2007 April: Business
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Ari Sharp, Carbon rules follow different paths, The Age, 2007 April 30 (it may usually be associated with forests, but the carbon offset industry could become more like the law of the jungle)
Andrew Revkin, Carbon-neutral is hip, but is it green?, IHT, 2007 April 28 (to many environmentalists, the carbon-neutral campaign is a sign of the times b easy on the sacrifice and big on the consumerism)
Peter Walker, China speeds towards 'biggest greenhouse gas producer' title, Guardian, 2007 April 24 (China could overtake the US as the globe's biggest producer of greenhouse gases later this year)
John Vidal, Norway aims for zero-carbon status with all emissions offset by 2050, Guardian, 2007 April 21 (PM's plan relies heavily on buying greenhouse credits; oil exports undermine plan, says Greenpeace)
David Hencke, Whitehall criticised over sustainability, Guardian, 2007 April 20 (target for 'carbon neutral' Whitehall by 2012 will be impossible to achieve unless spending is cut on refurbishing government offices, the National Audit Office warns)
Japan's economy: Over to you, big spender, Economist, 2007 April 21 (reasons to expect a consumption boom)
Matthew Benjamin and Nipa Piboontanasawat, China's mall glut reflects an unbalanced economy, IHT, 2007 April 17 (South China Mall stands as a symbol of China's failure to stimulate more spending by its 1.3 billion people and to curb runaway investment in real estate projects)
Neil Boorman, Expensive tastes, Guardian, 2007 April 16 (our appetite for luxury goods is driven by two myths: that we will get more and feel better)
Allen Salkin, A golden age for gadgets, IHT, 2007 April 15 (many factors have come together to make this a golden age for gadgets)
David Ward, Queen's composer berates 'philistine' Blair, Guardian, 2007 April 11 (ministers accused of cultural ignorance with 'I consume therefore I am' motto for government)
Bloomberg, Top European court hands drug makers victory over product resellers, IHT, 2007 April 26 (drug makers can sanction traders who resell trademarked products in another European Union country without giving advance notice, the EU's top court ruled Thursday in a case that may end a debate stretching over decades)
Tighter rules on food ads urged, BBC, 2007 April 28 (teaching and health groups say a new code on printed food adverts for children does not go far enough)
Wendy M Grossman, Freedom of rights management, Guardian, 2007 April 26 (musicians have been badgering Apple to sell their music without copy protection for years, so why is it changing its tune now?)
Dan Glaister, Yahoo plans to drown fans' fuzzy song lines with legal lyrics site, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (licensed lyrics may yield $100m annual revenue)
David Gow, Mandelson takes China to task over copyright, Guardian, 2007 April 19 (EU trade commissioner warns Europe could back the US action against Beijing for piracy of intellectual property rights or initiate cases of its own)
'Fatal' blow to web broadcasters, BBC, 2007 April 17 (US webcasters will face sharp rises in royalty fees that could be "fatal" to the nascent industry, a coalition of web broadcasters has claimed)
James Robinson, BBC to put one million hours of its past online, Observer, 2007 April 15 (corporation wants its entire archive to be available for free)
AP, Chinese authorities destroy 42 million pirated items, IHT, 2007 April 15 (Chinese authorities destroyed 42 million pieces of pirated digital videodiscs, compact discs, computer software and illegal publications in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property)
Jack Schofield, Finding the music format of the future, Guardian, 2007 April 12 (quality, copy protection and billion-dollar lawsuits are all factors when choosing encoding systems)
Danny Bradbury, Can stuck torrents beat pirates?, Guardian, 2007 April 12 (online filesharing of movies and music has the Hollywood hotshots hopping mad, but they are fighting back with the help of anti-piracy firms)
Ashley Seager, US starts copyright action against China, Guardian, 2007 April 11 (WTO to judge on fake goods and import curbs; Beijing insists it protects intellectual property)
China slams US piracy complaint, BBC, 207 April 10 (China criticises US plans to file a complaint with the WTO over copyright piracy and counterfeiting of US goods)
Economics prizes: Back to basics, Economist, 2007 April 28 (Harvard's Susan Athey wins the John Bates Clark Medal)
Economics focus: Another day, another $1.08, Economist, 2007 April 28 (even those in absolute poverty have choices)
Peter Hannam, Fund finds new markets in green risks, The Age, 2007 April 30 (investing in the long-term potential of alternative energy sources such as solar and geothermal power is rapidly gaining popularity if capital raisings are any guide)
Terry Slavin, Environment: A serious blow, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (plans for England's first truly community-owned wind farm are under threat as commercial developers muscle in on renewables)
Ian Sample, Robins forced to sing at night to beat traffic noise, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (urban birds have taken to singing at night because it is too noisy to be heard during the daytime)
Peter Preston, Retreat will beat the litter Lites, Observer, 2007 April 22 (as London sinks now beneath the weight of some 1.5 million giveaways councils demand publishers help with recycling tonnes of the instantly discarded)
John Vidal, This sceptred isle, set in a sea of rubbish, Guardian, 2007 April 20 (plastic debris is leaving beaches devastated; survey found 373,048 items of litter in one day)
Juliette Jowit, 'Eco-debt' Britain will have consumed this year's share of resources by tonight, Observer, 2007 April 15 (at about bedtime today, Britain will go into ecological debt - the moment when the country begins living beyond its natural resources and eating into nature's 'capital')
Conservation: Raining bats and logs, Economist, 2007 April 14 (how to replant a rainforest cheaply)
Annie Kelly, Environment: Net losses, Guardian, 2007 April 11 (while Pakistan encourages foreign trawlers to fish in its seas, its traditional fishing communities are facing ruin; now there are warnings that other countries are being pressured to follow its lead)
Tom Rowland, The dial-through fraudsters using VoIP to outwit detectives, Guardian, 2007 April 26 (telephone switchboard hacking is not new, but criminals are now using the latest technology to cover their trails)
Duncan Campbell, Operation Ore flawed by fraud, Guardian, 2007 April 19 (the high-profile crackdown on internet child porn has claimed lives and destroyed reputations; but fresh evidence says the police got it wrong)
Mark Tran, Barclays steps up online protection, Guardian, 2007 April 18 (the bank today announced an anti-fraud initiative for online customers: half a million customers will be sent free 'Pinsentry' card readers by the end of the year)
Rupert Jones, Report pinpoints identity fraud streets, Guardian, 2007 April 12 (Victoria Street in central London has been named Britain's number one identity fraud hotspot)
Ari Sharp, Poverty poses corporate threat, The Age, 2007 April 30 (poverty in the Asia-Pacific region is both a threat and an opportunity for Australian businesses, according to a report being released today that was commissioned by some of the nation's leading companies)
Ben Goldacre, Taking on the drug companies, Guardian, 2007 April 28 (in the west we breathlessly report on new breakthroughs in science, but it's easy to forget that ideas are bought, rented and sold, as surely as deckchairs)
Ariana Eunjung Cha, China's food bowl becomes poisoned chalice, The Age, 2007 April 28 (consumers learn about China's safety crisis in which severe malnutrition from fake milk powder killed 13 babies)
Chantal Rumble, Poor nations get taste of Australian fair go, The Age, 2007 April 28 (fair-trade goods are slowly gaining a foothold on our shopping lists)
Daniel Altman, Managing globalization: Has it hurt U.S. workers?, IHT, 2007 April 17 (even though there are plenty of stories of layoffs and heartache, the big picture is not quite so gloomy; yet)
Richard Adams, World Bank 'in crisis' over Wolfowitz, Guardian, 2007 April 16 (World Bank's president defiant despite increasing calls for him to go over girfriend's pay scandal)
Bobbie Johnson, Broadband has to get broader, Guardian, 2007 April 16 (Britain must develop super-speed internet connections if it is to compete globally)
Sebastian Junger, Magazine: Crude awakening, part one, Observer, 2007 April 15 (for decades, the oil-rich delta of the Niger river has been plundered by western companies and rampant political corruption; but now a small group of ruthless Ijaw tribesmen are threatening to sabotage production unless their demands for compensation are met)
Larry Elliott, Global growth can be sustained, Guardian, 2007 April 12 (the International Monetary Fund warns that protectionism and ageing populations pose the biggest threat to the golden era of global economic growth)
Simon Caulkin, Labour's decade, the best and worst of times, Observer, 2007 April 29 (since 1997 manufacturing has lost a million jobs - a symbolic demise if ever there was one)
Christian Catalano, Medicos on drugs industry payroll, The Age, 2007 April 30 (one in four doctors has admitted to doing paid work for a drug company, throwing the spotlight again on the pharmaceutical industry's influence over prescribing habits)
John Bailey, Shrek's back but that doesn't mean we can ogre-eat, say experts, The Age, 2007 April 29 (nutritionists are seeing red over favourite characters promoting fast food)
Tighter rules on food ads urged, BBC, 2007 April 28 (teaching and health groups say a new code on printed food adverts for children does not go far enough)
Sensory branding: Sound effects, Economist, 2007 April 28 (companies tune in to the potential of sound)
Katie Allen, Heathrow Terminal 5 to get record number of digital ad screens, Guardian, 2007 April 27 (advertising group JCDecaux unveils its £25m plans for massive poster sites and digital screens at Terminal 5)
Simon Jenkins, There is no Blairism. An 'ism' needs a coherent set of ideas, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (this last decade has seen a new style, a new PR technique, but not a new ideology; Thatcherism remains the guiding light)
Commercialising space: Ready for take off?, Economist, 2007 April 21 (dotcom start-ups defied gravity; now space start-ups hope to do so for real)
John Harris, A summer of greenwash, Guardian, 2007 April 21 (Al Gore's environmental activism is designed never to threaten the supremacy of the market)
Microsoft aims to double PC base, BBC, 2007 April 19 (Microsoft software will sell for just $3 in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users)
Neal Lawson, A decade of Blair has left the Labour party on its knees, Guardian, 2007 April 19 (servility to the market has alienated voters and eroded the traditional base; the last thing we need is more of the same)
Andrew Clark, Yahoo! profits fall as hopes fade for new advertising system, Guardian, 2007 April 18 (the shares fell after it disclosed an 11% drop in profits, confounding hopes of a quick payback from a new advertising system)
Paul Kerin, Free-market whinge lacking the facts, The Age, 2007 April 12
Carol Nader, Drug company's treat for doctors, The Age, 2007 April 12 (about 100 doctors will be treated to fine dining at Silks Restaurant in Crown Towers next week, courtesy of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline)
Gary Eason, Call for ban on drink sponsorship, BBC, 2007 April 10 (a teachers' leader asks drinks companies to end sponsorship of sporting events, before the 2012 London Olympics)
Peter Preston, That digital pot of gold is losing its shine, Observer, 2007 April 29 (the choice is always either/or: get aboard the digital bandwagon or perish)
Deborah Gough, Media sex imagery 'harming children', The Age, 2007 April 29 (two in every five children treated for problem sexual behaviour have no history of sexual abuse and experts believe they know why)
David Adam, Move to block emissions 'swindle' DVD, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (climate scientists say film misleads public; wag TV producers reject 'contemptible gag attempt')
Victoria Shannon, The End-User: In media, we distrust, IHT, 2007 April 25 (asked to rank their level of trust in a dozen industries ranging from insurance to health care, respondents around the world invariably put media and entertainment dead last)
Bob Tedeschi, Online publishers expand green content, IHT, 2007 April 23 (publishers like The Washington Post, National Geographic and others are adding to their offerings of "green" content, hoping to attract readership and advertising revenues from manufacturers and retailers that are suddenly walking the earth-friendly path)
Mary Riddell, The true nature of modern loss, Observer, 2007 April 22 (when a mass killer seems more newsworthy than his victims, we should heed a film like Reign Over Me)
Marina Hyde, Quite how did this advance human understanding?, Guardian, 2007 April 21 (the airing of Cho Seung-hui's murderous madness serves no moral purpose, regardless of the media's justifications)
Owen Gibson, BBC tests demand for universal access to archives, Guardian, 2007 April 19 (the BBC has moved a step closer to giving viewers access to every programme it has ever made)
Owen Gibson, Media partners take further step into virtual world, Guardian, 2007 April 17 (partnership between production company and US video gaming giant brings Truman Show-style reality a step closer)
Sally Young, PM's tactics muzzle media, The Age, 2007 April 15 (in the past decade, John Howard has radically changed the way politics is reported)
Racial politics: A double standard?, Economist, 2007 April 14 (a shock jock talks; three innocent jocks walk)
Andrew Clark, On America: The power of advertising, Guardian, 2007 April 13 (how the prospect of vanishing ad revenue forced CBS to take a stand against racism, and why it's time to sell your shares when a CEO buys a lavish house)
Emily Dunn, CD sales rise despite downloads, The Age, 2007 April 13 (figures released by the Australian Recording Industry Association yesterday show an increase of almost 8 per cent in the volume of wholesale physical music products, such as CDs, in 2006 compared with 2005, despite a decrease of more than 5 per cent in overall revenue)
David Holmes, Consumers are big losers in Coonan's media shake-up, The Age, 2007 April 13 (citizen journalism and posting videos on YouTube are among the new media options Communications Minister Helen Coonan has held up to justify the further concentration of media ownership in Australia)
John Tagliabue, The Bangalores of Europe, IHT, 2007 April 18 (Western Europe is turning more frequently these days to its own backyard, transforming a few urban centers of the former Communist bloc into the Bangalores of Europe)
More outsourcing boosts Infosys, BBC, 2007 April 13 (the continuing global outsourcing boom helps India's Infosys report a 70% leap in quarterly profits)
Wealth of UK richest 'rises 20%', BBC, 2007 April 28 (the fortunes of Britain's wealthiest 1,000 people rises by 20%, the Sunday Times Rich List 2007 reveals)
Nick Mathiason, Holy alliance embarks on tax crusade, Observer, 2007 April 29 (church groups and bishops demand Gordon Brown closes legal loopholes used by the super-rich to avoid tax; Treasury refuses to answer FOI questions)
Andrew Clark, US executive pay bill passes first hurdle, Guardian, 2007 April 21 (attempt to curb huge boardroom handouts; average remuneration at top firms hits $10.1m)
Heather Connon, Revealed: the directors' real cut, Observer, 2007 April 15 (an exclusive Observer study exposes the inflation-busting wage increases handed to bosses of Britain's top 10 firms, who took home an average of almost £6m each)
Property woe for public workers, BBC, 2007 April 12 (workers such as teachers, nurses and firefighters cannot afford to buy property in most UK towns)
Andrew Clark, On America: The power of advertising, Guardian, 2007 April 13 (how the prospect of vanishing ad revenue forced CBS to take a stand against racism, and why it's time to sell your shares when a CEO buys a lavish house)
BP boss facing pay package revolt, BBC, 2007 April 12 (a revolt over the pay package of outgoing BP chairman Lord Browne is expected at the company's AGM)
Andrew Clark, Farmworkers win case against McDonalds, Guardian, 2007 April 11 (fast-food chain agrees to pay an extra cent for every pound it buys of Florida tomatoes after lobbying by campaigners highlighting the poverty endured by the sunshine state's predominantly Latino farmworkers)
Suzanne Goldenberg, Wolfowitz email backfires, Guardian, 2007 April 11 (angry employees outraged by World Bank president's pay rises and promotion given to his partner)
Paul Austin, State to buy back country rail freight network for $134m, The Age, 2007 April 15 (major privatisation project of Kennett government reversed, with Bracks Government spending more than $130 million to buy back state's regional rail freight network)
Terry Slavin, Environment: A serious blow, Guardian, 2007 April 25 (plans for England's first truly community-owned wind farm are under threat as commercial developers muscle in on renewables)
Economics focus: Womenomics revisited, Economist, 2007 April 21 (if more women were in paid work, the world could be much richer)
Leon Gettler, What goes around comes around, The Age, 2007 April 21 (what does corporate social responsibility mean and who benefits?; should companies get behind the community or do their duties end with shareholders? more)