...shopping season heats up, demand for some e-readers is fast outstripping availability...Yesterday, Barnes & Noble said the Nook, the $260 e-reader it released last month, was out of...Barnes & Noble and Sony brought their newest e-readers to market prematurely. "Supply is...

●Earth Capital Partners is launching the ECP Renewable Energy Fund to invest in solar, biogas and biomass projects,

...market economy. When the competition fails then what do we do? We regulate or we litigate."The weekend's vote was a victory for Harry Reid, Senate leader, but he acknowledged that it was simply an opening skirmish in a battle that is now set to break into full...

...either hold on to the capital past the first repayment date, or to skip paying interest coupons on the notes. However, the banking crisis...European politicians have forced a number of state-rescued banks to skip coupons and to hold off redeeming the notes where possible. Banking...

...familiar with the messages saying, "[Hasan] clearly became more radicalised . . . It became very clear toward the end of those e-mails he was interested in taking action." The information went no further. The army, it seems, was never made aware. If all this...

...od's life: "Perhaps, sir, you will some day come back with books." Back in Kathmandu, the Microsoft executive furiously dispatched e-mails to his friends, urging them to send him picture books. The following year, he returned to Nepal with eight donkeys bearing...

...subsidiaries. No wonder the European Commission has apparently already signalled its alarm. For rapacious US plaintiffs' attorneys, a change would be just another reason to try their luck. Post a comment below or e-mail the Lex team confidentially

...pale in comparison with Berkshire Hathaway's historical returns, but perhaps now is no time for investors to be greedy. If the Oracle of Omaha is aiming low, the pickings must be slim indeed.Post a comment below or e-mail the Lex team confidentially

...stopping to digest anything at all. She tells me that, in her company, the written word has lost almost all its power. No one reads e-mails any more - with the exception of those from the boss. Messages from anyone else are either deleted unread or given a cursory...

...projected to be close to zero in 2009". The IMF may be right about prices but policymakers would be wrong to leave the monetary taps on full bore based on the flaky concept of output gaps alone.Post a comment below or e-mail the Lex team confidentially