Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC) announces major conference. This June, join an uncommon cross-section of leaders from business, governments and donor agencies helping you turn ideas and commitments into action and results. Global Health Action, the…
Starbucks is sponsoring an open collaboration contest called betacup to engage the public in solving what it sees as a disposable cup problem. Cynics may argue that this is just a marketing ploy by a company trying to put over…
Recently in Cologne. To woo environment-conscious drivers into its fold, Ford Motors Company has said it is looking to make green technology not just sustainable but also affordable, especially for the Asian markets. "We see climate change as an important…
Rep. Smith, R-N.J.:"They [Microsoft] need to get on the right side of human rights rather than enabling tyranny, which they're doing right now." There has been much talk about Google's decision to pull out of China while Microsoft has remained…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc was sued for alleged bias by a former vice president, who said the Wall Street bank consigned her to a "mommy track" that led to her firing while she was on maternity leave. The lawsuit was…
Antitrust problems for IBM mounted yesterday when a fresh complaint about its business practices was filed with Europe's top competition regulator. The new complaint comes from TurboHercules, a French company, which is accusing the US group of refusing to allow…
L'organisation des principaux producteurs et fonderies de l'étain (ITRI), s'est dit pràªt à débuter la seconde phase d'essai pilote au sujet de la traà§abilité de l'étain provenant des mines de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). La plus haute autorité…
In a move bound to be interpreted in some quarters as symbolic of the company's evolving low carbon energy strategy, oil giant Chevron announced yesterday that it is to use one of its former refineries in California to host a…
Daimler AG was charged on Tuesday with violating U.S. bribery laws for a decade by showering foreign officials with millions of dollars in payments and gifts of luxury cars in hopes of winning lucrative business deals. Daimler plans to pay…
On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered…
