AP - Businesses cut inventories in December, indicating caution about strength of economic recovery. - [Read more]

BusinessWeek - On my first day at Yale (Yale Executive MBA Profile), Deputy Dean Stan Garstka told me the experience of Yale would not only provide me with a world-class education but also change who I am and how I think about business. He was right. I started the second year at business school feeling I was coming into my own with a new perspective. Business concepts that felt so loosely woven together over the course of the first year have become the foundation for classes in the second. Financial Management has led to Corporate Finance and Investor. ... - [Read more]

AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday: - [Read more]

A podcast client is the software used to access and download podcasts. Podcast clients are also known as media aggregators, programs designed to automatically access an online file, or feed, and download the audio or video file associated with it. - [Read more]

Investor's Business Daily - The global coal industry is in the midst of a permanent structural shift in the form of the emerging dominance of the Asia-Pacific region. - [Read more]

Reuters - Anheuser-Busch InBev , the world's largest brewer, reported better than expected fourth-quarter results on Thursday and hiked its target for synergies from its merger. - [Read more]

AP - Amid a year-long turnaround plan teen clothing retailer Charlotte Russe Holding Inc. says it will consider selling itself, and warned that continued sales weakness will drive a larger-than-expected loss for the fiscal second quarter. - [Read more]

AP - American International Group Inc. on Wednesday said it agreed to sell all of its ownership interests in its consumer finance operations in Colombia, the latest in a recent string of asset sales by the embattled insurer to bolster its finances. - [Read more]

Altova(R) (www.altova.com), creator of XMLSpy(R) and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced the availability of the Altova XMLSpy online product demo. Produced with award-winning style, the XMLSpy demo is made up of highly informative modules covering XMLSpy's major features and capabilities, including its world's best-selling XML editor; graphical schema designer; XML validator; XPath, XSLT, XQuery, WSDL, and SOAP support; and code generator. - [Read more]

NewsFactor - Amazon.com is seizing on the popularity of its electronic book reader Kindle to reach a new market. On Friday the online retailer said it will make Kindle e-books available on a variety of mobile phones, but the company is not saying which books would be available or on which phones, according to the Associated Press. - [Read more]