Business and Financial

Dec 15, 2010

WASHINGTON & CHARLESTON, W.Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- United Bankshares, Inc. (United) (NASDAQ: UBSI) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Richard M. Adams, announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement with Centra Financial Holdings, Inc. (Centra). The acquisition of Centra will afford United…

Dec 15, 2010

CUPERTINO, California Apple® announced that the Mac® App Store℠ will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS® X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier…

Dec 13, 2010

The past few years have seen a sharp rise in the debt of the federal government. At the end of fiscal year 2008, debt held by the public amounted to $5.8 trillion--equal to 40 percent of the nation's annual economic…

Oct 6, 2010

Washington, D.C. More than a dozen penny stock promoters and their companies have been charged with securities fraud for their roles in various illicit kickback schemes to manipulate the volume and price of microcap stocks and illegally generate stock sales.…