While large tech companies are currently feeling the heat from regulators and Congress, over a century ago, the trustbusters had their sights on Big Oil. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big ...

Standard Oil was apparently something you were supposed to remember from high school. That's because until Tuesday, the company was still the subject of a Justice Department decree forcing it to split ...

Mr. Herbert L. Pratt has been chosen to be the head of the Standard Oil Company of New York, to replace Mr. Henry C. Folger, who resigned shortly after the Board of Directors failed to secure the ...

Perhaps the most concrete example most Americans refer to when they think of business monopoly is the classic case of Standard Oil, the American oil company established by John D. Rockefeller in 1870.

Sure, the daily commute can put a lot of stress on your car, but that's nothing compared to what a full-fledged racecar goes through. In a grueling endurance competition like the Le Mans event, racers ...