Topic: BP plc

iFive: Zuck on His Biopic, iLife Rumors, RIM vs. Jobs, Street Artist J R Nabs Ted Prize, the Gulf at Six Months

The military has opened its doors to openly gay recruits for the first time--but cautions that policy could change again in the future, citing pending court cases. Justice may tarry, but business innovation waits for no one! We at ...READ»

Chevron's New Ad Campaign Is a Slick Yes Men Hoax [Update]

Part of the genius of the Yes Men is that they really know when to pull the trigger on a good prank. We bit. READ»

BP, Arco Stations to Get Blink Electric Vehicle Fast Chargers

ECOtality announced this week that 45 BP and Arco gas stations in Arizona, California, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington will play host to the company's new 480-volt Blink fast chargers. READ»

Most Wanted Bosses: Mark Zuckerberg Ranks Low, Oprah High

A new poll suggests Mark Zuckerberg, Simon Cowell, and Tony Hayward are far from ideal bosses.READ»

MacArthur Genius Professor Dawdy and Her Plans for New Orleans

Shannon Lee gives Fast Company the scoop on where the $500,000 will go.READ»

Why Environmental Activists Embrace Social Media

Six months after the BP oil spill, it’s clear that in the age of social media, a company can’t spin and rebrand its way out of a mess like it used to.READ»

Gulf Coast Oil's Disappearing Act Comes to an End

Giving the lie to claims that the oil had "disappeared," Greenpeace scientists went out sampling and found oil as far away as 300 miles from the spill site.READ»

Surprise! BP's Internal Deepwater Horizon Investigation Is Flawed

A panel from the National Academy of Engineering is publicly questioning BP's findings. READ»

First Peer-Reviewed Numbers on BP Oil Spill Disaster Released

The Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory reveals how many millions of barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico.READ»

Terry Hazen on Bacteria Eating Gulf Oil Spill Plume

Bacteria have been rapidly eating a long undersea plume of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Terry Hazen, a microbial ecologist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his team published their research on these bacteria in the journal "Science."READ»

iFive: AT&T Facebook Protest, Craigslist U.S. Defeat, Yahoo Brain Drain, Alzheimer's Drugs, BP Spreads the Blame

Having survived destruction at the hands of two asteroids yesterday, the world spun on through the night and more news happened READ»

Top Ten Reasons Why BP's Advertising Is a Disaster

BP's PR efforts around the Deepwater Horizon disaster have pitted traditional media (such as TV and newspaper ads) against social media (such as the Boycott BP page on Facebook that has received close to a million "Likes" or the BP logo competition run by Greenpeace).READ»

Google Gets Psychic With Google Instant

Who needs to think when Google can do it for you? That seems to be the premise of Google Instant, a "search enhancement" rolled out by Google this morning.READ»

What Caused BP's Deepwater Horizon Disaster?

The smoke has literally cleared from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Now comes the dirty work of figuring out who to blame.READ»

8 of the Most Toxic Energy Projects on the Planet

BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico served as a wake-up call for many of us who never before paid attention to the destructive energy projects happening all around the world. But while Deepwater Horizon may have attracted the lion's share of media attention this past Spring and Summer, there are a number of other toxic projects still going on. We look at some of the worst.READ»

What Are BP, Apple, Amazon, and Others Spending on Google Advertising?

AdAge snagged a rare document laying out how much individual companies are spending on Google search advertising. An unsurprising new entry: BP, spending millions of dollars to rehab its image.READ»

iFive: Another Rig Explosion, NASA's Mine Solutions, Impossible Soccer Goals, China's Great Jam, Korean Cash

Innovation doesn't sleep, even though you do: But it might get stuck in huge Chinese traffic jamsREAD»

Funny or Die Relies on Social Networks and Wit in Winging Its Success

Succeeds in the moment with a blazing wit -- and a matching business model.READ»

Now: September 2010

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GM Files Trademark for "Range Anxiety"

GM attempts to cover all its bases.READ»

BP Report Points Finger at Own Engineers for Deepwater Blowout

The explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon was caused by a BP engineering error, says the firm's official report into the catastrophe. Although it is not due to be released for another ten days, the report says that an employee ...READ»

50th Anniversary of OPEC

On September 20, BP hits the five-month mark since its Deepwater Horizon spill began ravaging the Gulf of Mexico. But five months of oily controversy is nothing on five decades. Today, oil behemoth OPEC blows out the candles on 50 ...READ»

iFive: Wheat Genome Mapped, How BP Capped Well, Chilean Miners Look Well, Apple's New Kit, MIT Tech Review's Young Innovators

Innovation. It's out there.READ»

BP Gives Up Arctic Drilling Dreams

But the Gulf-scarred company isn't the only oil giant with designs on drilling at the top of the world.READ»

Shell Oil Bets $2 Billion on ... Sugar?

Add Shell to the growing list of oil companies investing in alternative energy sources: in this case, sugarcane.READ»