Offshore oil finds are setting off a wave of deal making -- and reheating a dispute between the U.K. and Argentina. Brazil's Petrobras will get a big piece of the action from north of Rio to Uruguay, but other heavyweights are moving ...READ»
In 1986, the city of Lima, Peru, began construction on a set of concrete columns and passways that were supposed to be part the infrastructure for an electric train system. The plan fell through--maybe it was hatched before its ...READ»
I'm a innovation consultant from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Recently, my proposal for writing a manifesto in Changethis.com has been accepted and the manifesto proposal is titled: "Innovation 3.0: Focus on releasing ...READ»
Nations, leaders, and companies that speak the language of genomics will soar; those that don't will fail. It's just that simple, says Juan Enriquez, a globalization guru at Harvard who fears a growing chasm between scientific haves and have-nots.READ»
Sharky is a floating tea-infuser that looks like a shark fin marauding through the dangerous waters of your tea mug that simultaneously releases streamers of steeped tea that look suspiciously like the detritus after a nasty shark ...READ»
After seeing countless shoeless impoverished children in Argentina, Blake Mycoskie started TOMS Shoes in 2006 with a simple idea: If you buy one pair of shoes, TOMS gives one pair of shoes to someone who needs them.READ»
On this day in 1943, brothers Laszlo and Georg Bíró filed a patent for what's now one of the world's most common writing instruments. Others had tried to design a self-inking mechanical pen that rolled on a ball, with little ...READ»
Something to be thankful for the holidays: London-based fashion outfit Kurt Geiger is having 30% discount sale on leather shoes. The leather lace-up dancing boot is available at 50 euros. Here in the US, nonprofit shoemaker TOMS ...READ»
It's easy to see why some vacation spots are unethical. A region or country where locals live in squalor while visitors stay insulated in fancy hotels, for example, is not the ideal ethical travel destination. But some spots are ...READ»
It's easy to buy strawberries and plums in February if you don't think about the thousands of miles they traveled to land on grocery store shelves. James Reynold's "Far Foods" concept makes it more difficult to ignore by placing ...READ»
This Saturday as world leaders from the G20 meet in Washington, the topic du jour is stabilizing the world economy.
Leaders from the United States, France, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Germany, India, ...READ»
Other manufacturers may produce colorful balls for next month's FIFA World Cup, but there's only one official ball, and for the 11th year, Adidas earned the right to field its version of what a world-class ball should look like.This ...READ»
I read a BBC article yesterday on how 'Ugly people in Argentina are striking back.' A man named Gonzalo Otalora has been "ugly" all his life and he's taken it upon himself to bridge the gap between the beautiful and the ugly so to ...READ»
In 2006 I was asked by a client to help them create and maintain an online pressroom where they could post press releases and include an RSS feed for journalists to subscribe to receive news and information directly from the ...READ»
AES is big, rich - and unlike any company you've ever seen. It builds power plants by handing power to workers on the front lines. Its radical business model has worked wonders in the United States. Can it also work in Hungary, China, and Brazil?READ»
