BUSINESS BRIEFS: Big 3 automakers see credit rank downgrade Mon, Nov 24, 2008 | Add a comment NATION Big 3 automakers see credit rank downgrade Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s on Monday warned that one of the three U.S. automakers could default over the next 12 months as...

EU adds document formats to its Microsoft concerns Wed, Feb 27, 2008 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- European Union regulators said Thursday they will consider Microsoft Corp.'s promise to make its Office productivity programs work more seamlessly with competing...

Deep Rock case ends in settlement Tue, Jul 11, 2006 Deal with SEC over alleged fraud awaits approval The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to settle a case of alleged fraud against Deep Rock Oil Co. of Norman and its executive...

12p-boone's son in trouble-vo Fri, Jun 16, 2006 The following is a script from a News9 broadcast ((ANG)) The son of billionaire oil tycoon Boone Pickens is accused in a drunken burglary. Police in a small Connecticut town say they found...

Mortgage chief faces accounting questions Executives put on defensive in bitter quiz on misdeeds Fri, Jun 16, 2006 WASHINGTON - The chief executive of mortgage giant Fannie Mae, who was the top operations official at the time of accounting misdeeds, endured pointed questioning Thursday from senators demanding...

Perjury inquiry requested Thu, Jun 15, 2006 WASHINGTON - A senior House lawmaker has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Fannie Mae's then-chief executive and finance chief lied to Congress in sworn testimony in 2004. Rep....

Q&A with Drew Edmondson Thu, May 18, 2006 Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed a 15-count indictment against WorldCom founder Bernie Ebbers, the company and five former executives nearly two years ago. Oklahoma was the first...

Former WorldCom chief convicted on nine counts Thu, May 18, 2006 NEW YORK - Bernard Ebbers, the once-swaggering chief executive officer of WorldCom, was convicted Tuesday of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history -- an $11 billion accounting...

The defendants Thu, May 18, 2006 Bernard J. Ebbers: Bernie Ebbers presided over the massive buildup and spectacular collapse of one of the world's largest telecommunications corporations. Ebbers resigned as WorldCom's chief...