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Inside Business: Gas Prices Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Gas Prices Gas prices are still much higher than they should be. What, OPEC worry? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Information Technology The latest in information technology is -- a little sensitive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Fiscal Crisis Even the strong are having trouble surviving the current fiscal crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgage Mess The government has bailed out two of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and that's good. But many problems remain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: FDA Is the FDA doing its job? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Martha Stewart Will Martha Stewart ever come back from the bad PR surrounding her conviction for insider trading? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: GM Does GM stand a chance? Geoff Colvin offers some insight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Financial Woes Who's really to blame for America's financial crisis? It's not who you'd think. Goeff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Art Art is still selling -- and selling big -- on the international market. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Richard Grasso Richard Grasso is rich rich rich -- and despite a major investigation, the legal system says there's nothing wrong with that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Information Technology Gas prices are still much higher than they should be. What, OPEC worry? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Gas Prices Gas prices are still much higher than they should be. What, OPEC worry? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Gas Prices Gas prices are still much higher than they should be. What, OPEC worry? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Fiscal Crisis The latest in information technology is -- a little sensitive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Information Technology The latest in information technology is -- a little sensitive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Information Technology The latest in information technology is -- a little sensitive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgage Mess Even the strong are having trouble surviving the current fiscal crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Fiscal Crisis Even the strong are having trouble surviving the current fiscal crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Fiscal Crisis Even the strong are having trouble surviving the current fiscal crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Martha Stewart Is the FDA doing its job? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: FDA Is the FDA doing its job? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: FDA Is the FDA doing its job? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: FDA The government has bailed out two of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and that's good. But many problems remain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgage Mess The government has bailed out two of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and that's good. But many problems remain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgage Mess The government has bailed out two of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and that's good. But many problems remain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Art Who's really to blame for America's financial crisis? It's not who you'd think. Goeff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Financial Woes Who's really to blame for America's financial crisis? It's not who you'd think. Goeff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Financial Woes Who's really to blame for America's financial crisis? It's not who you'd think. Goeff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Financial Woes Does GM stand a chance? Geoff Colvin offers some insight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: GM Does GM stand a chance? Geoff Colvin offers some insight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: GM Does GM stand a chance? Geoff Colvin offers some insight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: GM Will Martha Stewart ever come back from the bad PR surrounding her conviction for insider trading? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Martha Stewart Will Martha Stewart ever come back from the bad PR surrounding her conviction for insider trading? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Martha Stewart Will Martha Stewart ever come back from the bad PR surrounding her conviction for insider trading? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Richard Grasso Art is still selling -- and selling big -- on the international market. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Art Art is still selling -- and selling big -- on the international market. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Art Art is still selling -- and selling big -- on the international market. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Richard Grasso Richard Grasso is rich rich rich -- and despite a major investigation, the legal system says there's nothing wrong with that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Richard Grasso Richard Grasso is rich rich rich -- and despite a major investigation, the legal system says there's nothing wrong with that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Waste Management Waste Management is America's leader in -- well, waste management. They're an obvious choice to adopt Earth-friendly initiatives and, Fortune Magazine reports, they're doing just that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Stress Reduction Are you living on the edge at work? Here are some helpful suggestions on how you can reduce stress -- day by day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Yahoo Do you Yahoo? Microsoft would certainly like to, but the market advises they might do well to steer clear. Geoff Covin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Busienss: Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard has a good thing going with its printer and ink business -- but they're betting a good thing can get better. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Chrysler With a change at the top can come big changes at other levels of a corporation. Just ask the people at Chrysler. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Investing If you want to know how to invest, why not ask the best? Geoff Colvin finds out how. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Passing The Torch Will it be like father, like son for Warren Buffett's wealthy youngest child? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Auto Industry It's a time of transition in the auto industry. What should you look out for? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Investment Advice Here now, an investor's cautionary tale. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Tech Job Boom? Not everyone is hurting during these tough economic times. For example, ask the leaders of a big tech firm how they're doing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Political Economics Who we choose as our next president is important -- but will it really have a major impact on the economy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Polluting Costs Companies, if you must pollute, you must pay up as well -- according to plan which is likely soon to see the light of day. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Computing Power You have the power -- the computing power -- to make the world a better place. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Cars And Politics The auto industry is watching this year's presidential election with great interest -- especially the candidates' positions on emissions standards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Google Google may be in the midst of an awkward adolescence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Toyota There's more tough times ahead for auto companies -- even Toyota. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Relief Many experts are saying the worst of our economic woes are over -- but hold the parade. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Summer Job Hunt It's not a good time to look for a summer job. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Tough Times We're living through tough financial times. One solution? Take to the bottles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Health Insurance America has a difficult time getting health insurance for its citizens. Why's that? Well -- maybe the first question to ask is -- who are these uninsured people? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Agriculture It's a great time to be in the agricultural commodities business, right? Well -- maybe not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mark Zuckerberg He's young, and his company's growing, but that doesn't mean Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is going to let others take charge of his company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: American Airlines Look up -- in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an American Airlines plane. And it may be coming down to Earth very soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Safety In Numbers In these tough times, there can sometimes be safety in analyzing numbers. Here are some investments you can count on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: China's Might China's economy is growing so much it's certain to take ours -- and it could happen very soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Crisis Relief The business world is teaming up with a Congressman on a possible balm for the housing crisis. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Investments As the economy struggles, where can you turn to -- investment-wise? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Rate Cuts The Fed is cutting interest rates like crazy. Is it time to stop? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Back To Nature? Looking for a role model for your business? Why not go back to nature? 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Microchip Battles The chips are on the table, as the battle between two major producers of microprocessors heats up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Run Up to Beijing It's China versus the movie stars, in the runup to this year's Beijing Summer Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: General Motors The news isn't getting any better for General Motors. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Music Ailments Now is a tough time to be a music executive. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Bond Betting Now's not the time to bet on bonds. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Carbon Farming It's called carbon farming. The crop is a credit, and the goal is to stop deforestation. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Falling Giants Blockbuster, which is faltering, wants to buy Circuit City, which is also faltering. Where's the logic in that? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Shopping You\'ve heard of shop till you drop -- but how about shop or else the economy will drop? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: 3-D Movies Here's a trend that really pops -- 3-D movies. They're back! And this time, they mean good business. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Inflation Inflation is never good news. With all the bad news going around about the economy, should we worried about that, too? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Economic Motivation How do you sell yourself in an economy like this one? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Paying For College Here's one for the ages, especially relevant today -- how are you going to pay for your child's college education? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: MLB Spring is here, but it's not just the grass that's getting greener. Major League Baseball is, too, in a variety of ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Technological Growth Technology is growing at a blistering clip, and changing the world in all kinds of ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Accident Prone? Development in the Asia means more cars will be on the road, and with more cars there are likely to be more car accidents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: College Grads The job market is bleak for young college grads, right? Well, maybe not. Geoff Colvin has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Credit Crunch Cash We're in the middle of a credit crisis, but some credit card companies are making money hand over fist. How can that be? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Insides Business: Weathering The Storm Times are tough, but the business of doing business stays strong no matter how many giants fall. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Silicon Valley An overall economic slowdown is bad news for companies of all stripes, even those optimistic sorts in Silicon Valley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Facebook Facebook is hoping to get face time with you -- especially if you happen to be a bit older than young, or if you live abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: MBA Woes You're about to finish your MBA program, and you've got a sweet corporate job lined up -- at Bear Stearns. Oops. What now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Anti-Corporate Crusade In the last few months, three major anti-corporate crusaders have fallen on their swords. There's laughter in the boardrooms -- but it may be short-lived. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Yahoo Yahoo is fighting for its independence, after a hostile takeover bid from Microsoft. But is that the best strategy for its stockholders? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Hyrbid Cars The new generation of car batteries for hybrids are both lighter and more efficient. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Arabia's Gem The green city of the future is nearly complete -- and it's in the middle of the Arabian desert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Money Management Bill Miller was something of a hero among money managers -- until, that is, he stopped making quite so much money. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Conference Format The model for business conferences is changing with the times -- sometimes on the spot. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Goldman Sachs Investment bank Goldman Sachs has plenty of money to spare, and they're using some of it on an important issue in the business community -- making sure women have an equal chance to compete worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Honda Honda is not just a car company -- and that may have something to do with its success. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Website Battles Out with the old, in with the -- old? A new website from Fox and NBC is surprising pundits who doubted the behemoths' ability to compete with YouTube-type upstarts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Warren Buffett Warren Buffett -- recently declared the world's wealthiest man -- has some important advice for us mortals. Watch out for overly optimistic experts. They may not be as smart as they'd like you to believe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Proctor and Gamble Proctor and Gamble has demonstrated a desire to become more environmentally-friendly. But like most big companies, there are limits to how green they can be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Ethanol Another boom goes bust! This time it's the industry around ethanol, which not long ago was being touted as the future of American energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Blu-Ray The war of the high definition DVD formats is over -- and Sony's Blu-Ray has come out on top. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Seargent Or Coach? A good boss is like a good coach -- not like a drill sergeant. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Retail Deals? Smart investors may want to start shopping from the retail sector. Geoff Colvin explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Philanthropy Geoff Colvin explains how small loans can have a big impact on philanthropy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Restructuring One restructuring firm is helping companies return to financial stability after the credit crisis. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Goldenwest Goldenwest's loans may not be so golden after all. Geoff Colvin explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Cigarettes On Sale Many small retailers have decided to stop selling cigarettes. However, many big retailers and supermarkets haven't kicked the habit. Geoff Colvin explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Management Tips Geoff Colvin shares a top managment consultant's tips for running a successful business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Starbucks Starbucks has just announced that it will stop charging customers for WiFi service by the end of the year. Geoff Colvin asks whether charging for Internet use will be a thing of the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Stock Market The best time to invest is when the stock market is tanking. Just make sure you follow Geoff Colvins financial advice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Job Searching Blues Finding a job can be more difficult when the economy is down. Geoff Colvin offers some advice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: GM Why isn't GM as popular in the United States as it is overseas? Geoff Colvin explains GM's complicated history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard has a good thing going with its printer and ink business -- but they're betting a good thing can get better. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Yahoo Do you Yahoo? Microsoft would certainly like to, but the market advises they might do well to steer clear. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Chrysler With a change at the top can come big changes at other levels of a corporation. Just ask the people at Chrysler. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Work Stress Are you living on the edge at work? Here are some helpful suggestions on how you can reduce stress -- day by day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Waste Management Waste Management is America's leader in -- well, waste management. They're an obvious choice to adopt Earth-friendly initiatives and, Fortune Magazine reports, they're doing just that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Don't Get Fired! Ordinarily, hard work would help you get ahead. In a time of impending recession, you should work hard just so you don't get fired. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Stimulus Package The government's economic stimulus plan may not be as stimulating as we would hope. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Stock Market The stock market is volatile right now, and unpredictable. But there is a way to bet on that volatility -- and maybe win. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Generation Y The ailing auto industry can't wait for Generation Y -- the so-called echo boomers -- to come of age. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Enterprise Enterprise rent-a-car is picking up some new green-friendly policies for their business. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Municipal Bonds Recession or no, municipal bonds may still be a smart investment. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: General Motors General Motors may not be the goliath it once was, but it's still a force to contend with worldwide. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: iPhone Hackers Heavy is the head that wears the crown -- particularly in the tech sector. Apple's iPhone is doing well, but its success is threatened by hackers. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Air Jordan A new edition of the Air Jordan is being launched soon, and Nike's hoping that new, environmentally-friendly methods of building the shoe will make it more profitable than ever. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Julian Robertson A familiar name is once again being talked about on Wall Street -- and he's betting that the US economy is in big trouble. Gepff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Home Depot Bob Nardelli came under fire as head of Home Depot, but ever since he took over Chrysler, things have been looking up. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: China's Century One major investor says the 21st century will be China's century -- and with good reason. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Productivity Productivity is predicted to be way down in businesses across the country this year. Well, not really. But there is a new online golf game coming out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Career Doldrums Are you bored with your career? You're not alone, and you probably can do something about it. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Car Sales Analysts have labored over why car sales are down in the US. Is it possible that we're just -- bored? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Globalization Globalization is on the agenda in campaign 2008 -- and with good reason. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Organic Food Gary Hirschberg saw the organic food coming from a long way away. He founded Stonyfield Farms yogurts 20 years ago, and despite challenges, it remains the last word in organic yogurt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Online Music Marketing Radiohead made a splash last year by releasing their album through their website, rather than through a label. Now other big acts are considering following suit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Sears Sears used to be a juggernaut of a company, but lately sales have been down. Some blame the new management. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: WiFi Wifi technology has had a widespread effect on the way we use our electronic devices. Now, Eye-fi could do the same. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Energy Bust? Is the alternative energy investment boom set to go the way of the .com bubble of years past? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Recession? Dire predictions of recession abound, but that's not necessarily where the nation is heading. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Taser Player A combination taser and music player? It's not just the stuff of dreams anymore. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Weather You can't buy the weather, but you can buy the Weather Channel. It's on the market, and it's expected to inspire a stormy bidding war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Phone Interviews More and more job interviews are being conducted over the phone. Here are some tips on how to get heard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Auto Industry 2008 is shaping up to be an interesting year in the auto industry, which promises to go global in a brand new way. 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Geoff Colvin reports Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Office Politics In business, you sometimes don't succeed or fail based on hard work or competence - but based on office politics. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgage Crisis The administration's new attempt at fixing the mortgage crisis could have political consequences beyond just making voters less poor. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: General Motors General Motors is considering a major rebranding. It's a drastic measure for the automaker, but these are drastic times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Wifi Wifi works great over short distances, but efforts to improve upon the technology may have hit a snag. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Hedge Funds Hedge fund manager Larry Robbins is very good at making a whole lot of money. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: 'Green' Expenses Purely in money terms, can the US afford to become more environmentally friendly? Analysts say - probably, yes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Sears Sears Company - that old teetering titan - is in trouble again. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Chevy Malibu GM is relying on the new Chevy Malibu to be a hit, and they've spared no expense on trying to make it the best car possible. But its fate my lie in the sticker price. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Google Has google gotten too big for its proverbial britches? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: iPods Has the iPod peaked? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Blood Rubies What price rubies? Just as diamonds have in the past been linked to bloody regimes, rubies - mined primarily in Myanmar - are now under fire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgage Crisis This year's mortgage crisis was devastating to banks and homeowners alike - and unfortunately, the worst may not be over. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Recession The economy is flagging, and there are signs a recession may be inevitable. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Munchie Reversal Wouldn't it be great if there were a drug that gave the reverse munchies? There is one, but it was denied FDA approval - and now the maker is being sued. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Pasta And Fuel? Fuel is more expensive around the world, and Australia's experience a drought - but what's that got to do with the price of pasta in Italy? Apparently, a lot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Lingerie Lingerie is a competitive business, and lately it seems everyone knows what Victoria's Secret is. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Computers And Air How can spending time on the computer help you get more fresh air? It all depends on which computer. 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What are some of the strangest things people have said while trying to get hired? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Traveling Traveling can give you a breather, but is it also making it harder for you to breathe? The environmental consequences of globetrotting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Fuel Economy Fuel economy versus the vroom - are Americans really serious about conserving gasoline? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Electric Cars The newest electric car really hums. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Career Women who have it all - a career AND a family. Do they exist? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: SPAC What's a SPAC? Maybe something that could make you a lot of money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Outsourcing Outsourcing in tech support has become commonplace. Press 1 for English - that's often somebody in India, and press 2 for Spanish - now maybe somebody in Latin America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Ad Sales It's one of the fastest growing job markets in America - online ad sales. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Apple Apple's new iPhone has been described as nifty, hip, cool, neato, but - is there a crisis brewing? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Blackstone Blackstone - the private equity firm - disappointed its last round of investors. But don't give up just - it may be time to give the company another look. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Quitting Millions of people have jobs they hate - but when is it truly quitting time? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Internet Phone It was a revolutionary idea - low-cost internet-based phone service - only it hasn't sparked a revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Trash Do you know how you pay for trash collection? Most of us don't and it has become a huge environmental problem. One company, however, has a solution. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgage Mess Who would have thought the subprime mortgage mess would actually bring Republicans and Democrats together? Geoff Colvin explains. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Economics Things are looking pretty grim for the US economy, right? Some analysts say - not necessarily. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Love Love isn't all you need when it comes to one major growth industry - online dating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Trends There's a trend among captains of industry - look up! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Microsoft More and more, American companies are dealing with foreign regulation. Take, for example, Microsoft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Banks And Mortgages Is it possible that major banks may want to leave the mortgage business? And what does that mean for you? Geoff Colvin has the report. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: China And '08 Is China our friend or foe? That question will play an important role in the upcoming Presidential election. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Chinese Cars One Chinese car company has some big plans for the next few years, but are they going about it the right way? Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Job Trends It's true that many jobs are moving outside the United States, but did you know those same jobs are also moving to the house next door? Geoff Colvin has the report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: N.Y. Yankees Geoff Colvin explains why the New York Yankees are set to become even more valuable to the NBA. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Social Security Two very different Washington politicos have banded together to fix Social Security. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: 'Green' Credit An environmentally friendly...credit card? Sure, as long as you understand what it does and doesn't do. Geoff Colvin explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: iPhone Apple's iPhone may be getting all the attention lately, but the world's largest cell phone developer is preparing to strike back. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Sudan Isn't it illegal for US companies to operate in Sudan? Yes, but there is a loophole and some companies are using it. Geoff Colvin has the report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Sam Wants You "Uncle Sam Wants You!" According to a new study, the Federal Government is about to embark on a hiring spree. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Messaging Instant Messaging is evolving in ways that are changing the whole business of Internet services. Geoff Colvin has the report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Global Biz Every company wants to be more global. But if you want to work internationally, be sure to go about it the right way. Geoff Colvin has the report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Macy's Rumors keep flying that a private equity firm may want to buy Macy's. But would that make sense? Geoff Colvin tells us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Fiber Optics Optical fiber is an incredible technology with one big technical problem. Now, apparently, it has now been solved. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Economy Blues Why are Americans so glum about the economy? Even if statistics show it's been amazingly good for the past 5 years? Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Cars One of America's most exciting new cars is the creation of an 84-year-old industry legend. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Online Trash One man's trash is another man's treasure. It's an old saying the Internet has taken to the next level for the benefit of the environment. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Dell Michael Dell is once again CEO of the company he founded...and he sees a lot that needs fixing. Geoff Colvin has the report. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Gucci Bringing in a frozen foods executive to run Gucci? It sounded like a long shot for sure, yet it seems to be working. Geoff Colvin has more with the perfect union between fashion and business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Nissan Deciding what consumers will want five years into the future may sound impossible, but car companies have to do it. And Nissan has a lot riding with its latest bet. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Campaign '08 In the 2008 Presidential Campaign, which business luminaries are backing which candidates? Geoff Colvin tells us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Mortgages Risky sub-prime mortgages have caused trouble and a prosecutor is looking at the firms that told clients that these were safe investments. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Cocoa Could the Cocoa Leaf actually become the basis of a legitimate business? Bolivia thinks so. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Libel When an unsafe product made in China injures someone in the United States, who's libel? Geoff Colvin has the surprising answer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Tech Leaders In an era of increased global competition, is America losing its edge in the development of new technology? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Green Consulting As large companies increasingly jump on the "green" bandwagon, a consulting firm has jumped into the void to help them do it. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Detroit Three Proposals in Congress to require improved fuel economy standards in cars may be good news for the environment, but will they spell the end of the Detroit Three? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Vegas, Baby? Las Vegas' reign as gambling capitol of the world is over. That title now belongs to...Macao? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: iPhone Mania In all the excitement over the release of Apple's iPhone, some truly revolutionary features of the device have been ignored. Geoff Colvin has more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Office Politics What do you do when a co-worker is badmouthing you at the office? Geoff Colvin has expert tips for handling a thorny workplace problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Car Ads Auto makers are rethinking the way they do advertising, shifting more dollars into online and alternative methods, and moving away from celebrity spokespeople. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are up for sale, and Geoff Colvin thinks they might fetch a pretty price even though they haven't won a world series in 98 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Nature On TV Thanks to Oprah's interest in The Discovery Channel series Planet Earth, nature programming is hot again. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Kraft Foods A single investor with a three percent stake in Kraft Foods may be about to tell management what's what, and Geoff Colvin says he has quite a track record. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Yahoo Wall St. applauded Yahoo's decision to replace its CEO, but Geoff Colvin wonders whether the move was really such a good idea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Opportunities In a booming stock market, sometimes the best opportunities are the ones other investors ignore, like the housing market and energy. Geoff Colvin has tips on some. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Hot Tech IPO It's the hottest tech IPO since Google, and it's coming this summer. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Want $1 Mil? Geoff Colvin has a sure-fire way to make a million bucks, but, of course, there's a catch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Money Tips Expert advice on money management doesn't always come from Wall St. Geoff Colvin has some top picks from a successful Atlanta-based firm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: What Do You Think? Geoff Colvin has tips on how to respond in those tricky situations when your boss asks for your opinion, but you're not sure what you think. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: The Singing Analyst A Wall St. stock analyst has made a name for himself by giving recommendations to clients in song. Geoff Colvin has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Wal-Mart Woes Wal-Mart is embroiled in a lawsuit that keeps getting nastier and more personal. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Endowments Geoff Colvin shares investing tips from the manager of Harvard's $30 million endowment fund. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Summer Brews SABMiller is the world's no. 2 beer company. Geoff Colvin reports on some new strategies the giant brewer hopes will reinvigorate the beer market in the U.S. and beyond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Attention Students! A new company called TutorVista offers online homework help from tutors who work from homes scattered throughout India. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Countrywide Why is Countrywide Financial, one of the country's largest subprime mortgage lenders, doing so well despite the recent lending crisis? Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Remember Tylenol? When seven people died from cyanide-laced Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson weathered the storm. In an age of tainted spinach and deadly dog food, Geoff discusses their successful response to the crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: HIV Positive Partnership helps people with HIV in developing countries by giving them loans as long as they have a co-signer who is virus-free. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Facebook The social networking Web site Facebook has fewer adherents than MySpace, but a new strategy may make it more important than most people realize. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: The Buffets Are Warren Buffet and Jimmy Buffet actually related? Geoff Colvin finally has the answer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Oil Prices If you're looking for a way to capitalize off estimates that oil demand will exceed supply this year, Geoff Colvin reports that offshore drilling companies make for an intriguing investor play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Wal-Mart And Stocks Wal-Mart is offering the services of a discount stock brokerage on its website and plans to begin doing the same in stores. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: India Government corruption is a serious problem in India that threatens to put a damper on the country's economic boom. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Chrysler Deal Cerberus Capitol Management is a Wall Street firm that made the once unthinkable move of buying a Big 3 automaker. Geoff Colvin reports on how they pulled it off. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: No. 1 Carbon Emitter China is set to overtake the United States as the world's biggest source of carbon emissions, and it may happen even sooner than scientists thought. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Tech Guru Some of his ideas might sound crazy, but to many, including Bill Gates, Ray Kurzweil is something of a visionary when it comes to technology. Geoff Colvin has the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: New Banks Although the world's largest banks are growing larger than ever, small new banks seem to be sprouting up all over the place. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Wal-Mart Goes Solar Wal-Mart announced it will install solar roof panels on a number of its stores in California and Hawaii to save money on electricity. Geoff Colvin reports that this is a milestone for solar power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Romance Goes Global Young business professionals are increasingly engaging in super long-distance relationships that can span the globe, and they rely on technology to make their love lives work. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Pickup Trucks American auto-makers make big profits from pick-up truck sales, but recent data suggest even that market has started to slide. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Family Riches America's richest family, the descendants of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, may be on the verge of becoming a major force in philanthropy. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Email With Care An email blunder can cost even high profile executives their jobs, so it's best to exercise caution with your keyboard. Geoff Colvin has tips for avoiding bad email. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Populism Populism is back in style in both the Republican and Democratic parties. Geoff Colvin reports on what implications this might have for the business world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: $100 Laptops The non-profit organization One Laptop Per Child developed a $100 laptop for poor children in developing countries. Geoff Colvin reports that the computers may soone become more widely available. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Lazy Money Charles Schwab has a new, high-yield checking account that it hopes will lure consumers away from the competition, but Geoff Colvin reports that most people are lazy when it comes to money. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Investing For Good The French company Danone has a novel idea for investors: a mutual fund that promotes social welfare. What's the catch? Expect low returns on your investment. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Resume Gaffes If you've ever worried about making a mistake on your resume, this might put your mind at ease. Geoff Colvin reports on a new survey of hiring managers that reveals some serious resume blunders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: GM Is Sliding Now that Toyota has officially surpassed General Motors in sales, it's time for the U.S. automaker to make some serious changes. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Fortune 500 What's good for Fortune 500 companies may not be good for their employees. Geoff Colvin reports that while business on the Fortune 500 list made more money than ever last year, their workers didn't. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Rainforest Dollars The Rainforest Alliance, one of the world's largest sustainability certifiers, is doing big business thanks in part to an early decision not to advocate boycotts. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Is Exxon Crazy? Exxon Mobile is one of the only energy companies not investing in alternative energy technologies. Geoff Colvin examines why the energy giant is bucking an international trend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Buffet And Sudan Why is Warren Buffet involved in the debate about genocide in Darfur? Geoff Colvin explains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Oil Industry CanocoPhillips is the first U.S.-based oil company to support mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Geoff Colvin reports that the move shows a major shift in the climate change debate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Photobucket Never heard of Photobucket.com? Geoff Colvin says it"s one of the fastest growing Internet sites, but most adults aren't aware of it yet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Internet TV The founders of Skype and Kazaa have a new venture: Joost. They hope the free online television service will match their earlier successes, but Geoff Colvin reports that they face real competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Effective Managing A recent study shows one of the easiest things managers can do to motivate their employees is the very same thing that most managers neglect: showing appreciation. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Car Buyers All concerns about the environment seem to go out the window when Americans enter a car dealership. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Energy Use Computers are among the biggest energy users most businesses have. Geoff Colvin reports that Sun Microsystems is trying to do change that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Google's 'Ecosystem' Few companies can do everything well, so they encourage others to grow up around them and fill in the gaps. Geoff Colvin reports that Google is building precisely this type of ecosystem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Pension Funds Should pension funds invest in companies doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism? Geoff Colvin says the answer is more complicated than it sounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Nonprofits Have you thought about working full-time for a non-profit organization? Maybe you should. Geoff Colvin reports that the not-for-profit job market is growing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: MySpace MySpace is finally addressing the problem of sexual predators on the Internet, but the question is whether they are doing enough. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Auto News What's new in the automobile industry? Geoff Colvin says Daimler Chrysler may surprise you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Loan Fraud One small firm is actually making money on the recent mortgage meltdown. Geoff Colvin reports that Clayton Holdings, which ferrets out fraud in loan sales, is in the money lately. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Cogent Cogent Communications sells Internet bandwidths at cut-rate prices. This makes the company popular with customers, but Geoff Colvin reports that it has yet to make any profits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: China China may not be as formidable a competitor as it seems. Geoff Colvin analyzes several recent deals that made headlines and concludes they are not as scary as they sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business: Foreign Workers The debate over whether to let well-educated foreign workers into the United States is heating up. Geoff Colvin discusses the pros and cons of handing out more visas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Cell Spam Text message span on cellular phones is on the rise in the U.S. even though it's illegal. Geoff Colvin reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Work Trouble Everyone makes mistakes at work, but how bad is it, and what will it take to restore your reputation? Geoff Colvin has expert tips for recovering from on the job blunders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Investing Tip Many investors no longer think dividends are a good predictor of stock performance, but as Geoff Colvin reports, it might be wise to consider those dividends after all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Business: Resume Length Conventional wisdom has it that a resume should always fit on one page. Geoff Colvin explains why this may not be accurate. 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