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Business Lessons From the Rich

What strategies can you learn about running your business from Switzerland? One of the most fascinating elements of Switzerland's success is its determination to remain neutral under unimaginable pressure to pick sides. The country has not declared a state of war since 1847 (it never entered the World Wars or the Iraq war) and opted out of joining the European Union.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Nonplussed By Google, Sets Facebook’s New Course

With 750 million members, the social network will no longer base success on user numbers but on the cool stuff they make using Facebook. This week Google launched its first step in revolutionizing the social network as you know it

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Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Go To College

As governments and universities around the world take a more active interest in Wikipedia's accuracy and reach, Wales talks about his site's new status. "I'm not sure if we are becoming a default 'official' source of information" he tells us, "but we are certainly the first port of call for hundreds of millions of people already." Wikipedia has evolved from the hobby of amateur enthusiasts to a fully-financed priority of academics and government agencies looking to improve what is quickly becoming the world’s first source of information. Just last month, the United States National Archives announced a "Wikipedian In Residence," a full-time liaison to the Wikipedia community.

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Scottish Open prepares world’s best for 3rd major

INVERNESS, Scotland (AP) -A host of the world's leading players will flock to the Scottish Open this week to test their links game on the recently opened Castle Stuart course in preparation for the British Open.

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Lindau Nobel Meeting–The future of global health

What can be done about global health? It's the question on everyone's minds following Peter Agre's moving talk on malaria 'without borders' earlier in the week and Christian De Duve handing the baton of all the world's challenges to the young researchers in

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A New Way To Aid The Poor: Ask Them To Pay

A new campaign to install toilets in the developing world rests not on aid, but on using marketing to convince villagers that bad sanitation is a problem they need to work together to fix.

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