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 issue. Affordable low carbon-di-oxide emission vehicles are very crucial for Europe and the rest of [...]

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 directly complicit in Chinese internet censorship.  Today a bipartisan U.S. Congressional panel praised Google’s actions, [...]

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 filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court by Charlotte Hanna, who said she worked at Goldman [...]

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 customers to run IBM’s mainframe operating systems on anything other than IBM mainframe hardware, an [...]

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 major new research project to assess the effectiveness of competing next generation solar technologies. The [...]

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 $185-million (U.S.) to settle charges by the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

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 evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with [...]

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 decision to eliminate the outdated technology is expected to help cut 430,000 tons of potential [...]

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 Davison, a spokeswoman for Kraft, said the company will cut salt levels in more than [...]

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 viewers flock to the video-sharing site Vimeo.com, where the spot became an instant cause célèbre [...]