Over the last few months, as Pepsi worked out its deal to buy its main bottlers, Coca-Cola said it wasn’t interested in such a deal. Well you can’t keep a good idea down and today Coke, which once liked to be known as “the real thing,” unveiled plans to buy the bottler’s North American...

By Jason Neely A 20 billion euro project is great, but not if it costs 31 billion to deliver. Most companies don’t walk away from deals that bad. They run. But Europe’s biggest and now most fraught defence collaboration, the A400M military transport plane, is no ordinary deal. European countries...

Palm Inc’s stock swooned this morning after the smartphone maker said it expects third-quarter and full-year revenue to be lower than expected because not enough people are buying its phones. In Palm’s exact words: Revenues for the quarter and full year are being impacted by slower than expected...

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