Henry Engelhardt is proving you don't need a strict, no-nonsense management style to lead a successful multinational company. He does need a Ministry of Fun team dedicated to organizing keeping the staff happy.
Plenty has been written about the new iPhone 4S, but one little known feature is the amazingly thoughtful AssistiveTouch. Now, you can literally turn the screen off if you're blind and operate everything — do your e-mail, surf the Web, adjust settings, run apps — by tapping and letting the phone speak what you're touching.
Virgin Atlantic Airways and LanzaTech are developing an aviation fuel that will cut in half the carbon footprint of conventional flights. Instead of using plant stock for the fuel, waste gases are being captured from steel mills. The gases, which would otherwise burn up in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, are fermented and chemically converted into jet fuel.
Construction and operation plans have been approved for America's first offshore wind farm, which could create up to 1000 jobs at the 130-turbine Cape Wind project off the Massachusetts coast beginning in a few months.
Google's investments in clean power are now rivaling that of stand alone clean energy investors. Monday morning, the search engine giant said it has invested $100 million in the world's largest wind farm, under construction in Oregon -- marking a total of $350 million invested in clean power.
The word 'Hope' engraved on wooden blocks is on display alongside food items in several Budgens grocery stores as an innovative way to raise money for charity. Shoppers can place the blocks in their carts for the cashiers to collect £1 for each one scanned in support of local people affected by dementia.
U.S. stocks closed out 2012 with their strongest day in more than a month. Not only that, the S&P 500 ended the year up 13.4 percent since January 1 of last year, its best performance since 2009. The Dow Jones average added 7.3% for the year and the Nasdaq jumped 16%.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment aid hit a five-year low last week, and residential construction surged in December, the latest signs that the U.S. economic recovery remains on track.
Kickstarter, the crowd-funding site that pairs indie-minded inventors, filmmakers and entrepreneurs with online investors, fully funded more than 18,000 projects in 2012. The website's year-end analysis shows that more than 2.2 million people pledged a total of nearly $320 million. 17 projects raised more than $1 million each
Employers around the world are more optimistic about business growth and think more money will be spent on talent development this year. That's according to a Right Management survey of more than 2,000 senior human resource executives in 14 countries. In the US, the number of job openings spiked again in March.
Loans to businesses have risen to a record high and bank executives say they are increasingly optimistic about the U.S. economy. Increasing demand for bank loans often is a prelude to higher economic growth
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