Following close on the heels of CNN's Web site overhaul, Reuters has completely revamped its home page. The new effort is startlingly spartan in its minimalism--and it's absolutely designed to appeal to a broad consumer audience. ...READ»
The holiday shopping season is already upon us, and just in time for the rush are two books centered on consumerism. With our purse strings at stake, we pit the reads against each other.READ»
It seems that not a day goes by that I don’t read about another once highly-regarded magazine or newspaper filing Chapter 11 or closing up shop. I feel sad, yet somewhat responsible, for its demise like so many other well-known and ...READ»
Source code for Wal-Mart's point-of-sale computer system was hacked and siphoned into Eastern European computers in 2005 and 2006, Wired.com reported today. The scale of the attack calls into question whether major retailers have been ...READ»
Is the tech sector weaker than we think?
Just last week, analysts were abuzz over buoying technology stocks: The tech-heavy Nasdaq hit 2,000 points on news that chip demand was once again rising. Philadelphia's Semiconductor Index, ...READ»
The unusually long contract between Apple and AT&T for the sale of the iPhone may prompt the Department of Justice to look into charging large telecom providers with anticompetitive practices. According to the Wall Street ...READ»
"Your movie made me physically sick," one audience member told Gary Hustwit (left), the director of Objectified, the eagerly anticipated film about industrial design, last night at a screening in New York.
Far from ...READ»
Fast Company likes to cover businesses that do well by doing good. But sometimes the opposite is equally true. Earlier this year, the nation's leading tax-preparing company paid $4.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit ...READ»
It's tax time, and many of us will heed the IRS' suggestion to download forms and file electronically. But as I learned, malicious black hat hackers have hijacked Google's IRS search results to deliver nasty malware. Here’s how. READ»
Global economic crisis. Financial collapse. The current climate. Whatever term you want to use to describe our present state of affairs, I've heard it in the halls and meeting rooms at the Skoll World Forum on Social ...READ»
Samsung and Toshiba may be the most sustainable brands for consumer laptop and PC buyers, but Dell wins out with the IT crowd according to a new study from Green Factor. Marketing intelligence firm Strategic Oxygen surveyed over ...READ»
Sean O'Connor has struggled with a monster.
"Grocery is the biggest business you never think about," he says. "It moves incredibly slowly. We had no idea of the hurdles."
He should know. He's spent the ...READ»
Here's a new approach to teaching financial literacy: a video game in which you play the business manager of a free-spending celebrity, trying to satisfy her wish list while keeping her out of the red.
The game is no World of ...READ»
Turns out that we as consumers can be easily manipulated -- and it's probably happening far more often that we'd like to imagine. A couple of studies released this year draw attention to this. The first demonstrates that consumers ...READ»
Having abandoned the camera business a year ago, Polaroid
announced that it is now fleeing the film business as well. The final,
symbolic demise of the once mind-blowing technology comes as no
surprise, given that digital ...READ»
