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Read More »Arab Air: How The Middle East Is Rewiring Our Friendly Skies
Illustrations by Catalogtree One new hub of global air travel is in the Middle East.
Read More »Interviewing Geoffrey Moore: How to Find Your Economic Sweet Spot
This article is part 7 of an 8 part series. Read part 6 here . Geoffrey Moore’s latest book, Dealing with Darwin , addresses how to achieve innovation at each stage of a company’s development.
Read More »What The Markets Say About Bin Laden’s Death: Cheaper Gas And Fewer Crazies
The geopolitical ramifications are, of course, the vastly more important ones, but the world economy shifted slightly last night as word of Osama Bin Laden's death hit the airwaves. If the markets are accurate, we're looking at world where there is less unrest in the Middle East, and, generally, less of a chance of everything coming completely apart at the seams.
Read More »The Revolution Will Be Skyped: Libyan Rebels Take To Skype, Chat With Students
"We are not armed creeps or terrorists," they tell a roomful of Lehigh University students and professors.
Read More »EBay’s Big Turkish Bet
Turkey in the middle of an online auction boom; now eBay has a big part of the action thanks to a local giant they've had a long relationship with. Auction giant eBay has committed themselves to the Turkish market by purchasing a 93% stake in local site GittiGidiyor , which has more than 6.4 million registered users. Ebay was previously a minority shareholder in GittiGidiyor.Terms of the deal were not disclosed
Read More »The Dead Sea Is Disappearing, But Could be Saved [Slide Show]
The surface of the Dead Sea, already 424 meters below sea level, is falling by a meter a year. Jordanians to the east, Israelis to the west, and Syrians and Lebanese to the north are pumping so much freshwater from the Jordan River that almost none reaches the sea any more.
Read More »Video: Brain damaged mom can see her triplets, judge rules
Paraplegic mother Abbie Dorn has been in the middle of a visitation battle with ex-husband Dan Dorn after he has refused to let her see their triplets after brain damage sustained during delivery of the triplets. Terry McCarthy reports with more and Russ Mitchell spoke with Legal Analyst Lisa Bloom and Psychologist Dr
Read More »"Hydro-diplomacy" needed to avert Arab water wars
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. [More]
Read More »Intel Bets on Egyptian Mobile Tech
Intel's purchase of Egyptian mobile software firm SySDSoft isn't just a massive cash infusion in a post-revolution economy: It's also Intel's savvy way of getting in on the LTE fanfare.
Read More »Robot Butlers Are Finally a Reality
PAL Robotics has been working on its REEM-x lineup of wheeled humanoid robots for some time. Now it's just revealed its newest edition, simply called REEM, which is its first commercial offering.
Read More »Sensory gardens create days of wine and noses
Imagine a garden where melon, peach, apple, lemon, pear and gardenias bloom. Then imagine holding all that in a glass.
Read More »Deja Vu: What Does the Gulf Oil Spill Tell Us About the Japanese Nuclear Crisis?
For the second time in under a year, a large-scale energy disaster is unfolding before our eyes.
Read More »Ikeda shaken by TV images in Japan before Doral
Yuta Ikeda received an e-mail in the middle of the night about a massive earthquake in Japan, followed by a devastating tsunami that slammed the eastern coast near the city where he went to college.
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