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As a fully grown automaker, Acura has a few SUVs and crossovers on the market already filling needs of various segments and buyers. So, with this complete portfolio, what is an automaker to do? How about announce another: The Acura ZDX. One school of thought says that as a segment matures, it has the opportunity to become more specific. Another says that good design will carry the segment. And then there is the spaghetti theory: Throw enough stuff at the wall, and eventually something will stick. Further defining a developing niche Acura has bypassed all three and helped to develop a new segment: The four-door coupe crossover. A mouthful for certain, but could it be just what the brand needs or is it too little, too late? One of the sleek new-generation of fastback-designed CUVs, the ZDX joins the BMW X6 as two of a kind in a... [read full story]
PXN is an interesting ETF because it mixes small, pure-play nanotech companies with mammoth established firms that devote a small portion of resources to nanotech. The fund has an average market capitalization of $24 billion,...
Filed under: Hardware , Odds and ends , iMac , Mac mini , MacBook Air The sust-it website, which provides rankings of energy usage and annual energy cost for thousands of appliances, home entertainment devices, and computers,...
Netbooks, low-cost portable computers optimized for web usage, are continuing to sell at a torrid pace, with Acer expecting 50 percent growth in the global netbook market in 2010, to 42 million units. In the meantime, standard...
Moody's Investors Service on Friday said it will make no changes for now to the ratings or outlooks of banks in the United Arab Emirates with exposure to the two Dubai entities whose debt problems have roiled global markets.
