Nortel Networks Corporation

The Washington Post Technology companies often boast that they can easily weather an economic downturn because their products can help people save money. But in the ongoing global crisis, some of them are getting badly beaten up. Nortel Networks...

Most investors probably are hoping that the market turmoil of the last few months is blowing over. But if it's just a prelude to a much more serious financial shakeout, Howard Marks and Bruce Karsh are ready to pick up the pieces. Marks, Karsh and their...

Monday: -- Earnings: Agile Software Corp.; Consolidated Water Co.; Cosi Inc.; GenTek Inc.; Nortel Networks Corp.; U.S. Home Systems Inc. Tuesday: -- February housing starts -- Earnings: Adobe Systems Inc.; Chaparral Steel Co.; Cintas Corp.; FactSet...

With the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament tipping off Thursday, it is time to remind worker bees in cubes, and even those with a door, that there is no privacy at work. So if you plan to watch the games from your office computer, you better hope the boss...

Workers increasingly will have to fend for themselves in retirement as companies continue to curtail pension and retiree medical benefits, according to two studies. The reports, released by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, confirm other studies that show...

The following firms were accused of making unlawful trades from 1999 to 2003 in more than 30 different stocks. The fines that each firm is paying both penalties and is disgorging, or giving up profits, they made on trades in question: · Bear Wagner...

Edward Zander's closest adviser during his first six months as Motorola Inc.'s chief executive officer was a brainy guy who soaks up information like a detective working a case. Wherever Zander was, Richard Nottenburg was nearby. His business card read,...

Texas Instruments Inc., the world's dominant chip supplier for wireless phones, said Tuesday that orders from phone makers are starting to pick up, signaling the initial signs of a rebound in demand for mobile handsets. The company still believes sales...

U.S. factories slowed last month to their most sluggish pace in nearly 18 years, reflecting a broad manufacturing downturn and raising deeper concerns about the health of the U.S. economy. Figures from the Federal Reserve on Friday showed that the...

This is a planet of data gluttons. The latest estimates show Internet traffic - everything from e-mail to photos to full-length Hollywood films - is doubling every 100 days or so. And the thought of this tidal wave of ones and zeroes makes people such...

WorldCom Inc.'s mammoth bankruptcy filing Sunday could prolong the telecommunications industry's long and painful implosion by dragging teetering companies over the brink with it. More than three dozen telecom firms have already landed in Bankruptcy...