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How the iPhone Got Tail Fins -- Part 2

Steve Blank | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Automotive Industry, General Motors, Business News, Technology, Car Companies, Auto Industry History, Entrepreneurs, Small Business America, History of the Auto Industry, Business News

In a stroke of genius, GM invented the annual model change. Sloan borrowed this idea from fashion where styles changed every year and applied it to automobiles starting in the 1920s.

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How the iPhone Got Tail Fins -- Part 1

Steve Blank | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Entrepreneurs, Car Companies, General Motors, Small Business America, Automotive Industry, Auto Industry History, History of the Auto Industry, Business News

First it was a craft business, then driven by relentless technology innovation and then a price war as economies of scale drove production. No, it's not Apple and the iPhone. It was General Motors and the auto industry.

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The Worst Corporate Reputations In America

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Bp, Goldman Sachs, Car Companies, Chrysler, Public Perception, American Public, Corporate Reputation, Gm, Survey, Harris Interactive, Financial Companies, Oil Companies, Business News

A company's reputation is formed not only by the products it sells, but by the decisions it makes in times of crises. For some, that's a good thing. F...

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Chrysler's PT Cruiser Symbolized The Company's Fall

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Companies, Chrysler Bankruptcy, Automobiles, Chrysler, Cars, Mini Cooper, Auto Industry, Chrysler PT Cruiser, Business News

DETROIT — A decade ago, the PT Cruiser roared onto the road with trendsetting looks and Al Capone swagger. In a sea of bland Honda Civics and To...

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Toyota To Issue Fix For Recalled Cars

AP | TOM KRISHER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Companies, Toyota Recall, Toyota, Toyota-Gas-Pedal-Replacement, Toyota Motor Corp, Business News

DETROIT — Toyota Motor Corp. plans to start sending parts to dealers in the coming days to fix a sticky gas pedal problem that has tarnished its...

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An American Heartbreak

Norman Lear | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Automakers, Auto Companies, Car Companies, Tom Brokaw, Greatest Generation, American Dream, Business News

What's going on with our car companies breaks the heart of this member of the Greatest Generation. The American motor car played such a significant part in our "American Dream."

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GM Bankruptcy Would Be Most Complicated In History

New York Times | MICHELINE MAYNARD and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Industry, Car Companies, General Motors, Auto Bailout, General Motors Bankruptcy, GM Bankruptcy, Gm, Business News

It is not just lawyers who will be busy handling a G.M. bankruptcy filing, which would be perhaps the biggest and most-watched in legal history. Beca...

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The Chrysler Bankruptcy May Not Be As Smooth As Hoped

Ian Welsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Companies, Cars, Bankruptcy, Chryster, Gm, Business News

The debt holders will go to the judge and argue that they deserve to own much more Chrysler or that it should be broken up and that their claims take precedence. I don't know if they'll succeed.

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GM In "Intense" Preparations For Bankruptcy: Report

Reuters | Chelsea Emery and Soyoung Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Industry, General Motors, Car Companies, Auto Bailout, GM Bankruptcy, Gm, General Motors Bankrutpcy, Business News

General Motors Corp is in "intense" and "earnest" preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company's plans told Reute...

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Ford completes tender offers, cuts $10B in debt

AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Companies, Auto Bailout, Ford Cuts Debt, Ford, Auto Industry Crisis, Dearborn-Michigan, Business News

DETROIT — Shares of Ford Motor Co. soared 16 percent Monday after the company said it completed tender offers that will reduce its debt by 38 pe...

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GM Speeds Up Bankruptcy Plans

Bloomberg | Jeff Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gm, Car Companies, Auto Bailout, General Motors, Auto Industry Crisis, GM Bankruptcy, General Motors Bankruptcy Plans, Business News

General Motors Corp. is speeding up preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing even as directors seek deeper savings this week to avoid that outcom...

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Car Companies Take Bailout Money And Sue Government To Prevent Stricter Fuel-Efficiency Standards

New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Bailout, Car Companies, Car Companies Working Against Fuel-Efficiency Laws, Taxpayer Money Car Companies, Car Companies Suing Government, Green News

It might be hard to find a better example of biting the hand that feeds you. American automakers, the subject of much attention and beneficiaries of a...

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Make Wall Street Take The Same Deal The Autoworkers Get

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Jets, White House, Autoworkers, Economics, 350 Billion, Private Jet, Bailouts, Jets Corporate Jet, Christopher Cox, Gail Vida Hamburg, Charles Schumer, Income, Bush, Krugman, Automakers, Big Three, Auto Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Politics, Jet, Bailout, Treasury, Paul Krugman, Big 3, Tarp, Union, Detroit, Comparison-Shopping, 700 Billion, Sec, Gm, Investment Banks, Bruce Raynor, Executive, Compensation, Car Companies, Chrysler, Nobel Prize, Schumer, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Ceo, Salary, Banks, Fox News, Unions, Senate, Republicans, Ponzi, Business News

If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.

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At the Pump: Down with Gas!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Companies, Economic Slowdown, Chrysler, Car Companies, Gas Prices, Bailout, General Motors, Economic Crisis, Economy, Exxonmobil, Ford, Oil Prices, Henry Paulson, Congress, Oil Companies, Business News

Gas prices are down -- it's party time! All it takes is a hearty appetite, and a good-old-American willingness to forget that the rest of the storm is still headed our way.

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