DETROIT-General Motors Corp.’s reign as the undisputed automaking king of the hill has officially ended, as sales totals for 2007 show the automaker tied with Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. MORE
LODZ, Poland-Computer maker Dell Inc.’s newest and most advanced manufacturing facility can now be found in Poland, where the company hopes to tap into the growing computer market in Central and Eastern Europe. MORE
LONDON-Despite an uncertain business climate, British manufacturing held steady in the last three months of 2007, with export orders growing even faster than they did earlier in the year. MORE
TORONTO-Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is threatening to impose trade barriers on automobiles imported from South Korea unless that country opens up its market to cars and trucks made in Canada. MORE
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