Fortune |
Elon Musk Says SolarCity Will Sell a Roof Integrated With Solar Panels
Fortune “It's not a thing on the roof, it's the roof,” says Musk. Solar installer SolarCity, which is in the process of being acquired by electric car maker Tesla, plans to develop and sell a roof integrated with solar panels. Currently the company installs … SolarCity Losses Widen on Higher ExpensesWall Street Journal SolarCity reports $250 million quarterly loss, projects sales growthLos Angeles Times SolarCity losses grow as shareholders weigh Tesla dealThe Detroit News SFGate –Seeking Alpha –Reuters –Benzinga all 76 news articles » |
Wall Street Journal |
Disney Makes Bet on Baseball Streaming
Wall Street Journal One year after its shares began a 12% slide driven by concerns over ESPN's growth trajectory, Walt Disney Co. DIS 0.96 % has come up with an answer for Wall Street: The media giant said Tuesday it will spend $1 billion to acquire a 33% stake in BAMTech … Disney's Movie Hits Overshadow Lackluster TV ResultsNew York Times Walt Disney Co. buys stake in video streaming service BAMTechLos Angeles Times Disney Hedges Its Bets on TV With BAMTech Stake and ESPN StreamingFortune Sarasota Herald-Tribune –The Verge –MarketWatch –Washington Post all 191 news articles » |
Kansas City Star |
PG&E Guilty of Safety Violations Stemming From Fatal Blast
Bloomberg PG&E Corp. was found guilty of safety violations six years after one of its natural gas pipelines blew up and killed eight people in California. The verdict reached Tuesday by a San Francisco federal court jury stains the reputation of California's … California Utility Found Guilty of Violations in 2010 Gas Explosion That Killed 8New York Times Pacific Gas & Electric Convicted of Misleading Investigators After Pipeline BlastWall Street Journal Utility Giant PG&E Convicted of Violating Gas Pipeline Safety LawsNPR Reuters –SFGate –Patch.com –The Mercury News all 27 news articles » |
Washington Post |
Presidential candidates offer platitudes but no real plans to help black and Latino voters
Washington Post To hear the presidential candidates tell it, the future for African Americans and Latinos will be great. More jobs. Better schools. Affordable housing. Fewer inmates. Less killing. More equality. But hardly anyone ever asks how they intend to make it … Blacks will take hundreds of years to catch up to white wealthCNNMoney It Could Take 2 Centuries For Racial Wealth Disparities to DissipateCityLab STUDY: Blacks Centuries Behind Whites in Wealth DevelopmentColorLines magazine Wall Street Journal (blog) –CNBC –Daily Mail –Fortune all 30 news articles » |
CNBC |
OPEC using 'smoke and mirrors' to boost oil prices
CNBC Just the whiff of an OPEC meeting has driven oil prices higher, squeezed shorts in the futures market — and made further inaction by the cartel more likely. But that hasn't stopped market chatter that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries … Oil Falls on US Production ForecastWall Street Journal Oil dips on oversupply; calls for producer meeting met with scepticismReuters Oil futures end lower as traders ponder supply, OPECMarketWatch FuelFix (blog) –USA TODAY –Nasdaq –TheStreet.com all 374 news articles » |
Reuters |
US productivity falls for third consecutive quarter
Reuters WASHINGTON U.S. worker productivity fell for the third straight quarter in the spring this year, suggesting that corporate profits may continue to decline and wage growth may remain sluggish. The Labor Department said on Tuesday that productivity … Why Did Productivity Fall? Look To The Price of Oil and GasWall Street Journal (blog) Productivity drop renews questions on the economy's healthUSA TODAY U.S. Productivity Unexpectedly Falls for Third Straight QuarterBloomberg Forbes –KOMO News –Nasdaq –Toledo Blade all 46 news articles » |
Amid growing awareness of the huge energy appetite of computer processing and particularly high end graphics, computer chip-maker AMD releases a more energy efficient chip — and a study to prove it.
If the world is to prevent global temperatures from rising another 2 degrees Celsius, we will need to remove some carbon from the air. Here are some promising innovative attempts to do so.
Wall Street Journal |
UK Retail Sales Defy Brexit Vote
Wall Street Journal LONDON—U. K. retail sales increased in July, according to a survey by a retail trade group, an early indicator that consumers didn't slow spending in the immediate wake of Britain's vote to leave the European Union. The upbeat data follow a series of … UK retail spending rebounds in July by most in six months: BRCCNBC Brexit hasn't slowed down British shoppersBusiness Insider UK Consumers Embrace 'Feel Good Factor' After Brexit And Carry On Spending, Despite 'Project Fear'Breitbart News Irish Examiner –BBC News –TheStreet.com –Daily Mail all 69 news articles » |
The “supermajors” will have to make some drastic financial changes if they don’t want go the way of the dinosaur.