Many of the headlines coming out of Detroit during the North American International Auto Show will be about electric vehicles – from new electric concept vehicles from Nissan and Infiniti to an emerging partnership between Ford and VW on electric and autonomous vehicles. By all means, environmentalists and others should celebrate progress in bringing more EVs to market. But they ...

For every step General Electric Co. takes towards overhauling its culture, it seems to take a step back. The troubled industrial conglomerate announced that UBS Group analyst Steven Winoker would become the head of its investor relations team. Winoker will replace Todd Ernst, who joined only six months ago from Raytheon Co. This change was needed; GE’s communications with investors ...

I’m cautious about Netflix Inc.’s financial health and the wisdom of its investors as the company finances its growth by spending on investors’ dimes. Netflix, though, has underappreciated advantages over the growing number of Netflix wannabes. That’s not to say Netflix will ‘win’ against the competition from Walt Disney Apple Inc., AT&T Inc.’s Time Warner and others. As people spend ...