Wang Jianyi, chairman of China’s optical fiber maker Futong Group, has joined FORBES’ billionaire ranks with a net worth of $1 billion, thanks to the company’s strong business performance.Read More
Global warming is often treated as a “fact or fiction” piece of conversation, but it’s hard to ignore new data released this week.According to the Associated Press, the United States set a new heat record with an average annual temperature of 55.32 dRead More
Technology’s brightest minds are memorializing Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old programmer and digital rights activist who committed suicide Friday.Read More
Global warming skeptics worry environmentalism may cripple economies with assorted misguided energy-related boondoggles, Finley writes. Anti-nuclear environmentalists, Finley adds, have increased electric bills and greenhouse gas emissions, over fearRead More
I was talking recently with the executive responsible for leadership development in a prominent Silicon Valley software firm that has been a long-term client. This organization has done a remarkable job of identifying their top talent and proviRead More
Brazil slips as Mexico rises in economic freedom index compiled by Washington DC think tank, The Heritage Foundation.Read More
Another graduation ceremony has come and gone, and Chauncey Woodard is still a student at the University of Alabama. He came to UA in the spring of 2008 after some time in community college, expecting to spend at most four years at the school. AfterRead More
Another graduation ceremony has come and gone, and Chauncey Woodard is still a student at the University of Alabama. He came to UA in the spring of 2008 after some time in community college, expecting to spend at most four years at the school. AfterRead More
CES, the Webbys, Disrupt NYC, South by Southwest, Social Media Week, National Small Business Week, Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Clinton Global Initiative… A non-exhaustive list of this year’s top 10 startup events for young treps.Read More
The New Year will not mark a clean slate. Congress and the president will re-convene their hostilities. And while the impasse will prevent legislative action to fix the level greenhouse gas emissions, the president is nevertheless preparing a more inRead More
The National Intelligence Council commissioned a report for upcoming global trends out to the year 2030. This detailed work has dozens of in-depth blog posts, by experts in their fields. It is a US-centric report because the goal of it is to figure oRead More
The musician and activist explains how technology provides the means to help us eradicate disease and extreme poverty.To say that Bono is the lead singer of the rock band U2 is like saying that Thomas Edison invented the record player: it leaves outRead More