Business news for Fri, 28 Mar 2008 & with word plans. 41 news.

Starbucks Corp. plans to appeal a San Diego Superior Court ruling last week that ordered the coffee chain to compensate California baristas for tips they shared with shift supervisors.

CAVE CREEK - Cave Creek built a water storage tank partly on land it doesn't own and now plans to buy the property for $1.2 million.

Northwest Airlines has sought to press ahead with plans to merge with rival Delta Air Lines without first securing the support of their pilots, people familiar with the plan said

Pubs group Punch Taverns yesterday said it had pulled plans to merge with rival Mitchells & Butlers after deciding the deal was "not in the best interests" of its

Apple is gearing up for a big bump in sales of the next generation iPhone, if new production plans are any guide.

The International Monetary Fund has backed plans to redistribute voting power in the organisation.

The start-up has raised an additional $1 million in seed funding from its existing investor, and plans to work with the venture firm to start a Series A round.

(Crain’s) — Peoples Gas and its union have reached a new labor deal that hikes wages and preserves pensions for existing workers but allows the company to shift from more costly pensions to 401(k) plans for new union employees. Gas Workers Union Local 18007 members ratified the pact by a ...

(AP) — Illinois Tool Works Inc. said Friday it acquired the parent company of Vitronics Soltec Corp., which makes soldering tools used in the semiconductor industry. Glenview-based ITW did not disclose the terms of its purchase of VS Acquisition Holding Inc. It plans to add the business to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Northwest Airlines Corp. executives are pitching a new deal to Delta Air Lines Inc. that would allow the stalled merger to proceed, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday on its Web site, citing people familiar with the matter. The new Northwest proposal would give less generous terms to pilots, the newspaper said. Earlier in the month, merger plans apparently stalled after unions representing Northwest and Delta pilots could not agree on how to determine pilot seniority in the combined airline.

RAE Systems Inc. said Friday it will cut its work force by 10 percent in a cost-cutting move that will trim about $1.3 million from the company's annual budget.

Britain's biggest share-registration company plans to ship key parts of its business to India

The City of London has given a cautious welcome to plans to give US-style plea-bargaining powers to the Financial Services Authority, allowing it to offer whistle-blowers immunity from prosecution.

Proposed deal 'raises serious doubts' The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into Nokia's plans to buy NavTeq, a US company that produces navigable digital maps.…

BHP Billiton, the mining giant, has abruptly terminated a multimillion-pound business relationship with Standard Bank, its main banking partner, in a bitter public dispute over radical plans to reduce electricity consumption by big industrial companies to assist South Africa’s crippling power shortage.

The EPA plans to delay action to determine whether carbon dioxide endangers public health and welfare and should be regulated, a year after the Supreme Court ordered the agency to rule on CO2 regulation.

General Motors Corp. plans to shut down a Detroit assembly plant Monday because of parts shortages caused by a strike against a key supplier that have now idled almost half of GM's factory work force in North America.

Boeing Co. disclosed Friday that it plans to buy out one of two partners in a joint venture that does sub-assembly work for the aerospace giant's new 787 "Dreamliner" jetliner, which has been plagued by production delays as it moves toward commercial rollout.

Southern California Edison plans major solar energy project Southern California Edison plans to build the nation's largest solar energy installation - an array of collector cells covering two square miles of rooftops that could power about 162,000 homes, the utility announced Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- It's not often a company returns a third of its quarterly profit to shareholders. But thanks to a new dividend policy, egg producer Cal-Maine Foods Inc. plans to do just that for each and every profitable quarter from now on.