Business news for Mon, 17 Dec 2007 & with word popular. 6 news.

Stung by the toll coffee-shop purchases can take on wallets, peeved by the taste of office-issue drip coffee and irked by how much time "Starbucks runs" consume, executives are treating themselves, and employees, to high-end espresso machines. Most popular are "pod" systems such as Nespresso or ...

[Telecom] The company stepped into an aggressive advertising campaign Sunday, running full-page ads in 20 daily newspapers around the country to let consumers know they can get NFL Network as part of the carrier's most popular programming packages on U-verse or Homezone.

Energy pleas ignore an important bit of economics ENERGY efficiency is probably the most popular environmental panacea. While politicians discuss complicated global climate-change deals, economists tinker with intricate emissions-trading schemes and engineers design a new generation of nuclear-power plants, many greens advocate simpler steps: buying more efficient cars, replacing wasteful incandescent bulbs with efficient fluorescent ones and installing proper insulation. The International Energy Agency reckons that more efficient manufacturing, cosier houses and frugal transport could reduce energy demand worldwide by a third by 2050. With that in mind, governments are prodding businesses to make their products more efficient. A voluntary agreement between the European Union and big carmakers has helped boost fuel economy 12% above its 1995 level, although the target of 25% by 2009 will not be met. ...

A popular 21st-century economic maxim holds that the world is flat — or at least flattening. Yet as countries, companies and individuals...

Kristie Lauborough spent the better part of this year hunting the elusive Nintendo Wii. After months of frustration, she finally got her hands on a video game console in autumn - the Xbox 360. Lauborough's unsuccessful quest for the popular Wii has been...

Virtual Radiologic Corp. has made a booming business of sending medical images to radiologists, which is an increasingly popular way to overcome the growing shortage of doctors who are available to read scans around the clock.