Tracy Davidson

Several times each year, the nation faces a widespread, food borne illness crisis. But there’s an easy, cheap technological solution that could stop scares and outbreaks in their tracks. A relatively simple system of QR codes – those funny-looking, two-dimensional barcodes you see everywhere today — could instantaneously link a product sold on store shelves back to the farm [...]

Between being kicked out of Zuccotti Park, barred from touching the Wall Street Bull statue, and arrested for lying down, it isn’t hard to see why the protesters of Occupy Wall Street have had a hard time finding their feet in 2012. But on Sunday and Monday, the movement will take to the streets again to honor one [...]

Hulu Plus, the online video subscription service owned by major broadcast networks ABC, Fox and NBC, reached a new milestone at the end of the year with 1.5 million paying subscribers a little more than a year after its formal launch. Its CEO, Jason Kilar, also brought in the new year with a comment Hulu’s broadcast TV owners [...]

Last October, President Obama announced a broad initiative to provide relief for college graduates struggling to repay student loans. In a speech at the University of Colorado in Denver, Obama said the plan will lower monthly payments for 1.6 million borrowers. Jessica Fernandez won’t be one of them. Fernandez, 29, of Bridgewater, N.J., was laid off from [...]

Oh, no! It’s Friday the 13th! Superstitious investors may remember the mini-stock market crash of Oct. 13, 1989, when a megabillion-dollar leveraged buyout of struggling airline carrier United Airlines hit the skids and contributed to the Dow plummeting nearly 7% on that fateful day. And who can forget the massive 6.8 earthquake in northeastern Turkey [...]

After the overspending, overeating, and general overextending of December, it’s hardly surprising that so many people choose to spend January turning over new leaves. But even beyond the month of new diets, new workout programs, and new strategies for resisting the siren song of cheesecake, the beginning of the year is the perfect time to [...]

Target (TGT) may be planning to add something that’s chic but certainly not cheap to some of its stores. Sources are telling Apple (AAPL) watcher AppleInsider.com that the tech giant will open small stores within 25 of Target’s largest stores later this year. However, if you already live in a major city that has a stand-alone Apple [...]

It has only been a month since the last Ranger rolled off the assembly line at a closing Minnesota plant, but the repercussions are still rolling through Ford. At least twice during the big auto show in Detroit, Ford executives were called upon to defend their decision to kill the Ranger in the U.S. and [...]

Now, there’s an online movement to get her to attempt what could be her biggest feat yet: going bald to fight cancer. A Facebook page titled “Beautiful and Bald Barbie! Let’s see if we can get it made” was started a few days before Christmas. By Wednesday afternoon, the page had more than 16,000 fans. [...]

Twitter lambasted the changes as “bad” for consumers and Web publishers. Meanwhile, a privacy watchdog group is threatening to complain to the Federal Trade Commission. Google says it’s simply trying to make searches deeper and more personalized for millions of people. The kerfuffle that began Tuesday, shortly after Google announced new features, underscores growing rivalry between [...]