Instead of cashing in on what could be a $1.2 trillion industry, our patchwork collection of local, city, and state governments fight over who should pay to update our infrastructure. This needs to stop. The hottest wave in technology today is not about the individual consumer, but the “smart city.”
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In the next 14 months, seven of the world's 20 best-selling drugs will be available in generic form. Jeff Glor reports on the expiration of drug patents and what it means for consumers
Read More »Navigate Blue Oceans To Undiscovered Business Opportunities
How is a blue ocean different from the usual business market? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Blue Ocean Strategy (2005) by W.
Read More »IAEA Chief Sees More Nuclear Power Use Despite Fukushima Crisis
TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of the U.N.
Read More »Video: Popular drugs go generic
In the next 14 months, 7 of the world's 20 best selling drugs will be available in generic form, dramatically slashing the cost for patients but also decimating sales for the drug companies that created them. Ben Tracy reports
Read More »Why Airbnb May Be Worth A $112M Investment
The site that lets you crash in a stranger’s house closed a huge round of funding today.
Read More »Infographic: How China’s Clean Tech Industry Crushes The U.S.
China may be the world's biggest polluter, but they're also investing heavily in clean and renewable energy solutions--and far surpassing the U.S.'s puny attempts in the process.
Read More »8 Tips for Business Partnerships
So you've found a business partner to help make your idea a reality. Be sure to ask yourselves these eight questions before incorporating. Given the unstable job market, and the risk of going it alone, many people are currently seeking to start businesses together.
Read More »Physicists closing in on ‘God particle’ (Update)
Experiments at the world's biggest atom smasher have yielded tantalising hints that a long-sought sub-atomic particle truly exists, with final proof likely by late 2012, physicists said Monday.
Read More »China Could Boost Apple To Trillion-Dollar Worth
Apple's destined to become the world's first trillion-dollar company.
Read More »A Breath of Fresh Air: New Hope for Cystic Fibrosis Treatment (preview)
In 1989 when scientists discovered the defective gene that causes cystic fibrosis, a serious hereditary disorder that primarily strikes children of European descent, it seemed as though a long-hoped-for cure might soon follow. After all, tests in many laboratories showed that providing normal copies of the gene should enable patients to make healthy copies of the protein specified by the gene. If successful, that feat would go a long way toward restoring health in the tens of thousands of people around the world who suffered from cystic fibrosis and typically died in their late 20s
Read More »Lighting Africa Illuminates A New Market
Commerce goes on at an evening market, thanks to a solar-lighting initiative that helps private companies do business in sub-Saharan Africa. | Photograph courtesy of Lighting Africa An innovative program aims to light up off-the-grid Africa by boosting supply and demand for portable solar lamps. FOR NEARLY 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, sundown means living, working, and studying by flickering candlelight or polluting kerosene lamps
Read More »Gary Hoover: Business Around the World
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
Read More »Even Tiger’s friends don’t know
Apparently Woods friends John Cook and Mark O’Meara are not privy to when the world No. 20 will return.
Read More »Centennial Anniversary: Bingham Rediscovers the Lost Inca City of Machu Picchu [Slide Show]
On July 24, 1911, Yale University lecturer and amateur archaeologist Hiram Bingham completed a steep climb from Peru's Urubamba River valley through the thin air of the Andes Mountains to one of the most significant and lasting discoveries in archeological history--the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. Perched about 2,400 meters above sea level and 80 kilometers from the onetime Inca capital of Cusco , the "Lost City of the Incas" remained undiscovered by the Spanish throughout their conquest of Peru in the 1500s
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