By spending $26 billion to buy the rest of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which already owns 23% of the company, says it sees a big future for railroads. But that future has been overdue for decades,

The automaker shows what can happen when luck and savvy are combined.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear a case involving a claim by shareholders in a mutual fund that the fees charged them by the fund managers are excessive and driven in part by conflicts of interest.

Blackstone wants one. So do Macquarie, KKR and a growing list of leading global investors. Renminbi funds -- private equity funds raised in China's local currency -- are coming into their own.

Understanding the economics behind milk production and other forms of intensive agriculture is essential if the world is going to feed itself in the future, notes veterinarian David Galligan.

General Motors' decision earlier this month to scrap its Saturn brand triggered frequent retellings of the many ways in which GM missed an opportunity to recast itself and the auto industry. But other manufacturers did adopt some of Saturn's innovations,

James Riady is the CEO of Lippo Group, one of Indonesia's largest conglomerates with annual revenues of some $3 billion. The Group, among the most active property developers in Southeast Asia, has expanded into China and Hong Kong and plans

Microsoft dipped its toe into retail waters this month by opening its first company store as a way to showcase the latest and greatest in PCs, Zunes and Xbox consoles. But computer companies aren't the only manufacturers moving into the

The electric car is real. It's here. And before long -- when curbside charging stations become as ubiquitous as parking meters -- it won't seem all that complicated, either. So says a man who has thrown his corporate reputation into

President Obama's recent move to funnel more credit to small businesses comes at a time when a fragile recovery appears to be underway in that sector. If Congress approves Obama's plan, the measures would enable community banks to borrow at

In a year when DVD sales are falling and studios are facing major shakeups in their executive ranks, the movie industry has at least one success story to cheer about: Netflix. Despite the recession, the Los Gatos, Calif.-based company continues

Last week, the Obama administration's "pay czar," Kenneth Feinberg, announced that the government will impose caps on compensation for the 25 highest-paid executives at seven companies that received "exceptional assistance" through the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- including American International

Why do consumers and corporations still put their trust in banks that were on the verge of collapse just a year ago?

The loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in India's garment industry because of the global financial crisis highlights the fact that the emerging economy's workers have few rights and lack the kind of support systems that help laborers in

With the launch today of the Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft hopes bad memories of Windows Vista will quickly fade.

Even while it is pursuing control of NBC Universal, Comcast is striking deals with cable channels to show their programs online.

A new book tells behind-the-scenes stories of the desperate efforts to avert the collapse of the financial system in the summer of 2008.

Retail giants Walmart and Amazon are waging a good old-fashioned price war. It's a costly -- but wise -- strategy for both sides, says a Wharton professor.

Five years ago, C.K. Prahalad published a book titled, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, in which he argues that multinational companies not only can make money selling to the world's poorest, but also that undertaking such efforts

Faint rumblings have begun in the social networking landscape. Facebook acquired smaller rival FriendFeed in August; Friendster, viewed as an also-ran in the U.S., has refocused its operations on the Asia-Pacific region; and News Corp., owner of MySpace, has reshuffled