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- Workers learn to talk back
BOMBAY, India – Junk the fake accent, young workers in India's booming outsourcing industry are being told, and instead speak up, speak clearly and get to the point.
- Consumer numbers hint at slowing economy
WASHINGTON – Consumers, battered by surging gasoline prices and rising interest rates, cut back sharply on their spending in May, providing further evidence suggesting the economy is slowing.
- Qualcomm raises 3rd-quarter earnings outlook
Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technology and the second-largest maker of chips for cell phones in the world, raised its earnings forecast for the third quarter, saying that consumer demand had been higher than expected for cell phones that can browse the Web, send video and download music.
- BUSINESS BRIEFING
Best Buy profit jumps 38%
Best Buy Co. Inc., the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer, said that cost-cutting and sales of big-ticket items powered a fiscal first-quarter profit increase of nearly 38 percent. Its shares jumped more than 5 percent.
- On the move
- Judge OK's Northwest's deals with pilots, baggage handlers
NEW YORK – A bankruptcy court yesterday approved nearly $550 million in concessions between Northwest Airlines and two of its unions representing pilots, baggage handlers and ground workers.
- EBay adds phone link to its site
EBay said yesterday that sellers on its auction site will be able to add a link to their listings that will let potential buyers reach them through Skype, the Internet phone service.
- News Corp. eyes search engine link for MySpace
CHICAGO – News Corp. could let one of the larger Web search engines, like Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. or Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, take over the search function on popular social networking site MySpace.com, a News Corp. executive said yesterday.
- Williams Cos. to settle lawsuits
Williams Cos., the biggest U.S. natural-gas transporter, agreed to settle for $290 million class-action lawsuits by shareholders accusing the company of inflating the value of telecommunications and energy-trading businesses.
- Photo: Changing the rules
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