California is rightfully lauded for its world-leading energy policy. Yet I often hear from business and political leaders that the state could do much more. A new report published by Pacific Environment presents a vision for the Bay Area in which available energy technologies and policy tools are fully implemented. The roadmap finds that local ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 21:53

Rick Santorum?s attack on pornography isn?t paying off. And that?s just the start of his mounting problems. Santorum?s remarkable ability to transform relatively irrelevant issues into politically relevant controversies might keep him under the media spotlight, but actual voters are showing signs of losing interest ? fast. Santorum was blown out of the water in ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 18:46

Sany ??Heavy Equipment International,?? the Hong Kong-listed coal mining equipment arm of the Sany Group empire led by Chinese billionaire Liang Wengen, said last night net income rose by 15% to $122 million in 2011, and that it saw good future prospects. ??Sales?? in 2011 increased by 41% to $600 million. "Demand for new equipment ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 04:56

SAP shares are getting a boost this morning from Bernstein Research analysts Mark Moerdler and Rod Bourgeois, who this morning took an in-depth look at the prospects for the German software giant?s HANA in-memory database offering and came away impressed. Bernstein upped their rating on the stock to Outperform from Market Perform, with a new ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:54

Fairmont Buys Hotel In Sonoma, Calif. Shortly After Alwaleed Agrees To Sell The Fairmont San Francisco.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 23:27

If you've stopped at a gas station lately, you might have been shocked to see the price on the big signs. Even if your gas station charges a different amount for credit card users than for cash customers, sometimes called a "cash discount" even though it's the cash price that's competitive with other stations, the ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 19:52

Michelle You speaks about music and her startup Songkick at SXSW. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the SXSW ?Can Social Music Save the Music Industry?? panel, the panel discussed the direct-to-fan relationship with social media. Michelle You, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Songkick introduced herself by stating she started Songkick ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 00:23

Science fiction??film-making??has fallen on hard times, though not for lack of money.?? What has been missing from the genre is far more fundamental than money and in far shorter supply - originality. We've had Avatar, a groundbreaking film to be sure, but only because it raised the technological bar.?? We can credit it with introducing ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 07:46

Stronger global governance is needed to mitigate human impacts on the earth's climate and to ensure sustainable development, according to 32 scientists who published a policy paper in the journal Science. Current institutions, including the United Nations, have shown themselves inadequate, they say, to the necessities now facing humanity.

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 22:25

ORLANDO ? Sean Day[9] Plott has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in eSports today. The former StarCraft: Brood War pro gamer has parlayed his Masters degree in Interactive Media at the university of Southern California into a streaming empire with Day[9]TV. Plott serves as a StarCraft II commentator for Major League Gaming ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 17:55