Fortune 500

Today in the Fortune 500: AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile, Citi aims to return money to shareholders and Wal-mart revamps its U.S. sales strategy

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

AT&T WANTS TO BUY T-MOBILE from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, which would make the combined company the biggest wireless carrier in the country. Regulators are scrambling to make sure that the deal wouldn't give MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: General Mills bids for 50 percent stake in Yoplait, another director leaves Goldman Sachs and CEO bonuses are back

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

Today in the Fortune 500: Target, Wal-Mart pressure Amazon on taxes, Pepsi loses out to Diet Coke and pushes dips abroad

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

PAY UP The campaign to make Amazon collect sales taxes is growing stronger. Big-name stores including Target (TGT), Best Buy (BBY), Home Depot (HD), Wal-Mart (WMT) and Sears Holdings (SHLD) are joining a group called MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: Verizon, AT&T fall prey to porn ad scam, SEC after former CEO of Freddie Mac and Northrop Grumman sells its shipyards

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

PORN SITE AD SCAM hits advertisers, who have been tricked into paying for phantom traffic. A group of pornography sites are using software that launches a flood of hidden pages with links that users never MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: Quake in Japan could mean price increases for some manufacturers, Microsoft to make a more private browser and Pfizer may undo its mega-mergers

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

DISASTER IN JAPAN One of the less tragic effects of the earthquake and tidal wave that hit the Japanese coast is that they damaged factories for major manufacturers, which will have to MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: J&J's deal with the FDA, AIG wants its mortgage-backed securities back and Blockbuster is sold, not liquidated

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

WE'RE WATCHING YOU, but not fining you. Johnson & Johnson just agreed to let the Food and Drug Administration keep the company's plants under close scrutiny, following a slew of recalls issued MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: BP CEO is sorry, Ford steps up its Southeast Asian game and AIG pays off more government debt

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

OUR BAD The CEO of BP (BP), Bob Dudley, took some time out of his speech to say sorry during the largest oil gathering since the spill in the gulf of Mexico--an energy conference put MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: More airline fees on the way, BP keeps Algerian assets and the iPad 2 takes to the skies

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

IF YOU THOUGHT AIRLINE FEES WERE RIDICULOUS ALREADY they are only getting more so. Companies including American Airlines (AMR) , Delta (DAL) and United Continental Holdings (UAL) are going to charge for additional services that MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: Apple's iPad 2 reviews, News Corp.'s British media takeover and BP execs miss out on bonuses

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

NOT SHOCKING, BUT SOLID seems to be the consensus from analysts on Apple's (AAPL) new iPad 2, revealed yesterday by CEO Steve Jobs. The new device follows the traditional path of second-generation Apple products--it's thinner, MORE

Today in the Fortune 500: Former P&G director accused of insider trading, GM's February sales say customers are car shopping and Yahoo might ditch Yahoo Japan

The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.

By Shelley DuBois, reporter

SO MUCH INSIDER TRADING The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Rajat Gupta, former director of both Procter & Gamble (PG) and Goldman Sachs of trading inside information on both companies during the financial crisis in 2008. One MORE