Friday December 27th, 2024 1:40PM

Business News

Dow suffers first 6-session losing streak since 2000
Investors succumbed to worries about earnings and sold stocks sharply lower Monday while they awaited fourth-quarter results that will begin in earnest this week.
8:03AM ( 22 years ago )
MSN closing in on AOL; Atlanta based Earthlink up to No. 3
Microsoft Corp. added 980,000 MSN Internet access subscribers in the last three months of 2001, bringing its total to 7.7 million subscribers, the company said Tuesday.
7:55AM ( 22 years ago )
Mesa Airlines to leave Athens on April 14
Athens' only air passenger service intends to halt flights between Athens-Ben Epps Aiport and Charlotte, N.C., on April 14.
7:16AM ( 22 years ago )
Delta reinstates policy allowing unaccompanied minors
Delta Air Lines said Monday it has resumed allowing children to fly by themselves on direct and connecting flights.
7:09PM ( 22 years ago )
The Home Depot announces new Atlanta divisional headquarters
The Home Depot today announced plans to consolidate two of its nine divisional offices to form a new division that will service its stores in the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean.
4:04PM ( 22 years ago )
Church's chicken to franchise restaurants in 19 African countries
AFC Enterprises Incorporated said today it has signed a franchising agreement to open 100 Church's Chicken restaurants in 19 African countries by 2007. The first is scheduled to open in April in South Africa.
3:49PM ( 22 years ago )
Grits proposed as Georgia's official prepared food
Grits are long overdue for a state honor, says one Georgia representative who proposed Monday making the Southern breakfast staple the state's official prepared food.

3:45PM ( 22 years ago )
Internet now has dot-name - newest Internet suffix to debut with 60,000 addresses
Internet users looking to give friends and relatives an easy-to-remember e-mail or Web site address can now turn to their own name.
3:37PM ( 22 years ago )
Biotechnology companies aim to mass-produce cloned chickens
U.S. poultry growers have a chicken-and-egg dilemma. For decades, people who raise chickens for dinner tables have been honing their "selective breeding" skills and have gotten pretty good at growing the fattest bird possible.
3:32PM ( 22 years ago )
Crank it up, dude - Motorola introduces windup charger for cell phones
The scenario is frustratingly familiar to cell phone users: Warning beeps, "My battery's going," silence. Who hasn't gotten disconnected?
2:08PM ( 22 years ago )