Filed under: Google (GOOG) , Microsoft (MSFT) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , eBay (EBAY) , Small business As a small company, you probably have employees in remote locations. No doubt, there are many management and communications issues. Yes, it’s often the case that things slow down — or even fights break out

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Entrepreneur’s Journal: Time to use an online collaboration tool for your business?

Filed under: Bad news , Consumer experience , Rants and raves , Scandals , Sunday Funnies It’s been a while since I posted something in the “Funnies” category but today I just had to share something with our readers. I just got off the phone with an elderly friend that had received an email from a notorious scam artist that promised daily income with little or no risk.

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Sunday Funnies: Huge profits with no risk!

Filed under: Management , Sears Holdings (SHLD) What would happen if a brilliant hedge fund manager took over a retailer and ran it with a rigid focus on financial metrics, putting aside all that soft stuff about branding and marketing? Take a look at Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD ), and you have your answer.

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Eddie Lampert’s Sears experiment looking like a failure

Filed under: Earnings reports , Exxon Mobil (XOM) , China , Oil Demand rose after China eased restrictions on fuel prices last December, and that translated a record second-quarter profit for Asia’s biggest refiner, China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec. Beijing-based Sinopec’s net income surged to 22 billion yuan ($3.22 billion) in the three months that ended June 30, according to estimates by Bloomberg News. That easily topped the analysts’ consensus estimate of 15.8 billion yuan

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Higher fuel prices in China translate to record profits for Sinopec

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Canadian banks are scheduled to step into the earnings spotlight this week, with third-quarter reports coming from Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO ), Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS ), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE: CM ), Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY ), and Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD ). While Canadian banks on the whole held up better than their U.S. counterparts during the financial crisis, these five are expected to report that their earnings are still declining in the most recent quarter.

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The week in preview: Canadian banks in the earnings spotlight

Filed under: Earnings reports , Wal-Mart (WMT) , Target Corp. (TGT) Ann Taylor Stores (NYSE: ANN ) reported earnings for the second quarter this past Friday

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Ann Taylor beats in second quarter — is it a trade or an investment?