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 [...]
In an effort to get further involved in the growing opensource movement, Microsoft has announced that it will be creating and funding ($1 million annually) the CodePlex Foundation. The initial framing of the announcement, is as a neutral place for companies and developers to share ideas and interact, ultimately increasing the commercial opportunities for all [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 11th, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
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Since its merger with Nextel back in 2005, Sprint has steadily been losing ground to Verizon and AT&T, lagging behind in innovation both with its product and service offerings. But over the past year plus, the company has made attempts to right the ship, building out its network reliability, adding an iPhone competitor in the [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
Tagged with: Acquisitions, brands, Business, employees, Environment, Green, innovation, innovative, leaders, markets, mobile, networks, opportunities, opportunity, people, product, Sprint, success, sustainability
Fresh off the heels of last week’s blockbuster deal with Yahoo!, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia, another attempt to go after the top player in the space. While the Yahoo! deal was about tackling Google’s dominance of the search market, this newest collaboration takes aim at Research In Motion’s [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 11:45 am
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As it emerges from bankruptcy protection, General Motors is hoping it can capitalize on an untapped market for car sales, eBay, becoming the first automaker to utilize the popular online auction site for new vehicle sales. While the move is without precedent, eBay already does a brisk business in used vehicles through its eBay Motors [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 10th, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
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With the tense debate raging over how best to overhaul the healthcare coverage infrastructure, the White House has launched an offensive today against what it refers to as “viral whisper campaigns” designed to harbor dissent and negativity against the healthcare agenda.
Having taken many lessons from last year’s presidential campaign, the administration will be using the [...]
Filed under: News on August 5th, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Tagged with: bipartisanship, communication, David Axelrod, health, healthcare, insurance, internet, leaders, Obama, PR offensive, President Obama, progress, Rick Scott, Robert Gibbs, strategies, strategy, success, US
This week the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation hosted its first annual benefit concert “Reeve Rocks” in New York. The foundation is at the forefront of philanthropic efforts to raise money and awareness for spinal injury research but has been suffering from something like an image crisis as of late due to the fact that [...]
Filed under: Community, Philanthropy on July 31st, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
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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.