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Farms Without Soil Take Root In The Middle East

BY Michael Coren | 04-26-2012 | 3:35 PM | YUICHI MORI

No dirt? No problem. A new technique lets you start a farm anywhere. READ MORE›

LivingSocial Invades The Middle East

BY Neal Ungerleider | 06-27-2011 | 12:39 PM | TECHNOLOGY

LivingSocial has acquired popular pan-Arab coupon site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum, which is good news for local startups and quite bad news for Groupon's struggling Middle East operations.READ MORE›

Web Anonymizers And The Arab Spring

BY Neal Ungerleider | 05-20-2011 | 3:05 PM | INNOVATION

A short discussion with the man behind Hotspot Shield about web anonymizers, the Arab Spring, and why expats in Dubai aren't happy with firewalls.READ MORE›

Arab Air: How The Middle East Is Rewiring Our Friendly Skies

BY Greg Lindsay | 04-01-2011 | 2:00 PM | MAGAZINE

One new hub of global air travel is in the Middle East.READ MORE›

Karaoke! Espionage! Haute Cuisine!: Adventures in the North Korean Government's Restaurant Chain

BY Neal Ungerleider | 01-03-2011 | 10:48 AM | ETHONOMICS

Dishes are approved by the Dear Leader but guaranteed not to make you Il. By expanding into Dubai and Amsterdam, the NK government's eateries are providing an alternative to arms sales in raising foreign capital. Food not bombs, indeed!READ MORE›

Massive Change Ahead in Middle East: Women Control $700 Billion and Counting

BY Jenara Nerenberg | 12-21-2010 | 11:51 AM | ETHONOMICS

Wealthy female investors in the Middle East are increasingly focused on the environmental and social returns of their investments--not just financial returns. According to Gulf News, women control 22 percent of the region's assets, ...READ MORE›

Abu Dhabi and Dubai Ports to be Connected Via Rail

BY Jenara Nerenberg | 09-29-2010 | 5:24 AM | ETHONOMICS

Dubai's bankruptcy hasn't stopped the United Arab Emirates from making multi-billion-dollar infrastructure investments.READ MORE›

Wiring a Smart City in the Desert

BY Greg Lindsay | 06-18-2010 | 11:54 AM | ETHONOMICS

Is Dubai the world’s smartest city? Maybe not in the sense that it mortgaged long-term infrastructure with $100 billion in very short-term debt, but “smart” in a way IBM, Cisco and other tech heavyweights would be envious ...READ MORE›

Design Crime: New Luxury Hotel Is a Five-Star Disaster Shelter

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 05-27-2010 | 10:00 AM | DESIGN

Slumming it never felt so rich.READ MORE›

Bridging the Modern and Middle East With Furniture Inspired by Bedouins

BY Cliff Kuang | 04-13-2010 | 10:00 AM | DESIGN

Swedish/German designer Katrin Greiling plumbs Arab traditions in her furniture designs.READ MORE›

Leaders Presents... Balanced Scorecard Forum 2010

BY Joey Fitts | 04-05-2010 | 2:15 AM | MAGAZINE

Joey Fitts chairs the BSC Forum 2010 in Dubai and will join Drs Kaplan and Norton for a 2 day masterclass. Fitts presents 3 sessions on The Social Strategist - explaining how new social media capabilities enable improved strategy formulation, communication and execution. www.leaderspresents.com/bscREAD MORE›

Financial Problems Hit Masdar City, the UAE's Sustainable Mecca

BY Ariel Schwartz | 03-22-2010 | 12:26 PM | ETHONOMICS

Oh, Masdar City. We had such high hopes for you and your self-driving electric vehicles, giant geothermal facilities, and rooftop gardens. And the plan to generate all of your electricity from on-site renewable sources? It doesn't ...READ MORE›

Video excerpt: Customer Intelligence @ Strategy Leaders Roundtable w/ Kaplan & Norton

BY Joey Fitts | 03-14-2010 | 3:09 PM | MAGAZINE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerKNhodrao Joey Fitts discusses customer intelligence at the Strategy Leaders Roundtable with Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton at Palladium's Americas Summit in San Francisco in November 2009. Fitts cites cases of organizations utilizing both structured and unstructured information to gain competitive advantage. Included: the case of a leading cellular communications company who realized a savings of USD $2 Million per month, an example from the book he co-authored, Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution.READ MORE›

Two Questions to Make Your Product Irresistible

BY Kaihan Krippendorff | 02-24-2010 | 8:54 AM | CAREERS

I could not sleep the night before my birthday. My mind was buzzing, not with dreams of birthday cake but with thoughts of what I had experienced earlier in the day. I was flying home overnight from Ecuador where I had just ...READ MORE›

World's Tallest Fail! The Burj Khalifa Is Temporarily Closed

BY Alissa Walker | 02-08-2010 | 3:11 PM | DESIGN

The Dubai skyscraper had only been open for about a month when it was unexpectedly shuttered.READ MORE›

Dude-Bai: Base Jumping the Burj, Brah

BY Alissa Walker | 01-08-2010 | 5:22 PM | DESIGN

Two jumpers took the plunge from the world's new tallest building and lived to star in a video about it.READ MORE›

Off the Deep End: A Look at the Decline of Dubai

BY Zachary Wilson | 12-01-2009 | 12:32 PM | DESIGN

Deserts have a way of reclaiming whatever is built upon them. In the case of Dubai, the global financial implosion has sent that process into overdrive. After six years of frenzied expansion, during which the population grew at 7% annually and nearly $600 billion went into construction, reality has come rushing into view.READ MORE›

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