AstraZeneca won approval Monday to promote its cholesterol fighting drug Crestor for preventing heart disease in a vast new market of people with healthy cholesterol but other heart risks. Crestor won ... Read More
Covidien plc said Wednesday it plans to buy Somanetics Corp. for $250 million. Somanetics, which develops, manufactures and sells noninvasive medical diagnostic and monitoring equipment, had sales of $50 million in ... Read More
Covidien, the healthcare company spun off from Tyco nearly three years ago, said on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy ev3, a maker of stents and other medical devices, for ... Read More
Corning Inc. said Tuesday its profit almost tripled in the fourth quarter on surging sales of glass for flat-screen televisions and computers. The world’s largest maker of liquid-crystal-display glass, accounting for ... Read More
Covidien plc said Wednesday it completed its $250 million acquisition of Somanetics Corp. The deal was announced a little more than a month ago. Somanetics, which develops, manufactures and sells noninvasive ... Read More
Corn Products International has agreed to buy the starches arm of Dutch paintmaker Akzo Nobel N.V. for around $1.3 billion. Corn Products International will pay cash and also assume employee obligations ... Read More
Genesis 10, a New York-based business consulting firm, has opened an office in Kansas City and expects to hire 153 employees at good salaries over the next three years. The firm ... Read More
Compass Plus, an international provider of electronic funds transfer (EFT) and payments technology to financial institutions, announced it has opened its first North American office in St. Louis, and has appointed ... Read More
Gold Mountain Communications LLC is adding 140 jobs and leasing an office at 1701 W. Sunshine St. in Springfield. A ribbon-cutting and grand-opening for Gold Mountain Communications, a call center, will ... Read More
Experiments by scientists at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are moving forward quickly and could be producing jet fuel from algae at competitive prices by next year, the ... Read More