Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus - who invented micro-credits - and the Grameen Bank won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The Prize celebrates an unconventional but pragmatic approach that has had a huge impact on the life of over 500 million people, by providing the means for the poorest to improve their ...
The International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group and the Financial Times (FT) have just launched a research paper competition on private sector-funded development . The theme is “Business and Development: The Private Path to Prosperity” . C. K. Prahalad is among of the distinguished panelist, which augures well ...
Five million acres (two million hectares) of the Great Bear Rain Forest on Canada’s West Coast are finally being set aside as protected wilderness. Ten million more will be open to selective cuts. This is great news indeed for the rare wildlife that will get the protection it deserves.
This landmark ...
-Trusted conversations have fragmented to the social web --shifting the balance of power to communities -To regain trust, corporate websites will look more like a collection of real-time customer discussions --not just product pitches
This trademark application is a great find!The trademark description seems to cast a wider net than just price comparison. Amazon reviews have started aggregating reviews not just at the product level, but also for key product attributes (e.g. camera's attributes like picture quality, lens quality, and ease of use). You could see 1-click compare becomin […]
I'm surprised someone would even make the argument that newspapers shouldn't be engaging a community of readers, especially in times when readers' loyalty is so critical (and regardless of spam and trolls).Comments are particularly important for the segments of the news industry that will emerge stronger from the current downturn, such as loca […]
Tweetie for Mac is the cleanest Mac desktop twitter client, despite less functionality than tweetdeck or seesmicI also like twt.fm a lot. Very clean and simple app for #MusicMondays!
You (and a few other bloggers) convinced me to give it a try. Here's a side by side comparison of Google and Bing on a simple product search on the Palm Pre. http://img.ly/XO Let's say it's rather illuminating!
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