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American companies have a golden opportunity to expand the country's top spot globally. Industry leaders meeting in New York laid out the huge opportunity but also warned that red tape and a relative scarcity of skilled personnel threaten to stifle efforts to build this clean-energy source.

MasterCard (MA) and Visa (V) may face a legal challenge to their decision to cut ties with WikiLeaks. DataCell, a data-hosting company based in Iceland, says that the two companies' refusal to process donations to WikiLeaks are costing it revenue. DataCell had previously facilitated the...

As the G-20 meets in South Korea, many world leaders have stepped up their complaints about the Fed's $600 billion quantitative easing program, as well as the rapid flow of capital into emerging markets. Some countries are installing capital controls in response, but those won't be enough, says global finance expert Peter Cohan.

Some travelers built makeshift living rooms in airport halls with cots encircling cardboard boxes, while seniors got a taste of the long-forgotten college life in dorms in Florence, Italy, and others plunked down thousands of dollars on cab fare in desperation to get where they needed to be...

Following the eruption of a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier, European air travel has been paralyzed. But the natural disaster has been a boon for other companies, especially the ferries that zip around European waters.

If you're among the hundreds of thousands of travelers whose vacation or business trips got covered in ashes by a volcanic eruption in Iceland this week, your travel insurance is likely to bail you out -- at least partly. As ash continued to spew into the atmosphere from a volcano in southern...

Nowadays, an Icelandic road trip is both unique and affordable to a good many college students. Though Iceland once had a reputation as one of the priciest European countries, since the island's bankruptcy in 2008, the dollar goes much further in Iceland now than in most of Europe. As the closest...

On Tuesday, McDonald's (MCD) announced its plans to leave Iceland. This weekend, the global restaurant's three franchises, all located in Reykjavik, will close their doors, as the country's weak economy has made Big Mac's prohibitively expensive. McDonald's has only been in Iceland for a few...

I finished up a pile of work (hence my lack of WalletPop blog postings so far in 2009), I've got a pile of frequent-flier miles on American Airlines that's nearing their expiration date and with the daily doom-and-gloom headlines, I'm ready to blow this joint. What other excuses do I need to take a...

In the best of times, it's easy to imagine that commodities and currencies are stable, unchanging things. After all, if gold was worth $400 an ounce yesterday, there is no reason to imagine that it will be worth a great deal more or less tomorrow. Similarly, if the dollar was able to buy a certain...