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Posted by Kathy Bazoian Phelps Below is a summary of the activity reported for October 2020. The reported stories reflect at least 9 new Ponzi schemes worldwide, 6 guilty pleas, 202 years of prison sentences, and an average age of…

American multinational technology company Apple has announced a plan to become carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030. In its 2020 Environmental Progress Report, the group has…

What impact has a move to remote working had on domestic energy bills? How does this impact utility business and what does this mean for digitalisation and the adoption of technology? Energy use around the world has dropped by up to 20%…

Smart grid modelling is set to benefit from a new Canadian R&D partnership established by Hydro Quebec’s research centre (CRHQ). CRHQ will work with Canada-based software solution developer E-Sim Solutions on collaborative simulation…

XRP has experienced some impressive price volatility lately. (Photo by S3studio/Getty Images) 2018 S3studioXRP, the digital token used by the Ripple network, lost more than half of its value in a matter of hours, falling sharply today…

Image credit: Olga Yastremska © 123RF.com Blockchain is on our ‘most-read list’ this week, with news that Steve Wozniak has launched Efforce, a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform. Efforce aims to enable contributors to support…

ROBINHOOD is a financial services company based in California that features a popular stock-trading app. CEO Vlad Tenev has insisted there was nothing “shady” about the firm's decision in January to halt trading in Gamestop shares. The…

Corporate procurement will account for about 20% of utility-scale renewable power additions in the US in the next decade—far ahead of the rest of the world, according to a new study released by IHS Markit. The US has a growing portion of…

According to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, the rate of home price increases reported a 9.5% annual gain in November, 2020.  Their 10-City Composite annual…

The U.S. Government is reporting that sales of new single-family houses in December, 2020 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 842k which is 1.6% above than November’s revised rate, but is 15.2% higher than one year…