When gasoline prices start to rise, the thoughts of economy-minded buyers reliably turn to the Toyota Prius, the mileage champ. Edmunds.com reports consideration of the 50-miles-per-gallon Toyota Prius among its online shoppers is up more than 30% since the beginning of the year -- triple the increase for all hybrids and small cars in general.
Some shoppers, however, may feel diffident about the Prius. More than two million have been sold MORE
Mar 31, 2011 12:23 PM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
A SURPRISE RESIGNATION at Berkshire Hathaway as manager David Sokol leaves the company. While current CEO Warren Buffett has said he has no plans to retire any time soon, many believed that MORE
Mar 31, 2011 11:10 AM ET
Organized gangs are stealing prescription medicine in increasingly audacious heists. That's a problem for Big Pharma and for patients, who can unknowingly buy stolen -- and sometimes dangerous -- medications.
By Katherine Eban, contributor
FORTUNE -- A few years ago a security expert visited Eli Lilly's vast warehouse in Enfield, Conn., one of the pharmaceutical giant's three U.S. distribution sites, where hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of prescription drugs are stored. MORE
Mar 31, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
JUSTICES DIVIDED OVER WAL-MART SEX DISCRIMINATION CASE--not necessarily over whether 1.5 million women should get the backpay from Wal-Mart (WMT) that they're requesting, but whether a lawsuit of that size can even MORE
Mar 30, 2011 11:28 AM ET
Daniel Poneman of the U.S. Energy Department talks about why the president is committed to nuclear power.
FORTUNE -- The Obama administration has remained steadfast in its support of nuclear power, despite the disaster at the Fukushima plant. Fortune's Tory Newmyer interviewed Daniel Poneman, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, to understand why.
What role does the administration see nuclear playing in our energy portfolio after the disaster in Japan?
You have to MORE
Mar 30, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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GENERAL ELECTRIC'S ENERGY UNIT EXPANDS with the coming $3.2 billion purchase of power conversion company Converteam. The deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011, should help GE Energy manufacture more efficient, eco-friendly products. According to GE (GE), the $30 billion energy efficient equipment manufacturing market is growing faster than the global economy. [New York Times]
BP EMPLOYEES MAY FACE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES Federal prosecutors are MORE
Mar 29, 2011 11:17 AM ETForeign policy wunderkind Parag Khanna says revolutions in the Middle East could mean good things for the world – and for business.
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FORTUNE -- There's a lot of reasons to be skittish about conflict in Libya -– high oil prices, another potentially deficit-expanding conflict, and more unrest in a strategically critical region. Indeed, sweeping speeches about freedom and democracy from the floor of the UN MORE
Mar 29, 2011 10:56 AM ET
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The Fortune 500 comes out just once a year, but the companies on it make headlines every day. Here then are today's highlights of news and happenings coming from the biggest names in business.
By Shelley DuBois, reporter
THE FUTURE OF MOBILE PAYMENT is pretty much here, and Google (GOOG) will be at the forefront. The company is partnering with Citigroup (C) and MasterCard, (MA) and building technology into its MORE Mar 28, 2011 9:51 AM ET
Japan's nuclear catastrophe has triggered a wave of debate across nations about the future of nuclear energy, but everyone can agree that safety improvements are needed now.
By Charles Perrow, contributor
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FORTUNE -- We continue to populate our planet with systems that have catastrophic potential despite the known risks. Case in point: Nuclear power plants, which house fearful concentrations of hazardous materials, are often located in densely populated areas, and MORE
Mar 28, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Could it happen here? That's the question on so many American minds after witnessing the horrors in Japan for the past two weeks.
Editor's Note: Every week, Fortune.com is publishing favorite stories from the Fortune magazine archives. In the February 1965 issue, Lawrence Lessing dug deep into research providing clues about the causes of earthquakes in this story, for which he won the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award. It was the MORE
Mar 27, 2011 9:39 AM ET
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