A lime green Kiira EV pictured in this story (with video) may herald the beginning of a new phase in Ugandan transportation. The hybrid car, designed by students at Makerere University, is the first EV ever produced within the central African country.

There has been a trend lately of tourism organizations launching campaigns featuring real people talking about their experiences. Mexico, doing likewise to change perceptions about conditions that tourists find there, has a new raft of commercials for the Mexico Tourism Board with a "Taxicab Confessions" theme. The $30 million campaign, set to run in major cities, also includes online and print advertising.

The Focus Electric battery cars will roll into California showrooms next month and will roll out again for about $40,000. The Focus EV is part of a wave of battery-based vehicles the Detroit maker plans to roll out over the next several years, including plug-ins and pure battery-electric vehicles. It launched its first battery car, the Transit Connect Electric, late last year. The Focus will be Ford's first passenger car to run on battery power alone.

Filene's Basement, which survived two bankruptcies and the loss of its flagship Boston store, is closing its 21 remaining shops. The company filed for bankruptcy protection this week - the third time in just over a decade - and plans to hold liquidation sales during the holiday season before shutting its doors for the last time in January.

Walmart chief merchandising officer Duncan Mac Naughton said he felt good about the company's holiday season prospects during comments at a Bentonville Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce meeting with attracted more than 500 people. The function was held on Tuesday.

The spread of infected online ads has spiked tenfold over the past year, according to research disclosed by security intelligence firm RiskIQ at a recent Online Trust Alliance conference in Washington, D.C.

Facebook's coming overhaul of its members' profile pages will more prominently show users' Facebook pasts all the way back to the creation of their accounts.

Kraft reported higher third-quarter sales and earnings Thursday, citing price hikes and strong sales of new products.

When Toyota took a prototype of the all-new Camry sedan to U.S. dealers during the spring of 2010, they got something unexpected: a thumbs down.

Seven in 10 parents of underage Facebook users admitted to helping their kids sign up.