An American financial company recently surveyed credit card users and found that the type and design of the credit card in their wallet is not as important as the benefits they offer or the interest rate applied.

AT&T, the exclusive American carrier of the iPhone, activated just 900,000 iPhones during the fourth quarter, the company revealed during its earnings conference call Thursday. It wrapped up the year with “just at or slightly under 2 million iPhone customers,” according to company executives.

Mining companies - many of them foreign-owned - have trotted off with billions of dollars in gold and other minerals from public land in the last several years. They've left American taxpayers to clean up their abandoned mines and deal with the impact. And the cost of cleanup could total $32 billion or more.

Ford Motor Company took pride in 2004 with its introduction of the first full hybrid SUV (sports utility vehicle) to rock the car business. Three years ago, the 2004 Ford hybrid Escape debuted as the first American-manufactured full hybrid SUV.

An unprecedented number of Scots and Americans will try to circumvent a US ban on British offal products so that they can celebrate Burns Night as it is meant to be: in the company of the “great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race” - haggis. “We take this very seriously. If it is found, it is confiscated and destroyed.”

Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, and annually exports the largest percentage of beef out of the United States. With 2005 sales of US$26 billion, Tyson Foods is the second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500, the largest meat producer in the world, and according to Forbes one of the 100 largest companies in the United States.The company makes a wide variety of protein-based and prepared food products at its 123 food processing plants. Tyson Foods has approximately 107,000 employees, who work at more than 300 facilities in the United States and throughout the world. Tyson works with 6,729 contract chicken growers.Tyson Foods is one of largest U.S. marketers of value-added chicken, beef and pork to retail grocers, broad line foodservice distributors and national fast food and full service restaurant chains; fresh beef and pork; frozen and fully-cooked chicken, beef and pork products; case-ready beef and pork; supermarket deli chicken products; meat toppings for the pizza industry and retail frozen pizza; club store chicken, beef and pork; ground beef and flour tortillas.Tyson Foods is a supplier of all Yum! Brands chains that use chicken (including Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell), as well as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Wal-Mart, Kroger, Costco, IGA, Beef O'Brady's, small restaurant businesses and prisons.