“What better way than to have real-time information on a huge sign in the middle of Manhattan?”

Kevin Parker, CEO of Deutsche Bank’s asset management, explains the awareness-promoting benefits of a 70-foot digital billboard displaying the world’s carbon emissions in New York’s Madison Square Garden (New York Daily News).

“We won’t put our long-term success on the line with short-term budget cuts. That’s why our R&D budget is one of the largest in the automotive industry, and we intend to keep it that way.” Science|Business reports that German car makers pledge to maintain R&D spending – here quoting Dieter Zetsche, the head of Daimler AG. GM officials agree (Nature).

“This work would face possible plagiarism sanctions in almost any academic environment.” Law professor Michael Geist, a “one-man IP wrecking ball” (Ars Technica) finds that a report on the digital economy produced by the (part state-funded) Conference Board of Canada plagiarized a US lobby group report.