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A Tibetan advocacy group recently held the world's first video press conference via Google+ Hangouts. While the goal might have been to get attention from techies and journalists, it also gave us a glimpse into the future of video conferencing. A Tibetan advocacy group held what appeared to be the world's first Google+ -powered video press conference this past Friday.

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KickStart has introduced an innovative layaway program to African farmers so they can invest in low-cost irrigation pumps. Microfinance , the Nobel Prize-winning initiative to turn aspiring third-world entrepreneurs into self-sustaining CEOs, has long been the only game in town when it comes to offering developing world entrepreneurs a viable and sustainable form of funding. But other financial instruments may work just as well--if not better--at supplying small farmers around the world with capital and a path out of poverty

You finally found a manufacturer that can handle your demand at a reasonable price. But it's in China, which requires a flight nearly a day long to get there.

What spreads the sea floors and moves the continents? What melts iron in the outer core and enables the Earth's magnetic field

Scientific research has proven that Google and the easy access to information that it provides can be detrimental to memory. Practice these four tricks to reverse the brain drain

We're all human, you know? That's roughly the trick that the hackers most likely relied on when, earlier this year, they managed to steal over 24,000 files from a defense contractor

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Cyclist Borut Bozic drew his hands to his chest with a look of joy, disbelief and exhaustion after defeating some of the world's best sprinters in the Swiss village of Tobel.

People the world over eat more fish than the environment can sustain. In Europe, they ate a year's worth of fish by July 2

For some small businesses, doing business abroad is helping get them through tough times at home. Since last year the Obama administration has been pushing small businesses to venture into global markets, part of an ambitious goal to double U.S. exports by 2014.

Perfect for tedious tasks, Amazon's Mechanical Turk may be the perfect alternative to hiring temporary workers for singular projects. Think back to the last time you had a task for which you would've loved to have had an army of workers. Perhaps you had to sort through thousands of articles looking for something specific, or you had to transcribe hours of audio recordings, or you had to check for duplicate records in a database of thousands of entries.

Every week, the guys who funded the daily-deals powerhouse Groupon toss out a lottery ticket of sorts and let six completely unvetted entrepreneurs come in and pitch them. They’re calling it “Office Hours,” and while they’re hoping it will help them find the next big thing, they also believe it will simply play a role in juiceing up the entrepreneurial community in their home base of Chicago, which, they say, will produce long-term benefits of its own.

You've grown to 140 million tweets per day and impacted global politics.

Changing light bulbs won’t save the world. [More]

The company touts its environmental investing and shrinking carbon footprint and--oh yeah--how it's working to fix the housing crisis it helped start.