TD Ameritrade CEO says industry talks ongoing
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Online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.  has been "talking to people in the industry all along and will continue to do that," its chief executive said in an interview with CNBC television on Wednesday.
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The New York Stock Exchange  has  the means to up its offer for pan-European stock market  Euronext  if needed to thwart rival suitor Deutsche  Boerse (DB1Gn.DE), NYSE chief John Thain was quoted as saying  on Thursday.
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Renault-Nissan has said it would continue talks with US-based General Motors on forming &quot;an industrial alliance&quot; after a meeting between the chief executives of the two car-makers.
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Canada&#39;s TD Bank Financial Group says it&#39;s discussing a &quot;possible transaction&quot; with Portland, Maine-based Banknorth Group.
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The United Auto Workers union has told  local UAW leaders to &quot;stand still&quot; for another update at 11  p.m. ET on ongoing negotiations with General Motors Corp  , a local UAW official told Reuters on Friday.
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LONDON - According to a correspondent in Taiwan Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. had some interesting things to say about the outlook following on from the company&#39;s third quarter results.
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The German stock market operator Deutsche Boerse said that its takeover talks with the management of the London Stock Exchange were still "constructive."
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Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin sought more details from TD Ameritrade Holding Co. this week after the Nebraska online brokerage disclosed a breach of its database that may have compromised personal data of all its 6.3 million accounts. In a letter dated Sept. 17, Galvin's office asked TD Ameritrade for more description of the data breach and server ...
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(InfoWorld) - The head of the world's largest contract chip maker said his industry will have trouble maintaining sales and profit growth in the future because the overall chip industry has slowed down and there's a lot more competition. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to expand to new markets and find new work in product areas such as chips for mobile phones, digital cameras, and other consumer electronics devices in order to meet these challenges, said Morris Chang, the chairman of TSMC, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on Monday. The company released information from his speech. Overall revenue growth in the chip industry has slowed to around 6 percent per year between 2000 and 2010, from 16 percent each year prior to 2000, he said. At the same time, more new rivals have entered the contract chip making business. His company will have to find new ways to grow despite these challenges, he said. "Growth opportunities exist in cell-phone applications, game systems, digital TV, LCD displays, power management, MP3 devices, and digital cameras," a paper Chang submitted to the conference reads. Developing closer relationships with the chip design companies that create chips for these kinds of products will be a key strategy for TSMC in the future. TSMC manufactures chips that are designed by other companies, a business model it pioneered. Prior to the Taiwanese company's founding, small chip design firms had to ask Intel, Motorola, and other big chip makers to make their chips, and these companies would only comply if their factories weren't being fully used already. Most small companies didn't have enough money to set up their own chip factory because the high tech plants used to cost around $1 billion each. Now, a new one can cost $3.5 billion. TSMC stepped in to fill the gap, and the result has been the steady growth of chip design companies that never build their own factories. They rely on TSMC or other foundry chip makers, including Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), to manufacture their chips. Mobile phone chip developer Qualcomm and graphics chip designer Nvidia are two examples of companies that have been wildly successful, despite not owning their own factories. They farm out production to foundries such as TSMC and UMC. The success of TSMC and UMC has caused a number of new competitors to enter the chip foundry business. IBM, Samsung Semiconductor, and China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC)Â are all examples of latecomers to the foundry business. These new rivals have been able to survive, and in some cases thrive. "The growth of the industry has attracted many companies to offer foundry services. Consequently, competition between these companies increases the potential for commoditization of foundry services," according to Chang's report. He goes on to say that going forward, the best defense for TSMC will be to engage with chip design customers far earlier in the developing stage of their products, and to offer a wider range of production services. TSMC and UMC hold around a 75 percent share of the global chip foundry business, according to investment banking firm Merrill Lynch & Co. Last week, TSMC said itÂ opened its first office Bangalore, India, to find new customers and help existing ones complete their chip designs faster and bring products more quickly to market. Â
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The CEO of Nissan and Renault talks to TIME about his negotiations for an alliance with struggling General Motors
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Online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Friday one of its databases was hacked and contact information for its more than 6.3 million customers was stolen. A spokeswoman for the Omaha-based company said more sensitive information in the same database, including Social Security numbers and account numbers, does not appear to have been taken.
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The New York Stock Exchange took another step today toward a hybrid trading system. But that doesn't mean the exchange will be losing its floor traders anytime soon, says  NYSE CTO Steve Rubinow.
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CEO Reed Hastings continues his discussion with The Motley Fool Radio Team.
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WILMINGTON, Del. Oct. 5, 2004 - PeopleSoft Inc., which has resisted hostile takeover advances from Oracle Corp. for 16 months, is willing to talk about a deal at the right price, a member of PeopleSoft&#39;s board said Tuesday.
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Christopher F. Egan met yesterday afternoon with lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission in an effort to keep his planned purchase of radio station WBIX-AM on track.
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TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.   has been talking to rival online brokers about potential deals,  its CEO said the day after the company disclosed that two hedge  funds had pushed it to pursue a merger.
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Investor's Business Daily - Trade negotiators may be near a breakthrough, said U.S. Trade Rep. Susan Schwab. The Bush administration is hoping, after over 6 years of fractious talks, to overcome divisions over tariffs, subsidies and other trade rules, and produce a new global pact before Pres. Bush leaves office. Rich nations want lower tariffs on industrial goods and services; poor nations want farm subsidies and tariffs scrapped.