Nader Challenge to American Legal Community: Take Justice Scalia Up on His Invitation to Put Corporate Personhood on Trial.

Government and business leaders have concluded their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland with a discussion on the impact corporations are having in promoting economic advancement in developing countries. From Davos, VOA's Barry Wood reports the consensus is that the impact is a positive one.

Some of the world’s most influential business leaders, statesmen and non-governmental organizations will be in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum this week (1/23-27.) They’ll be talking about a broad range of issues that affect world development. Voice of America English to Africa Service’s William Eagle reports.

In business today, there are two concepts everyone can accept: Change is inevitable, and communication is vital to success.

Fujitsu Limited announced that, at a meeting of its Board of Directors held today, based on Article 370 of the Company Law, it has decided to spin off, through simple incorporation-type separations, its shared technology and design divisions and convert them, as of October 1, 2007, into two newly established corporations, Fujitsu Advanced Technologies Limited and Fujitsu Design Limited.

Alhambra Resources Ltd. ("Alhambra" or the "Corporation") announces that its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders will be held at The Westin Calgary, 320 - 4th Avenue S.W., Calgary, Alberta on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 2 p.m. (Calgary time).

Manulife Financial Corp. and its subsidiaries, including John Hancock, settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday for nearly $19 million for allegedly using mutual fund assets to pay brokers for preferred treatment, regulators said, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Most grew up with the familiar saying, "It is better to give than to receive," and many corporations live by this adage when they donate money to charitable causes. University of Missouri-Columbia researchers, however, have found that corporate giving may not be the cure-all that some companies would expect.