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There are big green dollars to be made by investors in green energy. You can wait for the coming tsunami of IPOs or take a look at 4 good plays now.

Collective wisdom can help investors determine whether a cash-rich company is doing all it should to put its stash to work for shareholders.

At the recent price of $140 a barrel, it turns out to be a mere 400 billion barrels, or just about the combined reserves of Iran and Saudi Arabia.

It's not always easy, but you've got options.

Crude has its biggest 1-day plunge in 17 years but can't help markets hold onto gains. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac slump again despite government efforts to build confidence. Intel earnings beat analyst estimates.

Both aggressive and hard to treat, liver cancer kills more than 650,000 a year in the U.S. alone. The American Cancer Society pegs the overall survival rate at less than 10%. Enter Aura Biosciences, a student startup that has developed an ingenious new means of delivering cancer-killing drugs to liver (and other) tumors.

When it comes to naming their products, many large U.S. companies have veered dangerously close to international embarrassment.

When it comes to naming their products, many large U.S. companies have veered dangerously close to international embarrassment.

In response to complaints from its merchants, eBay is tweaking the controversial feedback policy it unveiled this spring. Starting next month, neutral ratings will no longer negatively impact users' feedback ratings; eBay will also allow buyers to withdrawal negative marks once a dispute with a seller is resolved. But the most controversial part of eBay's changes - blocking sellers from leaving any rating but a positive one for their buyers - is here to say, eBay executives say.

There is perhaps no better example of the democratization of wine marketing than Gary Vaynerchuk. His almost-daily, 25-minute video rants about the subject, Wine Library TV, boast 60,000 viewers, who post an astonishing 300 to 500 comments per episode.

There is perhaps no better example of the democratization of wine marketing than Gary Vaynerchuk. His almost-daily, 25-minute video rants about the subject, Wine Library TV, boast 60,000 viewers, who post an astonishing 300 to 500 comments per episode.