With more than 2,000 Internet movers and shakers, the LeWeb conference in Paris is the ideal venue for start-up ventures hoping to attract the investment and attention that could propel them to the next level.
A series of kiosks across the conference arena – a giant arts complex converted from a deserted morgue – saw hordes [...]
Filed under: News on December 16th, 2009 @ 11:37 am
Tagged with: Business, high-tech, innovation, internet, Internet commerce, start-up
Traditionally known as an offshore manufacturing center for worldwide brands like Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Apple, Taiwan has built a reputation for being a high-tech powerhouse for others, and now it might be poised to take that notion a step further. As a business model, the limitations of contract production are numerous – not having the [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 30th, 2009 @ 3:25 pm
Tagged with: brands, Business, flexibility, global, high-tech, infrastructure, innovation, innovative, production, profits, start-up, Taiwan
UN News & World Report has released its annual ranking of the nation’s best hospitals, categorizing them into sixteen groups with an additional Honor Roll of medical centers with high marks in more than six fields.
Unsurprisingly, Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore is ranked first, with Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), Ronald Reagan UCLA (Los Angeles), [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on July 16th, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
Tagged with: entrepreneur, healthcare, high-tech, Hospitals, innovation, innovative, investment, IT, medicine, patient care, Ranking, Technology, telemedicine, US News and World Report
In his recent cover story, BusinessWeek’s chief economist Michael Mandel wonders if much of the US economy’s downturn can’t be blamed on our overall lack of innovations, or perhaps more specifically, our inability to bring them to commercialization.
Mandel charts the path to our current economic woes, explaining, “In the late 1990s most economists and CEOs [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on July 15th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Tagged with: biotech, economy, high-tech, innovation, innovation index, Michael Mandel, pharmaceuticals, Richard Florida, Technology
‘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.