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02/04/2012 07:27 AMLooking Forward, Fiji Turns to Its Canoeing Past The traditional canoe is at the center of several projects aimed at reducing Fiji’s energy consumption, providing cheaper transport, keeping local traditions alive and giving a boost to tourism.
02/04/2012 06:34 AMJanuary Jobs Report Reflects Hope a Recovery Is Blooming The front wheels have lifted off the runway. Now, Americans are waiting to see if the economy can truly get aloft.
02/04/2012 06:27 AMHungary’s Malev Airline Halts Flights The money-losing airline was placed under control of a bankruptcy trustee, prompting creditors to begin seizing its planes outside the country.
02/04/2012 08:11 AME.U. Presses Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes Viviane Reding, the European Union justice commissioner, is pressing Google to halt changes to its privacy policies while the implications for personal data protection are being explored.
02/04/2012 06:00 AMZuckerberg’s Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options with an estimated value of $5 billion ahead of Facebook’s initial public offering, which will translate into a big tax benefit for the company.
02/04/2012 09:23 AMThe Saturday Profile: Sergei Kolesnikov Aims to Expose Corruption of Putin Era Sergei Kolesnikov became a prosperous businessman and part of the crony capitalist web surrounding Vladimir V. Putin. Now he is waging a risky campaign to expose corruption.
02/04/2012 06:43 AMF.B.I. Admits Hacker Group’s Eavesdropping The group known as Anonymous listened in on a call between the bureau, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies about their joint investigation of the group and its allies.
02/04/2012 06:48 AMCaterpillar to Close Assembly Factory in Canada The company planned to move locomotive production to other operations in North and South America after contract talks with unionized workers soured.
02/04/2012 04:41 AMDealBook: Goldman Gives Blankfein $7 Million Stock Award With a $2 million base salary, the 2011 pay package for Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, so far totals $9 million. Goldman has not yet disclosed the size of his cash bonus.
02/04/2012 06:56 AMGreek Premier Is Tested in Impasse Over Pay Cuts Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faces a deadlock over proposed demands by Greece’s foreign lenders to reduce private-sector wages in exchange for aid the country needs to prevent default.
02/03/2012 03:28 PMSpain Orders Banks to Set Aside More Money for Problem Property Assets The new rules, to be adopted by decree Friday, will require Spanish banks to set aside funds equivalent to 80 percent of their real estate debts to help shore up the troubled sector.
02/03/2012 03:30 PMChina Weighs Helping a European Debt Rescue Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said China might be willing to help finance Europe’s stabilization by working with the International Monetary Fund.
02/02/2012 11:04 PMDealBook: Glencore and Xstrata in Talks for $80 Billion Deal Glencore International, the biggest commodities trading company in the world, has approached the mining company Xstrata about a takeover, a long-anticipated deal that would create a company with a market value of about $80 billion.
02/03/2012 04:48 PMEx-Partner Says Stanford Was ‘Dictatorial’ in Fraud Case James Davis, former chief financial officer of the Stanford Financial Group, testified against R. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of defrauding investors in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
02/03/2012 12:25 AMDealBook: Goldman at a P.R. Crossroads News that Goldman Sachs is wooing a former Treasury official has had Wall Street buzzing with talk that Lucas van Praag may be leaving the firm.
02/03/2012 04:01 PMIndian Court Cancels Contentious Wireless Licenses The ruling by the Supreme Court was a rebuke to the government and came after years of litigation over a scandal involving telecommunications licenses sold at below-market prices.
02/03/2012 03:53 PMArmy Studies Workout Supplements After 2 Deaths The military has removed dietary supplements containing the ingredient dimethylamylamine from stores on its bases, though the products are widely available elsewhere in the country.
02/03/2012 06:37 PMIncoming Chief Takes On a Sony That Is a Shadow of Its Former Self The company warned it expected to post a fourth consecutive annual loss, of $2.9 billion, as sluggish sales and natural disasters weighed on its bottom line.
02/04/2012 02:00 AMGianpiero Moretti, Modernizer of Racecar Steering Wheels, Dies at 71 Mr. Moretti started his automotive accessories company Momo in 1966, and it expanded to make an array of racing products.
02/04/2012 06:51 AMWorld Briefing | The Americas: Ecuador: Chevron Will Not Apologize for Pollution, Even to Save $8.5 Billion Chevron said Friday that it had no intention of apologizing for the environmental damage to the Amazon rain forest for which an Ecuadorean court ruled it responsible.
02/04/2012 06:05 AMCommon Sense: At 102%, His Tax Rate Takes the Cake - Common Sense In submissions of tax burdens from readers, James Ross, founder and managing member of the investment firm Rossrock, was on a perch all his own.
02/04/2012 06:48 AMWealth Matters: Advantages and Risks of Gingrich’s S Corporation Newt Gingrich set up his speaking and consulting business as an S corporation, which exempted this portion of his income from Medicare taxes, an unusual move for a business based on services.
02/04/2012 06:06 AMYour Money: Want Better Car Insurance Rates? You Have to Make the Call - Your Money A retiree qualified for lower car insurance premiums, but found that out only after a chance piece of mail prodded him to call his insurer.
02/04/2012 06:20 AMOff the Charts: A Long-Term Slide in Growth for Industrialized Economies The major developed countries are all experiencing slowdowns in growth, a trend the International Monetary Fund’s new projections indicate will continue.
02/04/2012 03:01 AMThe Week’s Business News in Pictures Facebook filed to go public, minting new millionaires while cementing Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership role; the housing market continued to fall, but the employment picture is brighter; and advertisers prepared for the Super Bowl, many by releasing their big, splashy commercials in advance on the Web.
01/30/2012 05:41 PMThe iEconomy: Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China A staggering manufacturing system in China has made it possible for Apple and other companies to make devices almost as quickly as they can be dreamed up, but for workers, it can be dangerous.
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