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Pink Faces at Financial Times as It Pulls Amnesty's Crowd-Funded Anti-Shell Ad

This is the ad that Amnesty funded via social media last month. And this is the newspaper that turned it down. The Financial Times waited until "the last possible moment" to pull the full-page ad, according to Amnesty's U.K. blog, and ...READ»

2010: The Year of the Successful Online News Paywall?

Sweeping aside the controversy and nonsense surrounding the issue of online news content paywalls, the Financial Times has stepped up to the mark to note 2010 will see income from paywalls surpassing ad revenues. The FT Group's ...READ»

Pre-2010 Apple Rumor Round-Up

It's been awhile since Apple's launched a product, so you'd maybe think the rumor mill is silent. Think again, fanboy.READ»

Smart Giving: Look Who's on the Board

Whether you're an individual, company or foundation, making a significant contribution, you can get a good idea of an organization's vitality and prospects for success by taking a look at who's on the board. As the editor and ...READ»

Sex and the Boardroom

“Sex and the Boardroom: Is power the ultimate aphrodisiac?” screams from the tip top of the front page of today’s Financial Times in bold letters, referring to a page 10 article by Luke Johnson entitled “The sex snare set ...READ»

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Skip Google, and Try These Search Engines

If Google had a dollar for every competitor that was hyped to defeat it, the search giant would be worth a hundred billion. And well, it is. Live Search, Cuil, Mahalo, whatever--Google only feels luckier as the field grows. ...READ»

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$5 Solar Powered Kyoto Box Wins HP Climate Change Challenge

John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water to billions. The $5 solar-powered ...READ»

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Climate Change Competition Finalists Compete for HP-Sponsored Prize

Update: John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today. You can read more about it here. The Financial Times and sustainable development charity Forum for the Future announced the ...READ»

The CSR Debate

In his recent column in The Financial Times, Stefan Stern implied that it is okay for businesses to employ child laborers and pursue environmentally unsustainable activities so long as it is within the law and it is in the interests ...READ»

Will Corporate Social Responsibility Survive the Financial Market Implosion?

Financial Times columnist Adam Jones asks if CSR will wither and die in light of the current crisis on Wall Street. Read his blog column here. It's the perfect "legit" excuse to take a pencil through CSR initiatives ...READ»