washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY -- In this nation that embraced one of the world's most aggressive campaigns against global warming, the Pokropp family can almost hear the cha-ching when switching off their lights.
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Achenblog:
You may have read about the computer hackers who stole years of emails that show climate scientists being nasty and cranky (for example, "Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I'll be tempted to beat the crap out of him") and, if you believe the global-warming-deniers, manipulating the climate data. This is (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, but for folks who don’t want to read the blow-by-blow description, here’s a summary.Perhaps the most (Read More)
Reuters: Environment:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Barack Obama and India's prime minister meet next week to talk about climate change the leaders will focus on green technologies rather than narrowing the global divide on greenhouse gas emissions goals, the chairman of the U.N.'s climate science panel said.
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Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures rose Friday for a sixth straight session to a new record high, marking their third weekly gain, as continued worries over a weaker dollar and global inflation encouraged investors to buy gold as a safe asset. Gold for December delivery, the most actively traded contract, rose $4.90, or (Read More)
India Times:
Bloomberg may lay off about 130 employees in BusinessWeek, which the global financial news and data provider acquired recently, says a media report. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Friday that the global economy is far from a self-sustainable recovery. "It's too early to say we're beyond the crisis. We're still quite far away from a self-supporting [economic] recovery," he said in a speech at the Frankfurt European Banking Cong (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble said Friday that the global economy is far from a self-sustainable recovery. "It's too early to say we're beyond the crisis. We're still quite far away from a self-supporting [economic] recovery," he said in a speech at the Frankfurt European Banking Congr (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Axel Weber, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, defended the role of regulators and monetary policy on Friday, saying they were not to blame for the global financial crisis. "Monetary policy was not part of the culprit. Banks have to adjust down their profit aspirations in a low-interest-rate en (Read More)
Reuters:
DUBAI (Reuters) - The global economy is heading toward a sustained recovery but given the risks of another downturn it is too soon to withdraw stimulus, International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky said on Friday.
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Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- J.P. Morgan Global Equity Research on Wednesday upgraded shares of Reynolds American to neutral from underweight and raised the stock's price target to $57 a share from $47 a share. Analysts said they were impressed with Reynolds' third quarter results. They also cited Pall Mall's volume momentum (Read More)
Reuters:
SYDNEY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - International news agency
Reuters has suspended coverage of Cricket Australia matches and
events for a second season because of a long-running dispute
over media rights and freedom of the press.
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Mashable!:
Twitter’s translation project is rolling along rather quickly now. Earlier in the month Twitter launched in Spanish, and as of today, Twitter is now available in French.The company took to their blog and penned a post in French to announce the news, which lets users switch their language to French from within the Settings a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
“I’m not skeptical that the Smart Grid should exist,” famed Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla said, kicking off his conversation with VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall at GreenBeat 2009. “I wouldn’t be here if I was.” Khosla has been unofficially dubbed a Smart Grid skeptic because his venture firm Khosla Ventures has yet (Read More)