DETROIT-As it marks 100 years of doing business, General Motors Corp. hopes to focus on the technological and business promise of its next century as much as it commemorates its storied history. MORE
NEW DEHLI, India-With the low-price Nano at one end of its product line and the Land Rover-Jaguar deal at the other, is Tata Motors trying to do too much too fast? MORE
SEOUL-North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is reportedly telling schools to teach children about computers from an early age so his impoverished country can keep up with the rest of the world technologically. MORE
BRUSSELS-Management and unions at Ford Motor Co.'s vehicle assembly plant in Belgium reached a provisional deal early on Monday to end a strike that has stopped production since Thursday. MORE
EUREKA, MO-Contractors have finished construction work on a new Visteon Corp. (Van Buren Township, MI) manufacturing and distribution facility in Eureka, which will eventually supply cockpit components to the Chrysler assembly plant in St. Louis. MORE
MOBILE, AL-European airplane manufacturer Airbus (Toulouse, France) has announced that any aerial refueling tankers supplies to the U.S. Air Force will be assembled in the United States. MORE
DETROIT-General Motors Corp. is saying it will offer retirement incentives to 46,000 of its hourly workers next month as part of a plan to cut labor costs. Analysts expect up to 20,000 workers to leave the company. MORE
BLOOMINGTON, IN-General Electric may close its Bloomington refrigerator plant in late 2009, dealing another setback to an industrial state trying to build a new tech economy even as factory jobs vanish. MORE
DETROIT-General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner says his company’s turnaround plan, which was set in place in 2005, has “exceeded expectations on virtually all counts.” MORE
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