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There is plenty of hoopla over the first major social network IPO.

Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .

By Aizhu Chen YUANBA, China (Reuters) - China has spent tens of billions of dollars buying into energy resources from Africa to Latin America to slake the unquenched thirst for fuel from its growing industry and burgeoning cities. [More]

The "creative brain" behind Google Creative Lab, Ji Lee , announced today he will head to Facebook to become the social network's newest Creative Director. The unexpected announcement came this morning at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Lee was a featured speaker for Creative Mornings, a "monthly breakfast lecture series of creative types" based in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Facebook's latest talent-grab from Google underscores a series of high-profile acquisitions from its biggest tech competitor.

01 / Azul > > For converting bus riders into frequent fliers. Brazilian-born David Neeleman, founder of Jet Blue, brought the low-cost airline model to his home country and tweaked it to fit its nuances

Paul Farmer, an iconic figure in publicizing public health problems in developing nations, has now joined a campaign to highlight the issue of cancer in Latin America, Africa and other areas where treatment of this chronic illness is often lacking. As he outlines in this interview with journalist Mary Carmichael, Farmer has devised an innovative approach to compensating for the lack of high-tech treatments in countries like Haiti

* Waves brush U.S., Mexico after thousands evacuated * Floods in parts of Latin America, little major damage [More]

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