eBay has long been the leader in online auctions, but the venerable giant is facing rising competition in emerging economies from indigenous companies on a mission.READ»
There is a slick new television commercial advertising Apple's iPad. It includes a cool medical application that can be used for medical imaging. The advertisement shows a trend in medicine: in the last two years there has been an ...READ»
Want to know which business leader is reading Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? and who's reading The Iliad? See Part I. Let's see what some other leaders in business, CSR, and nonprofits have been reading this summer. Dominique Conseil, ...READ»
As President Obama addresses the Young African Leaders Summit today in Washington, he's recognizing the fast-changing face of the Continent--and what it means to American business in the next decade.READ»
"There are few things more bothersome than junk email," says conference
president Gordon Cormack. Last year, spam -- roughly 90% of all emails
-- cost businesses $130 billion in lost productivity, up 30% from 2007.
Scientists in ...READ»
While the almighty dollar sign is universally known (and the oft counterfeited bills undergo frequent upgrades), India's currency, the rupee, has been strangely bereft of an official symbol to use when denoting it in text. Today it'll ...READ»
My grandfather used to paint. He wasn't particularly good at it, but he found it calming. He would also make collages with found objects. I look at his work sometimes and try to figure out the stories he was trying to tell (he's been ...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»
A court in Nigeria has ruled that, rather like Fight Club, you do not talk about punishment amputations on Twitter. A human rights organization, the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, had been hosting debates on social media sites in ...READ»
Pixel Qi's screen tech is impressive in many ways, and neatly solves the e-ink versus LCD question at one stroke. It's curiously not available on many devices, however. Until now, that is: Pixel Qi is releasing a DIY mod kit for ...READ»
This neat little infographic (to see it enlarged, the source is here) shows the marketshare of mobile browsers by country, around the world--and the results are definitely surprising. Who knew that Opera was such a raging success in ...READ»
Zimbabwe's newfound diamond fields could have helped lift the country from its misery. Instead, they've fueled a cycle of government-sanctioned rape, murder, and thievery -- and pushed the place still closer to collapse.READ»
This week in TreeHugger: Scientists have engineered a bacteria to glow green when near landmines. Also, the US-China electric vehicle initiative, and a new, cheap solar cell prototype that's super efficient--and works underground. READ»
The Anita Borg Change Agent Award recognizes three experienced women from around the world whose work goes to the heart of the Anita Borg Institute's mission: to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and to ...READ»
In the final installment of our story about a new solar bag by PopTech, Cordelia Newlin de Rojas travels to the Navajo Nation to demonstrate how there's a need for the FLAP in our own backyard.READ»
Thanks to Richard Branson, one lucky fellow will tap the malty brew's semiquincentennial with a Virgin Galactic flight and a zero-gravity pint. (We're buying everyone a round if the winner says, "One two-step pour for man, one foamy ...READ»
That's what Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS), told us today. That providing business and management education to women in developing and emerging economies meets a "great need" for "enormous [investment] ...READ»
