Posts Tagged with deal

Climate Draft “to Be Elaborated” in Copenhagen

In response to deadlocked talks on a new international agreement to fight global warming, a new draft that circulated Tuesday at the United Nations sponsored climate change conference does not feature any targets for carbon cuts or financing.
The new draft also fails to provide any long-term goals for emissions reductions, the peaking of emissions, and [...]

Filed under: News, Uncategorized on December 15th, 2009 @ 11:57 am

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Google Moves into Solar and Online Payments

Despite the recent moves to curtail the tech giant’s online dominance, prompting most companies to circle their wagons, Google appears to be taking the opposite approach, further diversifying its business model instead. I read this both as a sign of confidence in its current offerings and as a logical next step in order to leverage [...]

Non-Profits Making Acquisitions?

I’ve often written that non-profits and charities world be well served by taking cues from the business world by developing practices such as performance evaluations and affinity marketing to grow their reach and fundraising capabilities, but acquiring public companies is not something I would have thought to suggest. But that exactly what UK-based Housing 21, [...]

Filed under: News, Philanthropy on August 19th, 2009 @ 5:06 pm

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Facebook Acquires Friendfeed, What Do They Get?

In a move that quickly swept across the media landscape, Facebook announced that it had acquired Friendfeed, a single platform for receiving updates from more than 60 Web sites, including Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, for an undisclosed sum. The deal comes at a time when Facebook wants to leverage its audience of 250 million active [...]

Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 11th, 2009 @ 11:30 am

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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.

As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.