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Apple director, ex-auto executive York dies

AP News 12 hours ago

Jerome York, Apple director, auto industry reformer and Kerkorian adviser dies at 71 Jerome York, an Apple Inc. board member and a financial wizard credited with turning around Chrysler and IBM, died Thursday of a brain aneurysm. He was 71. He died ...

Toyota, Lexus slip in key dependability study

Reuters US Online Report Business News 19 hours ago

DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota and its luxury Lexus brand slipped for the second consecutive year in an influential vehicle dependability study released on Thursday. Toyota Motor Corp's <7203.T> Lexus fell to fourth in the J.D. Power and Associates Vehicle Dependability Study. Lexus ...

Apple board member York hospitalized: source

Reuters US Online Report Business News 19 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc <AAPL.O> board member Jerry York was hospitalized on Wednesday near his home in Detroit after suffering a collapse, a person familiar with the matter said. Details on York's condition were not immediately available. Jerry York once ...

Porsche takes top spot in dependability study

AP News 20 hours ago

Porsche leaps to top of closely watched dependability study; Toyota loses ground to rivals Porsche shot to the top of a closely watched study of long-term vehicle dependability, overtaking U.S. and Japanese rivals, J.D. Power and Associates said Thursday. The German sports ...

Japan Britain Nissan

AP News yesterday

In this March 15, 2010 photo, Nissan Motors Co. Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga speaks with a background of the automaker's "Leaf" zero-emission electric vehicle during a press conference with other executives of Japanese automakers, Fuji Heavy Industries and Tokyo Electric Power ...

New CFO says GM has chance to make 2010 profit

AP News yesterday

New CFO says General Motors has reasonable chance to make money in 2010 If the economy cooperates and auto sales recover a bit, General Motors Co. has a reasonable chance of turning a full-year profit in 2010, its new chief financial officer ...

Ford Motor Co. shares hit five-year high

AP News yesterday

Shares of Ford Motor Co. continue steady rise, hit highest price in 5 years Shares of Ford Motor Co. surged to a five-year high Wednesday after a ratings agency upgraded the automaker's debt and said Ford has the potential to improve its ...

The quest for energy solutions

Stockhouse yesterday

The essential role of private enterprise After a great deal of hype and hope, the Copenhagen climate summit produced no more than a vague promise to continue to work together. The only real point of consensus was to agree to meet again ...

GM CFO

AP News yesterday

In this undated photo provided by General Motors Co., GM CFO Chris Liddell is shown. Liddell, at his first meeting with reporters in Detroit on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, said the automaker is making money in Brazil and China, in the middle ...

Porsche cuts debt, forecasts loss this year

AFP Global Edition yesterday

The German luxury car maker Porsche said on Wednesday that has paid down nearly half its mountain of debt but that it expects to suffer a net loss in its current fiscal year. Porsche turned a profit in the first six months ...

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