Latest from Jeff Horwich

• Jul 23, 2012

  Anger towards government follows in wake of Beijing flood

  In Beijing, six months-worth of rain fell over the weekend. The storm has reportedly killed 37 people; almost 60,000 are out of their homes. Anger is reportedly turning from Mother Nature to the government.

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• Jul 23, 2012

  Neil Barofsky on the failures of TARP

  The Troubled Assets Relief Program — TARP — was the formal name for what we often just call "the bailout." In 2008 Congress allocated $700 billion to stabilize the U.S. financial industry. Congress and President Bush assigned one man to build a team, and police all that spending.

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• Jul 20, 2012

  Heineken bids on Southeast Asian brewer

  Heineken has offered $6 billion to buy Asia Pacific Breweries, which makes Tiger beer. Their giant bid was meant to elbow out a play by a billionaire from Thailand and get a stronger hold on the Southeast Asian market.

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• Jul 20, 2012

  U.S. drought could have global impact on food prices

  As one of the world's biggest agricultural exporter, the drought in the U.S. could impact food prices worldwide. In recent years, high food prices have initiated destabilization of the Middle East as well as Haiti.

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• Jul 20, 2012

  The latest (old) scent for sale

  You've of course heard of Old Spice. Well, here comes "Old Book."

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• Jul 20, 2012

  Indian factory experiences dangerous worker riots

  Employee riots at India's largest car-maker — Maruti — have burned down part of the factory, shut down the plant and killed a human resources manager.

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• Jul 19, 2012

  When big celebrities leave Twitter

  So there seems to be a trend developing over in the social media world: From Alec Baldwin to John Mayer, more and more big name celebrities are dropping out of the Twitter-verse.

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• Jul 19, 2012

  Cable shows clean up Emmy nominations

  Emmy nominations are out this morning and they're full of shows from cable — AMC's Mad Men got the most. Have the broadcast networks been replaced by cable and how do online only shows fit in?

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• Jul 19, 2012

  Nokia hangs on, but announces $1.5 billion loss

  Until this year, Nokia was the world's biggest maker of cell phones. Today the company announced a $1.5 billion quarterly loss and slashed the price of its new headline handset, the Lumia 900.

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• Jul 18, 2012

  Sheila Bair on the state of Dodd-Frank and financial reform

  Two years ago this Saturday, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Many say the bailout pulled the economy back from the brink. But the ad-hoc nature of the bailout made clear we needed better ways of responding to — and ideally preventing — financial crises.

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