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General Motors Co. reported a profit Thursday of $510 million for the fourth quarter and a full-year profit of $4.7 billion for 2010, the first profitable year for the company since 2004.

Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group Thursday posted a fourth-quarter profit of C$33.2 million, or 42 cents per share, compared with C$11.1 million, or 14 cents, a year before.

Stoney “Mit” Stubbs Jr., CEO of Frozen Food Express Industries, will retire Monday, the company said.

New home sales decreased 13% in January, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Initial jobless claims decreased 22,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Durable goods orders rose 2.7% in January, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Navistar International Corp. has reached a development agreement with EcoMotors International to help commercialize the engine maker’s “opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder” engine technology.

Loss of event data recorder — or “black box” — information is one of the biggest problems in trucking accident litigation. While the market for EDR monitoring software has exploded in recent years, accident experts and attorneys are finding that much of this technology is incorrectly downloaded, analyzed and stored, creating legal and financial risks that can threaten the very existence of the company that makes use of it.