Waze: A People-Powered Mapping App Is Finding Its Way

The company makes an innovative, free smartphone app that taps collective driving behavior to create turn-by-turn driving instructions and even real-time traffic alerts, all powered by information gathered from its roving users…

Walmart to Stop Paying New Employees Extra to Work Sundays

As part of its efforts to reduce its labor costs, Walmart plans to stop paying its staff an extra $1 an hour for working Sundays starting in 2011, according to Bloomberg. The move won’t affect the retailer’s 1.4 million current…

McDonald’s Comparable Sales Rose 4.9% in November

McDonald’s (MCD) said that sales at stores open at least one year rose 4.8% in November from a year earlier.

Comparable sales rose 4.9% in Europe and the United States, and by 2.4% in the rest of the world, the company said in a statement.

“Contemp…

Microsoft Adds New Privacy Features to Internet Explorer

Microsoft (MSFT) is adding extra privacy controls to Internet Explorer to limit the amount of information that users disclose while surfing the Web.

The new Microsoft feature will allow users to create a list of sites that they want to block from tra…