Laura Vanderkam

LONDON/DHAKA (Reuters) - Tesco, the world's No. 3 retailer, has stopped sourcing clothes from a factory in Bangladesh after discovering serious problems with the safety of the site, the company said on Saturday. The move follows a survey the British-based supermarket chain conducted in the wake of the collapse of the Rana …

(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Saturday that its board has appointed James Cash Jr. as lead independent director. Cash, who joined Wal-Mart's board in 2006, replaces James Breyer, who served on the board for more than a decade, but was prevented from running again this year under the company's rules of corporate …

(Reuters) - Google Inc has launched a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable Internet access to the world's most remote regions, the company said late Friday. The pilot program, Project Loon, took off this month from New Zealand's South Island, using solar-powered, …

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday called on the European Central Bank to create a cheap funding scheme for small businesses, mirroring those used by authorities outside the euro zone to try and get credit flowing via banks. Rajoy, who has previously urged the ECB to change its collateral …

By Martin Dokoupil and Stanley Carvalho ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Egypt's government is in the late stages of verifying its economic reform programme with the International Monetary Fund before obtaining a $4.8 billion IMF loan, its central bank governor said on Saturday. The loan, needed to help stabilise Egypt's balance of …

By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Top producer Ivory Coast will offer a temporary refund on mid-crop cocoa in a bid to stimulate purchasing that has been hampered by small bean size, the country's marketing board, the CCC, announced in a statement posted on its website. Ivory Coast forward sold the bulk of the anticipated …

Web companies begin releasing surveillance information after U.S. deal SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory for the companies as they struggle with the fallout …

(Reuters) - Aetna Inc said on Saturday it has notified California's insurance regulator that it plans to stop selling health policies to individual consumers in the state at the end of 2013. The company will continue to offer health insurance to employers and Medicare beneficiaries in California, as well as dental and life-insurance …

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Workers at Libya's Abu Attifel oilfield have shut down production in protest over salaries, two industry sources said on Saturday. The field is operated by Mellitah, a joint venture between Libya's state energy firm, the National Oil Corporation, and Italy's Eni. "The workers began shutting down production …

Last December, Nike announced a visionary new program called the Nike Accelerator. The program gave 10 tech startups three months to breathe new life into the Nike+ and NikeFuel product lines. On June 10, all their hard work was put on display at the Nike WHQ Demo Day, where three companies offered particularly compelling …

With Father’s Day round the corner, many brands have started banking on it since the beginning of this week on social media. Fathers (read ‘Our ATMs’) can be manipulated to buy just about anything for us, and that coupled with the ‘parenthood’ fact, makes the day a favourite for social media marketers. If the offline.. …

Have you ever wondered whether Google is a computer security threat? After all, they do collect an incredible amount of data about you. Instead of telling you whether or not Google is a computer security threat, let’s review all the ways they monitor you on the Web so you can decide for yourself whether or...

In this big, big world, there are goofy dads, military dads, sporty dads, and the list goes on and on until you hit the nerdy dads. What makes a nerdy dad nerdy? It could be his glasses or it could be his incredible math skills. It could be how he knows so much about war...