These vehicles get no respect — but deserve it
Automakers can't guarantee success for a new car or truck, even after spending hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars on development, testing and market research.
- May. 23, 2013
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Automakers can't guarantee success for a new car or truck, even after spending hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars on development, testing and market research.
The head of Southern Co. called the decision to write off $540 million in extra costs on a Mississippi power plant 'a bitter pill for us to swallow,' but he defended the project Wednesday as a long-term investment for the large utility.
The Detroit automakers are largely forgoing the traditional two-week summer break at their factories and speeding up production to meet buyers' growing demand for new cars and trucks.
A federal jury in Jackson has found for Pike County in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against a wood pellet company that never built a promised mill.
A year after thousands danced to the tunes of Jimmy Buffett at the May 22, 2012, opening of Margaritaville Casino, crowds have thinned and management has changed.
The Mississippi Department of Employment Security and the Mississippi Partnership Local Workforce Investment Area will hold a Rapid Response meeting on Wednesday to provide help with re-employment and retraining services for the workers laid off by Plumro
EastGroup Properties has acquired 788,000-square-foot distribution center in Dallas.
McDonald's — which has always had kids at its core — has begun to focus on millennials, whose interests and habits can be difficult to understand.
Investors recovered their poise after a shaky start to trading on Wall Street that sent stocks sharply lower.
It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet.
A deal soon will be in place for developers to finally buy the old Mississippi Valley Title building in downtown Jackson, tear it down and build a nine-story upscale hotel in its place, while another development group is interested in building a separate
CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up.
Sales of new homes rose in April to the second highest level since the summer of 2008 while the median price for a new home hit a record high, further signs that housing is recovering.
Mississippi's jobless rate went down a half a percentage point from March to April, according to data released Wednesday.
The Federal Reserve took financial markets for a ride Wednesday.
Genesis Energy plans to more than double its rail car capacity at its terminal in the Natchez-Adams County Port.
In recognition of a successful two-year environmental remediation project that restored the ecosystem of a 24-acre former wood treatment site in Gautier, a team led by Jacksonville, Fla.-based CSX Corp.
One of three men accused of falsifying temperatures of poultry exported to Russia from Pascagoula pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Gulfport to one count of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States.
After rising since the recession and hitting record highs, used car prices are easing, and the trend will continue, experts say.
A statewide business organization is warning consumers to do their homework before purchasing a used car, following a jump in complaints.
Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the tech giant from a scathing Senate panel's report that concluded the company famed for its iPhones and iPads was infamous for corporate tax avoidance.
C Spire Wireless will sell the Samsung Galaxy S 4 touchscreen smartphone starting at $199.99 with a two-year contract including data services, the Ridgeland wireless carrier announced Wednesday.
Teens are posting more personal information on social media sites, but most also are taking formal and informal measures to protect their online privacy and reputations, a survey finds.
VT Halter Marine Inc. in Pascagoula has received a 12,000 mega ton floating dry dock that will be used to further the company's new venture into the ship repair business.
The U.S. Small Business Administration expects to assist 2,000 veterans obtain loans to start or expand small businesses by increasing lending by $475 million over the next five years.
Reassuring comments from a Federal Reserve official and better earnings from two big retailers — Home Depot and AutoZone — helped push the stock market higher Tuesday.
Gold Strike Casino Resort in Tunica is holding the grand opening of its new $8 million Buffet Americana May 31.
Severstal North America has appointed a new general manager for its rolled steel mill in Lowndes County.
Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations.
UPDATED: Video of Apple CEO Tim Cook testifying before a Senate subcommittee. Congress has pulled the world's most valuable company into the center of a debate over corporate taxes and overseas profits.
Video updated 6:06 p.m.: Microsoft officially launched the Xbox One, what the company calls its next-generation all-in-one entertainment system, on Tuesday. The update features a redesigned controller, improved Kinect system with more conversational speech recognition and tighter integration with cable and television programming.
Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. The unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall’s debut of Nintendo’s Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from Sony.
Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is staking the future of the largest U.S. Web portal on a six-year-old blogging startup with little revenue and a freewheeling stance on content created by users.
Small-company stocks emerged as a bright spot in a slow and choppy start to the week for Wall Street.
Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.
The 'graying tsunami' in rural America means that more farmers are being forced to decide what happens to their farm once they retire or die.
Vietnam's booming Internet scene is littered with failed start-ups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies.
Flush with cash and a world of opportunity at their doorstep, companies have decided there's nothing more attractive than themselves. So, they're offering big money to buy back their own stock. This year, big U.S.
Subaru is recalling a relative handful of 2013 Outback and Legacy models for a potentially huge issue that the automaker thought it had fixed last year -- the steering could fail.
Mississippi Power Co. made an abrupt leadership switch Monday amid cost overruns at the Kemper County power plant it's building, naming Ed Holland president to replace Ed Day.
After its supply and quality were strangled by last year’s severe Upper Midwest drought, corn seems set to stage a major comeback this year in Mississippi and elsewhere, although an unusually wet start to 2013 in the Magnolia State is causing some farmers to reshuffle what they’re planting this spring.
It's almost time for a new Xbox.
Planting of Mississippi row crops has fallen behind schedule following a spate of wet weather, according to industry experts and government officials.
Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion purchase of blog site Tumblr, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
It's not a real product yet, and to the casual observer it remains shrouded in mystery. But that hasn't stopped Google Glass from becoming a spectacle, and the hottest object of high-tech lust since the original iPhone.
Innovate Mississippi is looking for the best new business plan in the state and hopes to find it Tuesday.
Wednesday could mark a new start for one of Jackson's most storied buildings.
Mississippi's unemployment rate dipped in April — but mainly because fewer people were looking for work.
Yahoo may be looking to extend its acquisition streak with social-blogging site Tumblr, according to media reports.
A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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