Damming the Info Flood: Gates Looks For Balance

At an annual CEO meeting at Micosoft's Redmond, Washington campus, chairman Bill Gates gave a fairly simple (if difficult to implement) directive that businesses should do more to guard against information overload for their employees while increasing productivity.

China Places New Taxes on Textile Exports

China is placing new taxes on many textile exports in an effort to ease some of the country's trade tension with the United States, which has been increasing pressure on the country.