Giving customers even more choice in how they pay online, eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY) and PayPal (Nasdaq:EBAY) now offer Bill Me Later as a payment option during checkout. With Bill Me Later, qualified eBay and PayPal customers in the U.S. can now manage their budgets more easily, buying items quickly and effortlessly and paying for them over time, without using a credit card.
On eBay, Bill Me Later will be available as a payment option for both Buy It Now and approved auction purchases. Qualified customers can also use Bill Me Later at tens of thousands of their favorite online merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout
Oct 19 · 12:07:00 PM · Source: Business Wire
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by Larry Etter
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn offered to underwrite a $6 billion loan to CIT Group Inc. on Monday, complaining that a proposed solution hammered out by the cash-strapped century-old commercial lender and its largest creditors is too expensive and detrimental to CIT's smaller bondholders.
In a blistering letter to CIT's board, dated Oct. 19, Icahn, who refers to himself as CIT's largest creditor, said the company is "shamelessly" offering to sell certain large bondholders $6 billion of secured loans "well below their fair market value."
Oct 19 · 12:05:00 PM · Source: Wall Street Journal
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Eaton Corp. reported a 39% drop in third-quarter profit, as cost cuts failed to offset the impact of the auto-industry slump.
But the maker of electrical systems and hydraulics boosted its full-year earnings view, as the results topped its target. The company had slashed its 2009 projection in July.
Oct 19 · 9:36:00 AM · Source: Wall Street Journal
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Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) agreed to acquire affiliate iPCS Inc. for $426 million, the last of the major independent affiliates of Sprint, in a deal that will also end their legal battle.
IPCS had been arguing that Sprint's 2005 acquisition of Nextel violated an exclusivity agreement with iPCS, which is the Nextel affiliate in the territories in which it operates. IPCS has some 700,000 customers in seven states.
Oct 19 · 9:34:00 AM · Source: Wall Street Journal
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Gannett Co.'s third-quarter profit tumbled 53% amid an advertising slump, but the newspaper publisher's results beat its heightened expectations, helped by cost cuts.
Advertising down, but company did a good job of managing costs.
Oct 19 · 9:28:00 AM · Source: Wall Street Journal
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GE Consumer & Industrial's electrical business recently signed a "strategic alliance agreement" with Validus DC Systems, LLC, a leading provider of fully integrated Direct Current (DC) power infrastructure for datacenters and telecommunications facilities, to promote the new Validus DC Data Center System using advanced GE electrical components.
In addition to providing improved end-to-end reliability, the new system can lower facility costs for equipment, real estate and energy, effectively reducing the total cost of ownership by 30 to 50 percent.
Oct 19 · 9:23:00 AM · Source: Business Wire
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NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) today announced that ING Belgium has chosen the NCR SelfServTM 34 automated teller machine (ATM) with cash-recycling module to equip its new-concept Proxi branches.
The Proxi branch concept is part of ING Belgium’s retail bank strategy, unveiled in 2007 and driven by changes in customer expectations and habits, particularly the trend towards electronic channels. Proxi branches have an attractive open-plan layout with a fresh design and no counters or security glass, in order to facilitate interaction between customers and bank staff.
Oct 19 · 9:21:00 AM · Source: Business Wire
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ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has been awarded a $72 million Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for its Aviator’s Night Vision Imaging Systems, night vision tubes and spare parts.
With this most recent award, ITT remains the sole supplier of aviation goggles and tubes to the U.S. Army.
Oct 16 · 4:32:00 PM · Source: Business Wire
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