As Hurricane Sandy batters the East Coast, some experts are saying that power outages could affect 60 million people, some for a week or more. After years of living and working near the Jersey Shore where hurricanes and nor’easters are an annual occurrence,...

Weatherford International Ltd. provides equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells worldwide. It offers artificial lift systems, which include reciprocating rod lift systems,...

Kirby Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides marine transportation and diesel engine services primarily in the United States. Its Marine Transportation segment provides transportation services for the inland and coastal markets. This segment...

Jim Cramer might be a lot of things, but he is incredibly insightful some of the time. He did a segment on his show a few years ago where he cracked open a digital device. It could have been an iPhone or a laptop, I don’t remember, but I remember the...

By Chris Burns It seems strange that it’s all the way over here in Chicago that the Higgs boson “God particle” may have been successfully detected when its CERN, halfway across the world, that’s most famous for attempting to detect it. As it...

By Ben Kersey Yesterday we learned of the arrests of five members of hacker group LulzSec, seemingly brought down by their own leader working in tandem with the FBI. Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka “Sabu”, was arrested back in June 2011 and is thought...

Google has consolidated its various online content stores into a single online destination. Google Play will be Google’s place to go to get movies, ebooks, music and Android apps. The new destination has drawn comparisons to Apple’s iTunes....

There’s zero question that Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android operating system is top dog right now. It lays claim to 52.3% of the smartphone market – more than double its marketshare in 2010. But Android’s growth could soon hit a bump in the...

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is turning up the volume in its Android battle with Apple ((Nasdaq: AAPL) by launching Google Music – partnering with three of the four major labels, and eventually offering more than 13 million songs. Music industry veteran,...