Innovation has always been about people in rich nations getting the latest stuff and the rest of the world getting the castoffs as markets scale and prices come down. So why is Nokia looking to use Kenya to debut a free classifieds service, complete with a first-ever feature that allows people to shop using voice [...]
Filed under: News on December 23rd, 2009 @ 9:00 am
Tagged with: developing nations, economy, emerging markets, global economy, innovation
As a result of late stock and bond market rebounds, small investors are balancing their safe investments with riskier bets like emerging-market companies, commodities and junk bonds—making these among the ten best-selling mutual-fund categories this year, according to a special report by the Wall Street Journal.
Such market trends could signify that investors are trying to [...]
Filed under: Business, News on July 10th, 2009 @ 11:17 am
Tagged with: balanced portfolio, emerging markets, high-risk, investing, investment, mutual funds
‘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.