Greg Brown

++++++++++++++++++++ || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ Kirk Donald was stuck in financial quicksand and sinking fast. He hustled harder on his daytime sales job, worked night security at a nursing home and delivered papers at dawn. He emptied his family's...

Frustrated Motorola Inc. shareholders arrived at Monday's annual meeting with plenty to vent about but left with few answers. They peppered Chief Executive Greg Brown with questions ranging from the wisdom of the planned breakup to Motorola's seeming...

In the run-up to Motorola's 2008 annual shareholders meeting, vocal investor Carl Icahn threatened a proxy battle, sued the company, helped persuade executives to pursue a breakup and won two seats on the board. Those events were just a prelude to the...

Is the Nicholas Fund worth owning? - P.R., via e-mail While it has staying power, it hasn't distinguished itself. Albert Nicholas, who began his career in banking and still favors financial stocks, has run this low-cost fund since he founded it nearly...

Q: I do not like the performance of my Macy's Inc. stock. What gives? F.L. via the Internet A: Consumer spending is sliding, and the nation's largest department-store chain by revenue is still struggling to build a strong national brand. The mall-...

Question: I do not like the performance of my Macy's Inc. stock. What gives? -- F.L., via the Internet Answer: Consumer spending is sliding, and the nation's largest department-store chain by revenue is still struggling to build a strong national brand....

While trying to catch up with an industry that has lapped it, Motorola has fallen further behind, reporting a larger-than-expected loss in the first quarter and a 39 percent drop in cell phone sales from the year-earlier period. The Schaumburg-based...

Motorola Inc. has reorganized its cell phone unit, aiming to improve software strategy and the speed of product launches as it prepares to separate the business into an independent, publicly traded company. The structural changes will help "attract and...

… the (planned) split of the cell phone unit: "It's stunningly sad. Just four years ago in the first quarter, mobile devices sales grew 67 percent, made $398 million [an operating margin of 9.8 percent], almost a year before the Razr kicked in. The...

Motorola Inc.'s board of directors has elected a new chairman who will share Chief Executive Greg Brown's responsibilities in overseeing the split-up of the company and welcoming allies of activist shareholder Carl Icahn into the fold. Schaumburg-based...