Bank examiners from the Federal Reserve and the Comptroller of the Currency are inspecting the books of the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, Fannie Mae...

How much do you have?A proposal outlined by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson - if approved by Congress - would offer explicit backing for the two government-sponsored...

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Oh sure, Rock Port, Missouri managed to snag the title of being "100% wind powered," but Texas' new plan will make the Show Me state's gusty...

While some states are taking adequate steps to address the cost of retiree health-care benefits, others - including New Jersey, New York, California and North Carolina -...

This is a guest post written by Bernard Moon, Vice President of the Lunsford Group, a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research &...

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” - Anonymous From childhood we are sold on an ideal image of beauty, one few of us ever see...

It is becoming conventional wisdom (uh-oh) that a large part of the strategy for reducing dependence on imported oil is to use electricity from sources like wind...

I've got a story in today's Toronto Star about the frustration of being a Canadian-based geothermal developer forced to find and develop projects in the United States and...

If you think Microsoft’s been spending like crazy in the online space, you ain’t seen nothing yet. (And that’s not counting when or if Microsoft’s...

I’ve written a fair amount about auto marketing to gays and lesbians and offered advice to carmakers for ways to bolster market share in a weakening economy. Several...

Eyebrows were raised when Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog in her will, and they were raised even farther when it was learned recently that she had signed a...

Very soon, Cyalume sticks (aka glow sticks) will be history. MPK CO. has invented a new kind of light source called Litroenergy that acts somewhat like a glow stick, but...

Seth Godin says smart customers are better:When you dumb stuff down, you know what you get?Dumb customers.And (I'm generalizing here) dumb customers don't spend...

You’d think that a completely new Automatic Uploader would have been all for today, especially after a new release of the Firefox Uploader yesterday and a...

Continuing in our series which takes a closer look at each step in the Blue Ocean strategic sequence, our focus advances to the fifth step — partnering.  Once...

Anne Thompson of Variety posts the text of a keynote address that Mark Gill of the Film Department (and formerly of Warner Independent and Miramax) gave over the weekend...

As you have probably heard by now, all communication between Yahoo and Microsoft has been broken off. Just a couple of months ago it appeared that the two companies...