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…
After shipping nearly 4.07 billion incandescent light bulbs over the last 120 years, Toshiba is cutting the product from its manufacturing line-up, focusing on greener technologies like LED lighting instead, an area in which it has been making headway. The…
Kraft Foods Inc. plans to reduce sodium by an average of 10 percent over the next two years for North American brands, including Oscar Mayer and Velveeta.Kraft’s move follows similar efforts by Campbell Soup Co. and ConAgra Foods Inc. Susan…
Now you see it, now you don't. Wait: Now you do. A global game of Whack-a-Mole broke out Wednesday on the Internet when YouTube removed a gruesome anti-Nestlé commercial by Greenpeace after the multinational food giant complained, only to have…
A few years ago, a book entitled Change or Die made the case that despite the exhortations of management hipsters and hyperbolic CEOs, companies seldom change the way they operate and people rarely modify their behavior. That in fact, even…
Deutsche Telekom, the company behind T-Mobile, has announced plans to introduce a “women’s quota” — ensuring 30% of its management positions are filled by women by the end of 2015. The move will make Deutsche Telekom the first Dax 30…
Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev plans to start making watered-down beer -- as in cutting down water usage in its production process to help make the company’s operations more eco-friendly. By the end of 2012, the company plans to whittle down…
Procter & Gamble is expanding its Future Friendly marketing effort that promotes environmental responsibility under the guise of consumer education. P&G, which owns Tide, Pampers, PUR and Duracell, among other brands, first introduced Future Friendly at the 2009 Clinton Global…
The spat between Google and the Chinese government has been rumbling along for weeks, but just now it's been elevated to "fist fight" status: The inevitable strongly-worded Chinese warning about "consequences" has arrived. The warning came today from the Minister…
