USA TODAY |
Walmart names its 25 hottest toys for holidays: Get in line now
USA TODAY A racing play set, a Disney princess carriage and a drone are among Walmart's top toy picks for the upcoming holiday shopping season. The world's largest retailer, relying on the recommendations of hundreds of pint-sized experts — children ranging … 'Star Wars' redux: Wal-Mart bets on familiar names this holidayCNBC What's on Kids' Holiday Toy Wish Lists? Walmart Unveils its Top Toys, Launches LayawayBusiness Wire (press release) Hoping for insight on future sales, Wal-Mart unveils its list of 25 hottest toys for holiday seasonPittsburgh Post-Gazette TODAYonline all 6 news articles » |
Wall Street Journal |
Asia Manufacturing Shifts Into Gear
Wall Street Journal Could Asia's manufacturing sector finally be catching a break? Economic gauges for August from around the region released Thursday appeared to suggest so. Purchasing managers' indexes for Asia-Pacific and South Korean trade data showed signs of … Most Asia markets open lower, weighed by fresh drop in oil pricesCNBC Asian factories hobble as soft global demand hits salesReuters India manufacturing at a 13-month highMarketWatch Yahoo Finance –Business Insider –Nasdaq –Financial Times all 135 news articles » |
Wall Street Journal |
Former Air China Manager Charged With Smuggling in US for Chinese Military
Wall Street Journal Prosecutors charged a former Air China Ltd. AIRYY 0.48 % manager Wednesday with smuggling packages out of the U.S. to China on behalf of Chinese military officials stationed at the country's New York-based mission to the United Nations, the latest turn … Ex-Air China worker charged by US for smuggling for Chinese militaryReuters Ex-Air China manager charged in US with smuggling for Chinese militaryBBC News Ex-airline manager in U.S. accused of smuggling for Chinese militaryCNNMoney Bloomberg –Courthouse News Service –Newsday all 9 news articles » |
Wall Street Journal |
Elon Musk Faces Cash Squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity
Wall Street Journal Two pillars of Elon Musk's empire are facing financial crunches as the entrepreneur seeks to combine the two companies through a controversial acquisition. Tesla Motors Inc., TSLA 0.32 % which makes electric cars, disclosed in a securities filing … 5 Things We Just Learned About the Tesla-SolarCity DealFortune Musk Talked Merger With SolarCity CEO Before Sale of StockBloomberg Elon Musk: Yep, We've Ordered Extreme Disaster, We Must Go To War … Or Get Our Asses To MarsCleanTechnica Reuters –BGR –Houston Chronicle –Business Insider all 357 news articles » |
Nation’s Restaurant News |
Mike Andres to retire as president of McDonald's USA
Nation’s Restaurant News Mike Andres, president of McDonald's Corp.'s U.S. division and a key figure at the forefront of the chain's domestic turnaround over the past 18 months, is retiring at the end of the year, the company said on Wednesday. Chris Kempczinski, currently the … McDonald's Has Lost the Mastermind of Its Epic U.S. TurnaroundTheStreet.com McDonald's taps relative outsider to lead key US businessU.S. News & World Report McDonald's US Chief Mike Andres to RetireWall Street Journal Press Herald –Business Insider –Bloomberg –Yahoo Finance all 18 news articles » |
At VERGE 15, Steve Jurvetson talks about being an early VC investor in Tesla and how the pattern recognition and optimization capabilities of “deep learning” software will help us humans adapt to a world that is becoming increasingly unpredictable due to climate change. “Instead of programming something to do something, you generate a computer program that is itself, like our brain, capable of learning anything,” said Jurvetson.
A new set of six principles are providing momentum to achieving cleaner data centers.
Business Insider |
This graphic shows how out-of-control San Francisco housing prices have gotten
Business Insider If you're at all attuned to America's real estate market, you've heard about San Francisco's ongoing housing crisis. Residents have been doing crazy things to survive the sky-high cost of living, from camping out in Google's parking lot to taking up … Here's Another Stealth Way the Rich Are Getting RicherYahoo Finance Inequality is widening, even in real estateWYFF Greenville City-by-city look at house prices in June, as San Francisco's growth slowsMarketWatch |
RE100, REBA, BRC, WRI, WWF… The list of groups to help companies buy renewable energy can look like a game of Boggle. We break it all down here.
The nation’s capital seeks to control flooding with help from its credit-trade system.