Amid hard times, oil companies are starting to improve upon their inefficiencies and hopefully the upgrades may prove to be a boost to their shares, along with related exchange traded funds (ETFs). Many oil companies are reducing budgets, closing wells and throwing out long-term contracts, report......

Filed under: Airlines, News For Southwest Airlines, the numbers are down all over the place. The low-cost carrier flew 5.1 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in February 2009 - a 6 percent drop from the 5.4 million in February 2008. Available seat miles were down 6.5 percent to 7.4 billion. This...

Defending the public realm David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, puts it in a nutshell: "Across the country I am hearing more and more businesses left with no choice but to freeze and cut pay. It is unacceptable that the public sector should not share any of this pain. T...

Filed under: North America, United States, Airlines, News, Airline Reviews Okay, the competition couldn't have been all that stiff. Continental Airlines was rated the top airline in Fortune magazine's annual list of most admired companies. Its score of 7.71 was not good enough to push the company in...

The government, you will be heartened to learn, has something else on its mind aside from prominently displaying its mean streak toward the disabled and single mothers. The cabinet has been sick with worry about your welfare in this recession. For this reason, the nationalised bank Northern Rock, ha...

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL) Wondering which sector is performing the best during the current economic crunch? The kind folks at MarketWatch provided the answer: technology. Nick Godt notes that the sector has gained strength from "investors playing an uncertain environment as both a defensive and ...

Anthony Doesburg: Third mobile network coming - eventually: "It's hard not to be sceptical that the country's long-promised third mobile phone network will ever arrive. We've been hearing about it since 2001, yet to date we're still stuck with a choice between the Telecom and Vodafone networks. The....

Every now and then we are starkly reminded how babies skulls crashed, women and girl children raped and taken as wives of war-lords or forced into slavery and other sexual violence. UNICEF is still at the forefront, but it hard to imagine that in spite of many decades of the agency...

Beth Kanter has written a really thorough piece about Twestival as an online and social fundraising model. I would heartily recommend you read her post based around a conversation with the woman behind Twestival: Amanda Rose. Beth has this summary of lessons from Amanda: 1) Don’t Spearhead A W...

Well, it’s certainly a hot topic with some, err, interesting posts going up right now. One of my favorites is this Mark Drapeau “goverati” post, which encapsulates the phenomena of the social media public sector swooning that’s going on currently. It seems like a little conte...