Technology/Science
U.N. Report Outlines Climate Change Solutions
Governments may have to extract vast amounts of greenhouse gases from the air by 2100 to achieve a target for limiting global warming, backed by trillion-dollar shifts towards clean energy, a draft ...
Google’s Buy of Nest Labs Seen Improving Smart-Home Gizmo Connections
Google Inc. is jumping into digital home automation with its acquisition of Nest Labs Inc., shining a spotlight on an unproven market that has so far been filled with expensive devices that can't ...
Nasdaq Says Talks Over Market Glitches Too Slow: Reuters
Nasdaq OMX Group is prepared to walk away from running the data processor that was at the center of a three-hour trading halt in August, in a sign of its frustration with the pace of talks over ...
Verisk to Buy EagleView Technology Image Library for $650 Million
Verisk Analytics Inc., the supplier of data to insurers and banks, agreed to buy EagleView Technology Corp. for $650 million in cash, adding an image library that encompasses about 90 percent of U.S. ...
Shedding Light on ‘Dark Side’ of Internet of Things
The futuristic world of self-driving cars, eyeglasses that e-mail and trash cans that call for pickup is running into the old-fashioned pace of doing business in Washington. Companies from Google ...
Payment Partners Could Face Lawsuits, Fines in Target Data Breach
Companies that help Target Corp process payments could face millions of dollars in fines and costs resulting from the unprecedented data breach that struck the retailer over the holiday shopping ...
SNL Acquires Analytics Firm iPartners
SNL Insurance, a division of SNL, has acquired iPartners LLC, which offers analytics and reporting software and services that help insurers collect and analyze internal business data. Terms were not ...
Scientists Say Americans Becoming Weather Wimps; Statistics Prove It
We've become weather wimps. As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation last week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists ...