After eight years of intense legal conflict, a judge has finally thrown out the lawsuit against Oracle CEO Larry Ellison of insider trading and deceiving investors. According to the judge, Susan Illston, lawyers failed to provide enough conclusive evidence that any of this ever went on, leaving the judge no choice but to dismiss the charges.
The lawsuit arose when Oracle missed an earnings report back in 2001 and blamed it on an economic slump. Investors quickly rose to blame the nonexistent earnings forecast on problems with software, bad accounting, and poor judgment, things that the Oracle leadership were aware of …read more

Last week at the annual Walmart shareholders meeting, the focus was on sustainabilty. Last week Rand Waddoups, Senior Director of Business Strategy and Sustainability for Wal-Mart talked to Leslie Guevarra at at Greener Design about the goals that drive Wal-Mart’s journey in sustainability.
You can read the full article here. Following is a key point summary.
Background on Walmart Sustainability
In 2005 Walmart set these goals:

100 percent renewables
zero waste and to
products on the shelves that sustain the environment

Progress on Waste:

measuring the waste on a store level
analyzing gos into the trash can
diverting some waste streams into new things:
- breaking down returned plastic products and …read more