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LONDON, United Kingdom Bill Gates, the world’s leading 13 pharmaceutical companies, governments and global organisations have announced unprecedented funding and support to eliminate and control 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTD) by 2020. More than US $785 million will be donated to control or eliminate these infections that affect around 1.4 billion people in 149 endemic countries
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Opposing SOPA, Wikipedia Considers Blackout . As a message to legislators who'll vote on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the next few days, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has threatened to blank out the pages of Wikipedia
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What to do when your biggest customer tells you that, essentially, your company is too small for them.
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The soft drink giant teams up with a top production studio to create an immersive experience so vivid you can practically taste it. Cascada means waterfall. But there's not a drop of H2O falling on visitors to the Cascada exhibit in Quito, Ecuador.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Beijing to fund a series of revolutionary agricultural and biotech initiatives. China might be using Gates to further its economic imperialism
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With its banking and financial infrastructure still in tatters, a new mobile service that allows Haitians to make and receive payments via text message is taking off and allowing commerce to flourish. Last year, Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake that caused widespread devastation--a tragedy that puts yesterday's quake, which sent shockwaves of worry up and down the East Coast despite little damage, into stark perspective. The impoverished country is still recovering--but slowly, as several reports have indicated
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You say you want a revolution?
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Gary Hoover is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and educator. He is the founder of BOOKSTOP and Hoovers, Inc. This is part two of my article series with Gary
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Gary Hoover is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and educator. He is the founder of BOOKSTOP and Hoovers, Inc. Below, Gary explains why he believes that Mexico is vital to the future of the U.S.
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Jason Baptiste is nothing if not confident . "We're sitting between two huge shifts," he told the audience at TechStars's Demo Day on April 11. "The shift in the media industry from print to digital, and the shift in the entire computing industry from point-and-click to touch-enabled devices
Read More »Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa?
The inside story of Matt Damon's bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe's great crises. Matt Damon, water warrior.
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Finding a professional translator who is truly skilled can be a daunting task. Here are five great tips to help you find a qualified linguist for the job
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Think the U.S. economy feels shaky?
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