CNNMoney.com | Jul. 18, 2008
Freddie Mac Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Syron pocketed nearly $19.8 million in compensation last year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday, even though the mortgage company's stock lost half its value in 2007.

By William Spain & Steve Goldstein | MarketWatch.com | Jul. 14, 2008
Anheuser-Busch Cos. has approved a $52 billion takeover bid by InBev in a deal that will create the world's largest beer maker and transfer ownership of the iconic American brewer to the Belgian-Brazilian giant.

TradingMarkets.com | Jul. 10, 2008
At least 12 babies who were part of a clinical study to test the effectiveness of a vaccine against pneumonia have died over the past year in Argentina, the local press reported Thursday.

By Tom Corelis  | The Daily Tech | Jul. 3, 2008
As part of its $1 billion lawsuit against user-video site YouTube, Viacom will receive a complete log of all users’ activities, which will include a list of usernames, IP addresses, and videos that each account has viewed in the past.

By John F. McManus | John Birch Society | Jun. 26, 2008
According to a new law passed by Congress, the incandescent light bulb will be outlawed for use by 2014. All Americans will be forced to purchase the new compact fluorescent bulbs that are not only potentially toxic, they are made only in China.

By Hashem Kalentari | Reuters | Jun. 17, 2008
"At a time when the growth of consumption is lower than the growth of production and the market is full of oil, prices are rising and this trend is completely fake and imposed," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech.

By Andrew E. Kramer | NY Times | Jun. 19, 2008
Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

By James Risen | The NY Times | Jun. 17, 2008
The Army official who managed the Pentagon’s largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has provided food, housing and other services to American troops.

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By Margaret Cronin Fisk | Bloomberg.com | Jun. 7, 2008
Taser International Inc., the largest stun-gun maker, lost a $6.2 million jury verdict over the death of a California man who died after police shot him multiple times with the weapon. The defeat is the first for Taser in a product- liability claim.

By Jason Leopold | Intelligence Daily | June 4, 2008
In-depth investigation shows how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001.

By Mark Gregory | BBC | Jun 4, 2008
Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global market for carbon credits has been uncovered by a BBC World Service investigation. The credits are generated by a United Nations-run scheme called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

By Kurt Opsahl | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Jun. 2, 2008
The telecoms who are being sued for their cooperation in the government's illegal warrantless surveillance program have received billions in government contracts.

By Suzanne Kapner | CNN Money | May 30, 2008
With gas, grain, and dairy prices exploding, you'd think the biggest seller of corn flakes and Cocoa Puffs would be getting hit by rising food costs. But Wal-Mart has temporarily rolled back prices on hundreds of food items by as much as 30% this year. How? By pressuring vendors to take costs out of the supply chain.