Crash Survival Zone

Will we be using Google Wave in our work, financial and personal lives?  And if so, how?
In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it. Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit [...]

It’s not just erratic gas prices and a bad economy that’s hurting automakers. It may be that Americans are changing.

By Nate Silver

This is surely one of the signs of the apocalypse: Americans aren’t driving as much as they used to.
In January, according to statistics compiled by the Federal Highway Administration, Americans drove a collective 222 [...]

The New Economy

It’s time to stop whining. The economy might be melting down like a pat of butter on a hot Hummer roof, but for some people — you, maybe? — this could be a very good thing.

Here’s why. At no other time in recent history has it been easier or cheaper to start a [...]

Consumers have begun reducing their cell phone use to save money in the face of the sharp economic downturn, according to a new survey.

Conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for the New Millennium Research Council, the survey of 2,005 Americans found that 39 percent of those with contract-based cell phones are likely to cut back their [...]

In the stem cell gold rush, it might pay to avoid the diggers and invest in the companies that sell the shovels.

Biotechs working on cell treatments seem poised to profit from President Obama’s decision to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and the $15 billion in stimulus money marked for [...]

By Thomas L. Friedman
What if a laser-powered fusion energy power plant that would have all the reliability of coal, without the carbon dioxide, all the cleanliness of wind and solar, without having to worry about the sun not shining or the wind not blowing, and all the scale of nuclear, without all the waste, was [...]

With consumer confidence plunging, the jobless rate rising and the gross domestic product falling at a rate second only to the decline seen in the 1982 recession, there’s little hope of good economic news anytime soon. But some economists and historians point out that such fallow ground can make a fertile bed for seeds of [...]

In happier times, the Above the Law blog, which bills itself as a “legal tabloid,” riffed about Jerry Springer speaking at Northwestern University Law School’s commencement and Clarence Thomas’s love of Egg McMuffins. These days, it is a hot spot for rumors and real-time reports on big-firm layoffs — and features, such as an out-of-work [...]

One of the marquee items in President Obama’s economic stimulus proposal is a plan to bring broadband Internet access to places that don’t have it. It comes up in almost every speech supporting the package.

In a speech Monday in Elkhart, Ind., for example, Obama called for “building new high-speed broadband lines, reaching schools and small [...]

Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is vowing to spend more money than ever before on new manufacturing technology despite a sharp downturn in its profits.

The company is holding itself up as a model for others in the United States by increasing capital spending during a deep economic slump. Paul S. Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, [...]