The Securities and Exchange Commission has been busy recently looking into all sorts of sneaky-sounding market practices that may be giving some traders unfair advantages over others. This week, SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter told Reuters that she’s increasingly concerned about "sponsored naked access."

It's a bad sign when the product you're selling is so awful that you can't bring yourself to name it.

As Americans come to terms with yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, they aren't just doing it privately. They're broadcasting their thoughts to the world via YouTube, and those thoughts range from the grief-stricken to the tasteless. First comes the shock, such as this gentleman's reaction:

Google's (GOOG) leaders have always had something of a tin ear when it comes to apprehending how afraid people are of its power and ubiquity. Ken Auletta's new book, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, has a case in point.

Did you know that ground beef that has tested positive for E. coli is allowed to be sold after it has been cooked and processed?

I didn’t, until just now, and though the idea squicks me out a little, it turns out that it really isn't a big deal. After all, processing removes a lot of stuff that can't and shouldn't be sold to the public—that, in part, is what processing is.

The San Francisco Chronicle's tech blog has been stirring up life in the Valley lately, with a series of posts about Google's (GOOG) increasingly dull and conventional workplace culture. The vaunted sandbox and 20 percent time climate, Googlers complain, is giving into the inexorable pull of big organizations toward boring management arrogance and bureaucracy.

At one time, Delphi was just another component of the vast vertically integrated manufacturing, management, and marketing colossus that was the Big Old General Motors. But in the early 1990s, GM decided to de-integrate and created the Automotive Components Group as a separate entity. About a decade later, this entity became Delphi. By 2005, Delphi was bankrupt. The bankruptcy gobbled up four years, with Delphi only emerging recently.