Coal in the crosshairs in Europe but fuelling emerging markets

Companies, banks and investment funds, primarily European, have been coming out in recent weeks with announcements they will halt investments in coal, a new front in efforts to reduce use of the highly polluting fuel that ...

Apple's iPhone sales slump while China's Huawei gains

Apple's biggest cash cow, the iPhone, continued to suffer weaker sales around the world in first quarter of the year as Chinese tech giant Huawei flexed its muscles and claimed more market share from Apple and its longtime ...

Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud

Fortune 500 firms with strong growth profiles are more susceptible to 'cooking the books' than smaller, struggling companies, according to a recent study published in Justice Quarterly.

AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo! in ad deal: WSJ

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! are proposing to offer space on each other's sites to advertisers in a bid to take on Google, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Facebook falls flat in public debut (Update 3)

(AP) -- In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited ...

Food marketing and research on kids lacks government oversight

Federal regulations ban tobacco companies from advertising to kids and prohibit profanity on television before 10 p.m. But what is protecting children from predatory advertising of junk food, especially with sneaky online ...

HP-ACS: A cool revolution in refrigerated transportation

A promising new technology designed to achieve efficiencies in cold transport vehicles is currently being developed as a cost-competitive alternative to standard air-conditioning. By making better use of waste heat, the project ...

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