Curated articles from various sources.
With Britain attracting so many foreign investments to their shores, one has to wonder if they are shooting themselves in the foot? If local owners were majority share holders, one would assume that job creation would be on the rise and that more employment opportunities would be created locally, thus empowering the community. By selling…
ByTED
Having RAW data available at your fingertips is a very powerful tool, it can change lives for the better. Tim Berners-Lee explains the endless possibilities and encourages us to get involved in this trend at his TED talk called “raw data now”. Tim explores a few interesting results, of when government, scientists, institutions and even communities…
Is it ever a wise thing in business to cut your losses and walk away? That’s the question on everyone’s lips as Ford sells Volvo to Geely. Some would say Ford got more out of the deal as they gained more technology from Volvo’s safety engineering. But the harsh truth is, that this was probably the…
There’s a massive debate going on in the medical world, with regards to the BRCA patent. Many claim that the two gene patents, unlawfully stifle both innovation and basic science. But given the history of patent rulings in America, that has been a fringe argument—until now. Federal district court judge Robert Sweet in New York made a ruling…
The want for more money is our human nature. The constant need for more driving us and pushing us. But how much is enough, and how far would you go to accrue more revenue, is question we all ask ourselves. Four Rio Tinto employees in China took matters into their own hands when their took…
What went wrong at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)? Albert Einstein once said “the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result”. It seems this might ring true with regards to poor decision making and risk taking that didn’t pay off time and time again at the…
