BRIEFCASE DELL BEGINS NEW PLAN FOR RECYCLING.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services SAN FRANCISCO - After becoming the target of angry environmental and workers'-rights groups, Dell Computer launched a recycling campaign Wednesday aimed at businesses and consumers. The nation's largest computer maker will charge consumers as little as $49 to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose computers - without dumping hazardous materials in landfills in the United States or in developing countries. As part of an Asset Recovery program, Dell executives reiterated their promise to stop using prison labor to recycle computers, which contain dangerous, brain-damaging chemicals. Yahoo! jacks up earnings forecast SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo! Inc. announced its fifth-consecutive quarter of profitability Wednesday, and the Internet portal boosted expectations for earnings in the second half of the year. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based bellwether reported net income of $50.8 million, or 8 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. , in the second quarter. It earned $21.4 million, or 3 cents per share, in the same period last year. The results matched the 8 cents per share estimate among analysts polled by Thomson First Call. Net revenues for the second quarter totaled $321.4 million, a 42 percent increase over the $225.8 million a year ago. Regulators target exec of Citigroup NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - Securities regulators have notified the former chief of global research at Citigroup Inc. that he could face civil charges for rules violations, a sign they are moving ahead in their investigation of possible wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do at Wall Street's executive level. John B. Hoffmann, 63, would be the highest-ranking Wall Street executive to face charges in the sweeping regulatory probe of conflicts of interest in stock research. His attorney, Charles Stillman, confirmed Wednesday that Hoffmann is cooperating with the National Association of Securities Dealers National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Nonprofit organization formed under the joint sponsorship of the investment bankers' conference and the SEC to comply with the Maloney Act, which provides for the regulation of the OTC market. , the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . |
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