Investors have a variety of options from which they can choose to invest and grow their money. Each one carries its own risks, game plan and category.Trust Deed InvestmentsFrom the stock market to deeds of trust and savings bonds, ...READ»
George Soros is going to put a billion dollars of his business fortune into clean energy. But will the cash go to change the political attitude toward global warming or is it offset by recent figures that seem to suggest evidence of ...READ»
Google has created a service that tracks Americans' search queries as compared to market growth--and it works.
The project, called Google Domestic Trends, is an outgrowth of the company's lead economist's research into whether Google ...READ»
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, coined the phrase Artificial Artificial Intelligence, and invested in human spaceflight startup Blue Origin. Now he's expanding his portfolio to include robots.Specifically, he's investing in Heartland ...READ»
An ancient Chinese saying advises that you “borrow a road”
to reach your objective. If someone else has access to your customer, then
borrow his road to share this access.
An interesting permutation of this pattern is ...READ»
Amazon's purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos was surprising and interesting news all by itself, but now comes a twist: reports that this marriage made in e-commerce heaven may have been a shotgun wedding forced by Zappos' ...READ»
Star bank holding firm Goldman Sachs has been getting its fair share of antipathy this month. First it was Rolling Stone's polemic against the bank; then it was BusinessWeek's sobering review of how the 140-year-old firm will be ...READ»
Smart businesses and investors will now need to crack “The Carbon Code” to figure out the winners and losers - - and just how much to adjust their business plans and portfolios.READ»
IBM's just announced that it's pulled together $100 million to invest in future cell phone tech. It will be used to improve things like cell-phone security, user interface functionality, and business use of cell phones. But, when ...READ»
Instead of waiting (and paying) for giant solar farms and mega-scale transmission lines to be built, what if you could start generating your own clean energy tomorrow, for 60 percent below retail prices?READ»
Ahead of the 15th anniversary of the genocide, Paul Kagame talks about the memory of 1994, Rwanda's development plans, and its custom-made democracy.READ»
Silver Spring Networks, a flush smart metering company, is one of Google's first investments in its newly-created venture fund. The company develops networking boards for power meters that monitor and curb electricity consumption. ...READ»
Google is a big player in several technolgy fields, but until now, the search giant hasn't been a major player in high finance. The company recently amassed a fighting fund of $100 million to form a new venture capital entity. It ...READ»
PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Hennion and Walsh is pleased to announce the introduction of its SmartTrust[TM] Diversified Dividend Trust (2007 Series A), a unit investment trust (UIT) whose objective is to provide investors with the potential for capital appreciation and current dividend income.READ»
While Li-ion battery makers in the US are going cap-in-hand to the government in search of federal aid to keep up with foreign companies, it's been rumored that Nissan and NEC are about to invest around $1 billion of their own capital ...READ»
The actual business is not understood today, because the business is not managed
You may wonder, how can a business incur billions and billions of dollars in losses, without being aware of the possibility and actuality of loss. ...READ»
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The majority of people in developed regions of African countries still have no access to credit cards. Of the African banks that do offer credit or debit cards, ...READ»
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Google Invests in Kenya’s Mobile Planet
This week Google made the announcement that it is making a minority stake investment into Kenyan mobile operating company Mobile Planet…
Google ...READ»
On Tuesday, I wrote a post on T. Boone Pickens, the oil colossus-gone-softy, who is currently waging a ubiquitous, multi-million-dollar ad campaign to convince Americans to stop guzzling gasoline like it’s Happy Hour at TGI ...READ»
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Forbes Calls Africa The ‘Last Investment Frontier’
“In 1989, there were just five sub-Saharan stock exchanges; now there are 16." - Forbes, John Christy
Africa Thriving ...READ»
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Google Launches Africa Blog and Forum
Google made a surprise announcement this week launching a new blog specifically focused on their efforts in sub-Saharan Africa....
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