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Nokia's market share in all phone sales in Australia for the first quarter of 2011 was 24.6%--great, if it hadn't been 49.5% in the first quarter of 2010. Nokia's market share has halved.

Need to get from Aspen , Colorado to Miami? How about Los Angeles to Dubai? If you want to do it in style, the person to call is Adriann Wanner, president and co-founder of evoJets , an upstart private-jet charter company

In the midst of the Egyptian revolution, David Gorodyansky and Eugene Malobrodsky, co-founders of AnchorFree , came in to work one sunny morning and realized something peculiar: Overnight, their company had scored about a million new customers in Egypt. "It was absolutely fascinating," says Gorodyansky. "Our original idea for AnchorFree was to make your Facebook and e-mail become just as secure as a banking site.

President Obama has called for the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year and the remaining 68,000 by the end of 2014, but questions linger regarding what the troops are leaving behind after more than nine years of combat. In particular, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has accused U.S.

Facebook VP David Fischer explicitly downplayed the social network's role in Middle Eastern revolutions to an Israeli conference which included a tech industry who's-who. One of Facebook's highest-ranking international executives told a dignitary-packed Israeli conference that the website played a minimal role in the Arab Spring .

Simply forcing the U.S. automotive industry to comply with tougher fuel economy standards won't be enough to create substantial cuts in either greenhouse gas emissions or oil use, says a new report from the National Research Council

The market was created to avoid the red tape that keeps many small-time food operations from getting off the ground.

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on the latest plan to shore up our country's finances and jumpstart the economy: A new tax-repatriation holiday. The holiday would involve drastically lowering taxes on corporate profits for companies that choose to bring assets back into this country. (It's common practice for big companies to store most of their cash in tax havens in order to avoid paying the 35 percent corporate profit tax

Community-minded entrepreneurs can legally structure their businesses to provide a social benefit and to turn a profit. Social entrepreneurship has grown to include an estimated 40 million people working worldwide to address the most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. With so many companies claiming to be eco-friendly and socially responsible, it's becoming more difficult not just for consumers but for investors to separate a good company from a good marketer

Ogilvy ECD Ramos says, let's put the B in BRIC. Brazilian creative Anselmo Ramos left his homeland to work in Europe and the U.S. for 12 years

Anatomy of a winner takes us through the key decisions that took a piece of work from good to great--and won the campaign for NTT DoCoMo Touch Wood SH-08C a Golden Lion at Cannes.

I'm pleased, although not surprised, by the incredible wave of reactions to and comments about my post, "Great People Are Overrated." (I'm also not surprised by the vitriol and personal nature of some of the barbs aimed at me. That seems to go with the territory whenever you question an article of faith among the web startup crowd.) My guess is that the post touched a nerve because it touched on one of the great dividing lines in our business culture today. As members of an economy, a society, and a collection of companies, all of us are engaged in a conversation (sometimes explicit, mainly implicit) about what makes the world go 'round -- individual brilliance or group genius, self-possessed superstars or well-rounded teams.

In the past decade or so the proportion of AIDS cases in the southern states of the U.S. has largely risen or remained unchanged compared with other regions of the country

By Priya Shetty of Nature magazine A clinical trial that came under fire in India threatens to have a dual legacy: inflaming unfounded fears about a lifesaving vaccine and raising new questions about the management of medical research in the country. [More]

Matt Kuchar and Zach Johnson won the CVS Caremark Charity Classic with a record-setting two-round total of 24-under par 118 Tuesday at the Rhode Island Country Club.