Here's what caught Team InnoWed's eye today:
G-Phone? Hello?
The official Google Blog announces the company's acquisition of Jaiku, a Finnish startup (just seven employees, according to Helsingin Sanomat) that has developed ...READ»
Wal-Mart, take your victory lap.
Wal-Mart announced yesterday that the company has blown past an ambitious goal of selling 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs by the end of 2007 -- three months early. This is no small deal ...READ»
Over the years we've featured our share of MacArthur Fellows in Fast Company. Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Jim Fruchterman, the founder of Benetech, which creates technology for the disadvantaged. The late Samuel Mockbee, an ...READ»
The crack team of researchers here at InnoWed have scoured today's papers and news sites so you don't have to. Happy reading.
"If it's so good, why aren't you doing it?" - That, reports Thomas Friedman in The New York Times, is ...READ»
Some returning Iraq war veterans are facing another battle at home: The fight to find a job. In fact, unemployment among young veterans is significantly higher than non-veterans in the same age group, mostly 22-24, and dramatically ...READ»
One of my favorite innovators, Current TV, has been nominated for their first Emmy Award.
This is no small accomplishment. Current, the cable network started jointly by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, is barely two years old, and had a ...READ»
When you write a story about a 17-year-old who has created a Web site with monthly ad revenue of as much as $70,000, dropped out of high school, and turned down a $1.5 million offer to sell her business -- all this before she's even ...READ»
Yes, that's Lily Allen pictured on the right giving a sassy shout-out to Ashley Qualls and Whateverlife.com. The visa-challenged British pop star is personally thanking the little-known 17-year-old entrepreneur from Detroit because ...READ»
What kind of job did you have at 17?
I posed that question to the grown-ups I encountered recently while exploring Whateverlife.com. The teen-girl site and company was started by Ashley Qualls, an entrepreneur from a working-class ...READ»
What happens to an idea deferred?
Corel, the software maker who brought us WordPerfect and a whole host of design tools, didn’t want to risk finding out. Or, more accurately, one small band of engineering innovationistas decided ...READ»
