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iFive: Apple's Record Finances, India's Own OS, EU Versus MS, China Censors Nobel Online, Google's Car

BY Kit Eaton
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Tell you why you might like Mondays: Our brief summary of the early news might distract you before work....READ»

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iFive: Nobel Peace Prize, Online Toddlers, Yahoo's FaceTime, Adobe-Microsoft Merger Muttering, London Bike Successes

BY Kit Eaton
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If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. If you must have news, here's the early bits, in manageable chunks.READ»

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Daniel Kammen: Energy From Algae Is a Wildcard

BY EarthSky.org
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Daniel Kammen: From our analysis, probably the most interesting feature about algae is that it's a wildcard. Algae might be a big player, but right now, it'll take some breakthroughs for us to see that. Daniel Kammen is ...READ»

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Nokia Siemens Sued by Iranian Activist for Aiding Government Spying

BY Austin Carr
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Iran's Green Movement might want to consider switching to BlackBerry for its call-to-action tweets.READ»

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Three Steps for Changing Reality

BY Kaihan Krippendorff
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Last Sunday, an article I was reading covered Elon Musk, who made his riches helping to build PayPal and is now CEO of Space X and Tesla Motors. A few years ago, while doing research for my third book, I interviewed Musk. I was struck by the same thing the article covered: does Musk twist reality? READ»

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On a Wing and a Prayer, Dalai Lama Tweets to Chinese

BY Kit Eaton
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Today the Dalai Lama will get to broadcast his thoughts to many thousands of Chinese, 140 characters at a time. He's considered an undesirable to the authorities there, remember, and his team has had to resort to some holy hacking to ...READ»

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Human Rights Watch (HRW)

BY Maggie Namjou
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I am an active supporter of Human Rights Watch, an independent organization of individuals who are intently working to defend and protect human rights around the world. HRW directs global attention to human rights violations, ...READ»

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Baby-Boomer Senior Entrepreneurs

BY Mr Rickman
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Throughout corporate America daily water cooler gossip often involves talk of retirement. Perhaps you recognize such retirement conversations, the day many dream to sail off into the sunset resting at that peaceful gated community or ...READ»

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Win A Million Dollars

BY Terry Tamminen
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How about these ideas for future million dollar prizes...READ»

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Why the FCC's Broadband Plan Will Struggle to Connect with the Public

BY Addy Dugdale
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Today is when the FCC delivers its National Broadband Strategy to Congress. We've already had some sneak peeks at the deets, such kitting 100 million households out with super-fast speeds with either a free or lo-cost version, getting ...READ»

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Senior Entrepreneurs Business Startups

BY Mr Rickman
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Throughout corporate America daily water cooler gossip often involves talk of retirement. Perhaps you recognize such retirement conversations, the day many dream to sail off into the sunset resting at that peaceful gated community or ...READ»

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Avatar: Lessons On Realizing Your Vision

BY Kaihan Krippendorff
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This week Avatar, James Cameron’s 3D movie, broke an historic barrier by becoming the highest grossing film of all time. It beat out Titanic, also a James Cameron movie. The story of how Cameron engineered this feat offers a ...READ»

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A Baltic Cruise - Part Six - Arhus, Denmark and Oslo

BY randi420 box
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One Sunday we returned to Denmark, as our boat anchored in Arhus, an attractive city university. Among the 300,000 inhabitants are 40,000 students. There was a lot of high schools on the pier to welcome you to the port in Aarhus Havn. ...READ»

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Bad Apple: Censoring the Dalai Lama in China iPhone Apps

BY Kit Eaton
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Oh dear--this isn't going to end well, and it's a shame. Apple, which usually enjoys a rosy-tinted PR glow, has soured its image by censoring iPhone apps that relate to the Dalai Lama in China.READ»

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Obama To Attend Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

BY Fiona Robbins
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Barack Obama will be attending the Copenhagen climate change conference after much speculation.It is suggested that he will attend the conference on 9th December, before appearing in Oslo the following day to accept his Nobel Peace ...READ»

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Are CO2 Emissions From Deforestation Exaggerated?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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It's easy to shrug off climate change deniers who use incomplete or inaccurate data in their arguments, but it's a harder pill to swallow when supposedly reputable organizations dupe us with exaggerated claims. Yet that's exactly ...READ»

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Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

BY Shel Horowitz
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Negroponte and Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing CountriesREAD»

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Top 20 Reactions From Pundits and Politicians on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

BY Kevin Ohannessian
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President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is a lightning rod of debate. Here are the best quotes from the maelstrom.READ»

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Obama Backtreads, Nominates Agri-Biz Lobbyists to Key Posts

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Well, that didn't take long. The afterglow of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people" has already faded. The President has stirred up controversy ...READ»

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Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash

BY Jennifer Vilaga
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The Fast Company staff offers five from-the-hip ideas of organizations that could use Obama's chunk of change to make a massive impact. READ»

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Miley Cyrus Leaves Twitter, Yet the Internet Limps On

BY Chris Dannen
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The departure of Miley Cyrus from Twitter has caused seismic waves of socio-technological uproar--or so you'd think by reading elegaic posts from the Washington Post, Yahoo News, Reuters, MSNBC and, perplexingly, NJ.com, all of whom ...READ»

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Good Cause, Good Ideas, Good Money

BY Kaihan Krippendorff
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When I pull up to the village in which my mother grew up in Bangladesh, I feel like I'm on the set of a cowboy movie. Two long streets cross in the center, each bordered by a well-planned lineup of storefronts. From this ...READ»

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Create A New Category – Build A Profitable Niche

BY Kaihan Krippendorff
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On Wednesday I started an examination of an investment strategy firm that specializes in microfinance, Minlam Asset Management. As I interviewed one of Minlam’s founders, Mike Hokenson, I noticed a reoccurring theme that I see ...READ»

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Jack Welch, A Proponent of Conscious Capitalism?

BY Lewis Perkins
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Right now, denizens of young corporate leaders and entrepreneurs who are fighting the good fight –getting investors and their corporate leaders on board with new and more sustainable ways to view business – are perking up at the recent words from former GE Chairman and CEO, Jack Welch. If you have been reading my blog, you have followed my discussions of sustainability as a part of corporate consciousness for the past months. Today, I was pointed towards the latest word from Mr. Welch, publically stating that it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains. Wait, wasn’t it Welch who originally created the “shareholder value movement” in the early 80s? READ»

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Are you eating Humble Pie?

BY Natalie Jenkins
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What’s happening on Wall Street this week is scary, no doubt about it. Many people are having to re-think what they need to do for their financial survival. The simple things in life are becoming more important. I heard on the ...READ»

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