Coal may be the most loathed energy source among sustainability advocates, but it isn't going anywhere, especially now that governments are investing billions in carbon capture and sequestration projects for coal plants. Any country with significant coal reserves and a government that pays little attention to safety and environmental hazards stands to profit handsomely.
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Feed SubscriptionPC Industry Is Apple’s Plaything
Apple has some hot products on sale, and its designs push many an envelope. But are its decisions skewing the PC industry somewhat
Read More »Hackers Discover Google’s Unreleased Cloud-Based Music Service
Google 's cloud-based music service may already be up and running--if you know where to look for it. A hacker from the XDA-Dev forum found something interesting when he forced the Motorola Xoom Android tablet's music app onto his Android smartphone: a "Sync Music" feature. So the hacker tested the out the feature
Read More »AT&T to More Sluggish Verizon: Can You Hear Me Now?
We wondered if this would be true: An investigation into Verizon's iPhone data performance reveals a sad reality.
Read More »The Mysterious Case of the $12,500 Groupon Discount
When is a coupon too big? Meet the jumbo Groupon. By now you're familiar with Groupon deals.
Read More »Are You Afraid of Good Ideas?
In this excerpt from his new book Poke the Box, author Seth Godin discusses people who, because of fear, save up ideas without acting on them. Are you one of those people? One of the people with too many good ideas?
Read More »Warner Bros. to Offer Facebook Movies on Demand: Will Other Studios Follow Suit?
Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that it will offer movies directly for rent or purchase through Facebook, becoming the first Hollywood studio to introduce a video-on-demand service on the world's largest social network. So far, only one title is available for rent--Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight--but Warner says it will roll out more films in the coming months.
Read More »What Really Scares Entrepreneurs?
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »Should Financial Literacy Be Mandatory?
British MPs want compulsory finance education in schools, but there's mixed evidence on effectiveness. At the epicenter of the housing crisis was a black hole of financial literacy--masses of consumers making calculations with unrealistic mathematical expectations . To avert another capitalist catastrophe, 300 British MPs are calling for mandatory personal finance education
Read More »Mardi Gras Mambo
For many Americans, New Orleans and Mardi Gras are near synonymous -- and last year’s Carnival marked a 25-year high in partygoers visiting the Big Easy.
Read More »Nearly 20% of Female Chinese Managers Are CEOs
Among China's female workforce in managerial positions, 19% hold the title of CEO, according to the Grant Thornton Business Report released this week . That's 10% higher than averages in Europe and 14% higher than averages in the United States, according to the report. Thailand came in first at a whopping 30% of female managers holding the title of CEO and Taiwan came in third at 18%, pointing to a possible emerging trend in Asia for women to more routinely hold the position of CEO.
Read More »Our Robot Overlords Will Walk Like Us–And Among Us
Today's robots may be astonishing , scary, or militarily useful , but they rarely move with all the occasional grace, jitters, and other subtle quirks that humans have.
Read More »Road Warriors Rejoice! LiquidSpace Finds You a Connected Place to Work
Just in time for SXSW, the app finds free or for-rent workspace for freelancers and office owners looking to rent unused offices and conference rooms.
Read More »Is This Charlie Sheen’s Social Media Guru?
He claims so.
Read More »Women Farmers a Force in Fighting Global Food Shortages: Report
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its 2011 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report this week, just in time for today's International Women's Day.
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