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Emitting More Greenhouse Gases Lowers Company Stocks

According to a new analysis conducted by an international team of researchers, it would appear that companies experience a diminishing of their stock value that is directly proportional to the amount of greenhouse gases their operations are emitting. Experts from the University of California in Davis (UCD), the Unive...

25 January 2011
05:04 GMT

The Big City Makes People Care About the Planet

According to a new research paper published this week in the British journal Environmental Conservation, it would appear that people who live in, or move to, big cities tend to care more about Earth and the environment than others who don't live in metropolises. The research was conducted so that authorities cou...

18 January 2011
09:01 GMT

European Companies Call for Larger Emissions Cuts

In a surprising move, 29 large European companies and corporations called for more severe emissions reduction measures, of up to 30 percent by 2020, from levels recorded in 1990. In a joint statement, representatives from these companies said that the measure will help strengthen the future of the European economy, w...

14 October 2010
06:00 GMT

Advertising Companies Want to Get Inside Our Heads

For many years, experts have argued that the brain is the final frontier in advertising. There are many types of ads in circulation today, and almost all angles of approach have been exhausted. Some companies have turned to placing video cameras on billboards. These machines see what people stop in front of the ads, ...

18 March 2010
09:57 GMT

Company Charity More Present in Countries Lacking Human Rights

According to new statistics from the UK, British companies that operate in countries that lack basic civil and human rights regulations are likely to donate 70 percent more money to charity than similar firms conducting their activities in nations where such regulations exist. The result of the new study again certif...

2 April 2009
04:22 GMT

Love Is Born at the Office

A new online study shows that 31 percent of all marriages in the United States take place between people who meet at the workplace, in the office. As far as dating is concerned, more than 40 percent of employed Americans have dated a co-worker over the last years. Many of the people responding to the survey said that...

12 February 2009
06:55 GMT

Companies Don't Usually Answer to Customers' Emails

Strike Force Sales, an Australian company that undertakes professional prospectings of the market, conducted a survey to see how promptly companies replied to customers' emails. The author of the study, Chris Moriarty, Managing Director of the company, is still waiting for an answer to an email sent more than 8 ...

31 July 2008
03:18 GMT

The Web Could Bring Companies Down!

The web is a great place for business, everybody knows that. Unfortunately, it's also the best place for scams! But scams are not the worst, hackers are not to mention viruses. So how can the web bring a company down? Some people say that it's not possible, but just let me explain.For one thing, if you hav...

8 October 2007
06:38 GMT

Security Breaches Two Times Worse This Year Than The Last One

When it comes to security breaches, nowadays, numbers go sky high. And when I say numbers, I mean everything - money spent, people affected, number of credentials stolen etc etc. Hackers have started to score big - they go for the giants, hit them hard, steal data then launch huge spam-scam campaigns or who knows wha...

20 September 2007
10:42 GMT


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