Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook has jetted into China for talks with government officials as he seeks to clear up a pile of problems in the firm’s biggest growth market, from its contested iPad trademark to treatment of local labour. Cook is on his first trip to the country since taking over from late [...]

Aujourd’hui top sponsor du CIO, le géant américain Dow Chemical est montré du doigt. La firme a racheté Union Carbide, qui fut responsable de la tragédie indienne de 1984. Enquête. Trois mille cinq cents morts, chiffre officiel, 20 000 à 25 000 selon les associations de victimes, au moins 12 000 écrit le sérieux Washington Post. Et, 27 [...]

Gay marriage wouldn’t have passed in the Washington state Legislature this year without Gov. Chris Gregoire’s decision to reverse course and push for it. Legislators’ personal pleas to colleagues, as epitomized by Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh’s passionate floor speech about her desire to throw her daughter a wedding someday, also played [...]

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) will join with the World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) as an official sponsor of World Sleep Day 2012, held on Friday, March 16. This year’s theme – ‘Breathe Easily, Sleep Well’ – centers on raising awareness of sleep disorders that affect a person’s [...]

H&M and the British Red Cross have teamed up to launch an in-store recycling partnership as part of Climate Week 2012, Britain’s biggest climate change campaign. Climate Week, which is supported by H&M and backed by individuals including Sienna Miller and the Prime Minister, launches today (12 March 2012). H&M is calling on customers to donate unwanted or [...]

Plusieurs grandes entreprises, dont Shell, seront présentes au Forum mondial de l’eau, qui se déroule à Marseille du 12 au 17 mars. Une présence qui pourrait déclencher quelques controverses concernant les impacts des entreprises sur la ressource en eau. Certaines d’entre elles tentent cependant d’appréhender ce nouveau risque. « Le management du risque-eau par les [...]

The US anti-sweatshop movement was born the day we discovered how our Nikes were stitched together. Two decades later, we are discovering how our cherished iPhones are made, giving Apple a ” Nike moment” of its own. Worker suicides at Apple’s main Chinese supplier, Foxconn, in 2010, followed by reports of [...]

A.P. Moeller Maersk, the world’s biggest container ship owner, is leading its industry in developing biofuels made from organic waste that could cut its carbon emissions and reduce a $6 billion annual fuel bill. Maersk is conducting tests with two Danish universities to develop clean fuels tailored for ships and has worked with the U.S. [...]

SHANGHAI – Three companies were responsible for an incident last year in which dozens of children developed lead poisoning, according to a report by the municipal government. In late September, 49 children, mainly between the ages of one and three, were found with elevated blood lead levels. They were among the 1,306 children living in [...]

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Mitsubishi Motors), a major Japanese automaker, has announced its future plans for the development of electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid vehicles to address the ever-growing concern of the massive carbon footprint left by contemporary vehicles which depend on fossil fuels as energy sources. At a media conference [...]