [...]

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This was no ordinary joy ride. A Boeing 787 took to the skies to tout its company when it “drew” the numbers “787″ followed by the Boeing logo in the skies over several thousand miles of North America. The etching of the letters and logo was spotted in the plane’s flight path plans. The flight [...]

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There used to be a time when we had a choice when it came to getting our news and information.  Nowadays, not so much. Take, for example, the fact that, in 1983, 90 percent of the American media was owned by 50 different companies. Today, on the other hand, that same 90 percent is owned [...]

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In a truly bizarre move, Federal Housing Finance Agency, the federal agency responsible for overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, filed lawsuits yesterday against 17 financial institutions in an attempt to recover billion-dollar-losses that resulted from risky, subprime mortgage loans. In the complaints, the FHFA says the lenders misrepresented the quality of the loans. “Based [...]

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Warren Buffett apparently has some spare change lying around as the billionaire has agreed to invest $5 billion in Bank of America, clearly an attempt to shore up the largest bank in the U.S. Shares of Bank of America stock rose 12.3 percent to $7.85 on the news, wiping out part of the stock’s losses [...]

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Image via Wikipedia It’s been just under two weeks since we told you about Topps’ journey into augmented reality with their new line of baseball cards. Now, General Electric has come out with a pretty amazing advertisement to promote its Smart Grid windmill technology. When you log onto the GE website, you can do try [...]

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