Topic: Portugal

The Best of Artisan Cosmetics

If you wouldn't eat your bath and body products, you're using the wrong stuff, says Teporah Bilezikian, owner of the makeup company Monavé: "Cosmetics are like fresh batches of pudding -- they shouldn't last six months."READ»

Wind Could Drive 20% of World Power Needs By 2030, With China in Lead

20% of the world's electrical could be powered by wind inside 20 years--with China leading the way. Do we believe it? READ»

Why Bashing Millennials Is Wrong

The problem, Nancy Lublin says, may not be the generation we love to pick on but the people who don’t know how to manage it.READ»

• Five Millennials Who Have Done Something

Verizon iPhone Due by the Million in Early 2011

Three million CDMA-compatible iPhones are due to be produced in December 2010, ready for an early 2011 release. So says a financial analyst who's checked with production contacts inside Apple's supply chain. Is a Verizon iPhone finally true?READ»

With Banned Pot Leaf Image, Facebook Pushes U.S. Morals on World

What marijuana, breast-feeding, and Facebook have--or should have--in common.READ»

A City in the Cloud: Living PlanIT Redefines Cities as Software

When did Silicon Valley become so obsessed with building cities? Last month it was Cisco’s SVP of strategy Inder Sidhu describing the company’s smart city play as the $36 billion company’s “biggest opportunity.” Then, at the ...READ»

Algae Fuel Industry to Spin Goo Into Gold, but When?

Getting serious about building an algae fuel industry in the next 15 years.READ»

Japan Focuses on the Tech for Its 2022 World Cup Bid

Some people (Sepp Blatter, raise your hand) are not particularly enamored of the idea of soccer embracing technology, but one country is focusing on this for its bid for the 2022 World Cup. Japan, which hosted the tournament alongside ...READ»

Did North Korea Test Hydrogen Bomb Technology?

North Korea may have lost control of their World Cup game against Portugal (7-0!), but the nation's also lost control of something much more deadly: Waste products from its attempts to build a hydrogen bomb have been detected in South ...READ»

Crib Sheet: The Bilderberg Group, a Real-Life Illuminati for Conspiracy Theorists

Just outside of Barcelona there is a pretty little seaside resort called Sitges. Beloved by the gay community and horror movie aficionados, it is this year's venue for the Bilderberg Club's annual general meeting. "The what?" asked ...READ»

Euro Crash

CMG's Shawn Baldwin explores the implications of a weakened Euro READ»

Good Harbor Strategy Market Commentary

Commentary: If you’re a bull or bear, April certainly provided ample evidence to support your case. On one hand solid earnings reports from a number of companies, an encouraging GDP print and signs of improving consumer sentiment ...READ»

TED Opens Its Video Library to Broadcast Television Worldwide

TED, the conference at which many fascinating, time-wasting, and productivity-killing videos are made, has decided to make those videos available to broadcast TV stations worldwide. READ»

Macro Trends: America’s New Chapter

The stock market has rallied since March 2009 on cheap money and undervaluation; the former is unsustainable and the latter no longer the case.READ»

XAuth, An Alternative to Facebook Connect to Let You... Erm... Connect

One insidious way Facebook's worming its way into the social net structures of large parts of the Web is via its "easy login" system Facebook Connect. Now there's some competition from newcomers XAuth, if only they believed in ...READ»

Twitter's International Growth: Becoming the World's Water Cooler?

Not to be outdone by Facebook's impressive global growth trend, Twitter's just revealed some statistics about how many people Tweet around the third rock from the sun. Get this: More than 60% of Tweeps aren't American. Matt Sanford, ...READ»

The True Inconveniences of Designing Al Gore's Office

For a high-profile environmentalist such as Gore, politics sometimes interfere with making the right decision.READ»

U.S. Markets: A Week of Inexplicable Events

This snapshot of the market and the economy shows that things are far from normal, or what we once considered normal. The calculus that propelled investing over the last 30 years has dissolved. The new formula is being being created and tested in real time. The stock market and investing is currently unreal - it’s devolved awhile ago into, or, if you prefer, transformed itself into a momentum investing affair in an unraveling world.READ»

AT&T Chief Blows U.S.'s 3G Trumpet, Conveniently Forgetting About Euroland

AT&T's chief of Mobility and Consumer Markets Ralph de la Vega, got on his soapbox today and spouted about the U.S.'s fabulous 3G networks, which are leading the World. The trouble is, de la Vega is spouting some cell-phone ...READ»

Out of the Box Thinking: IKEA Storage Boxes Get Second Life as a Pop-Up Bar

Instead of dumping old storage boxes, why not give them a second life as alcohol-slinging pop-up shops? Designers Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto have provided an excellent blueprint for aspiring pop-up bar owners with their temporary ...READ»

World Cup Shirts to Be Made Out of Recycled Plastic Bottles

The best way to highlight your company's environmental commitments is to bring them into the spotlight. We're guessing that's the motive behind Nike's move to make this summer's World Cup shirts out of recycled plastic bottles. The shirts will be worn by all nine Nike-sponsored teams, including England, Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands.READ»

The 4G Revolution - Not So Fast, Speed Queens

The noise emanating from the pen in the communications zoo where the mobile carriers reside seems to be increasing. The U.S.'s largest mobile carriers, Verizon and AT&T, are trumpeting the impending arrival of 4G, the sequel to ...READ»

Jan Berkowitz

Adrienne Berkowitz, Jan Adrienne Berkowitz, Jan Berkowitz, Adrienne Aiken BerkowitzREAD»

How Santiago Calatrava's Buildings Marry Engineering With Biology

Santiago Calatrava's buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure.READ»

Global Discount Travel

Discount Global Travel Articles - Global Discount Travel Stories The Philippines Barrio Fiesta would be like any other barrio fiestas in the Philippines where there are lots of local foods being served to just about anybody who ...READ»