It was only a single bullet in his pocket while waiting to board an airplane. But St. Jude Medical CEO Daniel Starks is in a different league, one often inhabited by professional athletes and celebrities rather than medical technology executives, after his detention last week at a Delhi, India airport.

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St. Jude Medical’s (NYSE:STJ) chief executive officer Daniel Starks was free to travel inside India on Thursday, a day after authorities detained him for having a single round of live ammunition on him at the Delhi airport.

St. Jude Medical’s (NYSE:STJ) chief executive officer was arrested in India on Wednesday after authorities at the Delhi airport found a single live round tucked into a knee pocket of his cargo pants, according to media reports.Daniel Starks was in India on business and was about to take a chartered flight from the Indira Gandhi [...]

Earnings reports are good ways to measure a company’s financial performance. What they’re less useful for is gauging a company’s confidence. You know… Mojo. Swagger. Groove. And here’s what I see: Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) always had it. Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) has lost it. And St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE: STJ) is feeling it.

St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE:STJ) on Tuesday upgraded its end-of-the-year profit forecast after reporting a third quarter adjusted earnings gain of 16.5 percent. The medical device maker, based in Little Canada, Minnesota, said it now expects to make $2.98 to $3.00 a share, compared to its earlier estimate of $2.78 to $2.83 a share.

St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE: STJ) said Monday it will acquire fellow Minnesota medical device maker AGA Medical Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:AGAM) for $1.3 billion. Under terms of the all-cash agreement, St. Jude, based in Little Canada, will pay $20.80 for each share of AGA stock and assume $225 million in AGA debt. The company expects to close the deal by the end of the year.

Medtronic’s earnings are bad news for the medical device industry and may indicate the global economy is in worse shape than people think.

A Minnesota judge hearing a dispute between Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) and St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE: STJ) over the hiring of a top executive has split the difference.Joseph McCullough can start work at Medtronic in November, not May 2011, as St. Jude had wanted, according to a ruling by Ramsey District Court Judge M. Michael [...]

In Minnesota, the sincerest form of flattery is not imitation but rather working for the enemy.According to the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE: STJ) filed a lawsuit against a former top executive, accusing the man of violating a non-compete agreement. The company fears the man will share confidential information with rival [...]