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Getting the Ideal Overseas Careers

Overseas career current market has witnessed overwhelming growth over the last two decades. A major share of national revenue for a number of growing places is a direct contribution of international jobs especially highest paying ...READ»

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Spider in the Sky: Ryohei Koike and Jarod Poenisch's Web-Tastic Skyscraper Proposal

Their concrete-and-carbon Nested Skyscraper is no place for arachnophobes.READ»

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Open Source Gaining Ground in Southeast Asia

Read some posts, news items and press releases today about the growing adoption of open source in Southeast Asia:READ»

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A Nation of Change Agents

  Last night, when I saw Barack Obama accept the nomination, I cried. I wanted my father to be there to see this. He was the one who taught me a black person was my equal, and the person who taught me a woman could be ...READ»

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A Nation of Change Agents

  Last night, when I saw Barack Obama accept the nomination, I cried. I wanted my father to be there to see this. He was the one who taught me a black person was my equal, and the person who taught me a woman could be ...READ»

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A Nation of Change Agents

  Last night, when I saw Barack Obama accept the nomination, I cried. I wanted my father to be there to see this. He was the one who taught me a black person was my equal, and the person who taught me a woman could be ...READ»

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Globalization: Bridging Across Cultures or Developing a Global Culture?

Why there is, as yet, no global business culture--and whether there will ever be.READ»

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Shifting Routes In The Airline Industry

At the annual Routes World Development Forum in Kuala Lumpur, 700 airports and 500 airlines begin the mating dance that determines who flies where.READ»

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Packing machine

Untitled DocumentPacking machine: What does packing machine do ? of course it's packing packages, Ruian Tengda Packing Machinery Co.,Ltd. Is Specialized Packing Machine, The Company Is Founded in 1997, and gets together 12 ...READ»

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Facebook-MOL Partnership Brings Virtual Credits to Real Stores

Facebook is partnering with MOL Global to deliver a new way to buy Facebook credits--in person at a MOL-connected store. It's a strange real world/virtual world crossover, and definitely a sign of the way future digital finances will ...READ»

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Our Lives Just Changed. Forever. And For The Better.

Obama wins. America gets a new service innovation capability. It took only seconds after McCain's concession last night for e-mails to start arriving from Brazil, Malaysia, and Europe. The most significant one, in my opinion, ...READ»

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Fast 50 2008: Air Asia

What can you buy with a quarter? Maybe a few drops of gas or a Jolly Rancher -- unless you're a former music exec named Tony Fernandes. Seven years ago, Fernandes paid 25 cents for a near-defunct carrier with two creaky planes and ...READ»

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Mighty Is the Mongrel

What does it take to win in the global economy? A commitment to mixing people, experiences, and ideas. Companies and countries that embrace diversity to stimulate creativity will be the ones that own the future.READ»

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Building Offices

Last night, the first episode of the new PBS series Innovation: Life, Inspired focused on "Building to Extremes," or the global race to develop the world's tallest building. Narrated by the nearly passionless Billy Crudup, the ...READ»

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Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

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Upcycling Gives Excess Clothing Fabric a Second Chance

Looptworks stitches together an upcycled business model for outdoor apparel.READ»

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Robotic Automation: Humans versus Machine Labor Costs

The average wage for a skilled U.S. auto worker is about $30 per hour plus spiraling 6% annual healthcare and retirement costs. The average cost for robotic factory labor is .30 cents per hour only 1/50 the cost of a skilled auto worker or 1/5 that of the average Chinese warehouse worker making $3 per hour. A single robotic courier can save a hospital $600,000 over five years. READ»

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Watercooler

What you'll be talking about this month when you talk about work.READ»

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Is Facebook Becoming the Whole World's Social Network?

Facebook's growth, which we already know is massive, is truly a global phenomenon, it turns out. And nations with the fastest membership growth rate are in South America, and Asia. Is Facebook becoming the global phone book?The data's ...READ»

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They Sure Don't Make Comic Books Like They Used To

It isn't mainstream, it hasn’t been seen before, and it’s definitely not into Superman. Make way for a company that, in eschewing superheroes, inducting celebrities, and creating internationally palatable South Asian edged content, is refreshingly new and different.READ»

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Grassroots Leadership - Royal Dutch/Shell

Steve Miller of Royal Dutch/Shell offers a powerful model of what leadership means -- a recognition that commitment and creativity come from all parts and all levels of an organization.READ»

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9.11.01 Voices

The power of any community is a function of the strength of its connections. Join the global Fast Company community as it asks: Where do we go from here? What's important now? How can we be of service?READ»

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Featured in the April Issue of Fast Company Magazine

The New Face of Al Jazeera, Page 42, by Linda Tischler With its often strident anti-American rhetoric and penchant for showing al Qaeda-produced hostage tapes, the Arabic news channel al Jazeera is seen by many Americans as little ...READ»

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Leader in Corporate Sustainability Arena Comments on Wal-Mart's Position

Scott Seydel remarks on my recent post on Conscious Capitalism as it relates to Wal-Mart.READ»

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Not Invented Here: Social Games and Asia

Moving from Seoul to Singapore takes the geeks to a small market that's quite evolved, and to the most comprehensive Asian tech conference yet, Echelon 2010. Here, I learn that one of the largest web markets, social games, is already ...READ»