Rob Kaiser

Motorola Inc. will cut an additional 7,000 jobs in its troubled cellular telephone division, the telecommunications giant said Tuesday, as it struggles to reverse falling sales and profits. Motorola's cell...

Continuing to ride a wave of improvement in its credit card business, Sears, Roebuck and Co. reported a strong third-quarter performance Thursday, but the retail giant also warned that profits...

In the worldwide rush to mobile commerce, the United States is more observer than participant, which sparked much conversation in Chicago as the Personal Communications Industry Association held its global...

In releasing its results for the first time as a public company, Divine Interventures Inc. said Thursday that the firm's long-term growth prospects are largely tied to a healthy IPO...

Many occupants of Evanston's Technology Innovation Center, the well-known high-tech incubator that spawned Peapod Inc., Illinois Superconductor Corp. and other firms, may soon be forced out. A new owner has...

One day after a federal judge ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corp., some Chicago-area business leaders were expressing concern about the ruling's impact. Even as company Chairman Bill Gates vowed...

Midwestern research universities are becoming increasingly popular among deep-pocketed investors. Venture capitalists have regularly found their way to the campuses of Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other...

While Bank One Corp. shareholders saw the value of their stock erode by 35 percent last year, the company's chief executive officer saw his cash compensation increase by 65 percent....

Molex Inc., the Lisle-based maker of interconnection equipment for computers, consumer products and other gadgets, tends to keep a low profile among the high-tech industries it serves, but lately quite...

It's gotta be the ... zaibatsu? Michael Jordan has agreed to promote Divine Interventures, a Lisle-based company that invests in on-line businesses and describes itself as an Internet zaibatsu, a...