Business Pundit

Image: All Proactive Happy New Year! To ring in 2010, we’ve listed 25 new year’s quotes, sayings, and toasts to help you bless the incoming year (and decade): 1. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the… Read more

AT&T has canceled its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, becoming the third company after P&G and Accenture to do so. Bloomberg has more: “We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well,” Michael Coe, a spokesman for… Read more

Trucking company YRC Worldwide has narrowly avoided bankruptcy by exchanging $470 million in debt for stock and deferring about $19 million in loan interest and fees for the fourth quarter. Reuters has the scoop: U.S. trucking giant YRC… Read more

Fox wants to increase rates to Time Warner for channels including Speed Channel, FX, SportSouth, and more. Time Warner and Fox have been negotiating new retransmission fees (rates) for months, but are at an impasse. Fox will make the cable… Read more

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Between Madoff-style scams, buyouts, recalls, and sweeping changes in the American economic landscape, 2009 left the average business aficionado agape. Frankly, I’m glad it’s expiring. Nothing but up from here, right? (Stated with crossed… Read more

Share   As 2009 winds to a close, time has once again come to make your new year’s resolutions. If personal finance is important to you, you undoubtedly wish to set financial goals for yourself in 2010. Even the most money-conscious among us… Read more

One reason Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went through the security line undetected was that nobody saw the bomb in his underwear. As a result, some airports, including all Dutch airports with US-bound flights, and Chicago’s O’Hare airport, will start… Read more

Image: EcoFriendly Tips Energy-saving lightbulbs may reduce carbon output, but there’s something twice as efficient in the works: Wallpaper. A Welsh startup has received more than $500,000 from the UK government-backed Carbon Trust to produce… Read more

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While not most business travelers live out of suitcases George Clooney style, we still do have to travel several times a year when conference calls and Webex just don’t cut the mustard. Traveling around the clock, attending conferences, meeting… Read more

Share In the U.S., our dependence on oil not only makes for wealthy oil companies, it also supports our federal, state and local governments. Gas taxes add up quickly and some areas of the country are taxed more heavily than others. However,… Read more

Remember Jared Fogle, the man who slimmed down eating only Subway food? Now Taco Bell has its own weight-loss marketing weapon, “Christine,” who lost 54 lbs in 2 years by eating Taco Bell’s Fresco menu items. She is now featured as the star of… Read more

If you have always wanted a new Saturn, Pontiac, or Saab, this could be your week. Until January 4, GM will be liquidating its discontinued brands, some for almost 50% off. StreetInsider has more: General Motors Co. needs to move large… Read more