According to a recent report by Reuters AlertNet, international aid agencies have been forced to scale back their operations due to the global economic downturn and falling donations, and face the possibility of having to take more extreme measures in 2010.
Although some countries and regions are showing signs of recovery, charitable giving around the globe [...]
Filed under: News on December 31st, 2009 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: charity, currency, donations, global economy, international aid, philanthropy, recovery, relief groups
After last week’s announcement by Ben Bernanke that the recession was essentially over, I think many of us probably breathed a sigh of relief. Here’s a man responsible for many of the programs which have been so hotly contested, programs which have funneled billions of dollars to banks who may or may not have used [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
Tagged with: analysis, ben bernanke, Dailyfinance.com, economy, finance, growth, jobs, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobe Prize, recession, recovery, stimulus, Unemployment, US
I was a bit stunned to learn that on average, it takes a patent application 32 months to receive final approval in the US, a fact that is clearly hurting the prospects of entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to move forward with their ideas and inventions. Given the nature of the business world, where in [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on September 2nd, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Tagged with: Business, economy, entrepreneur, funding, government, innovation, innovative, patent, patent approval, process, recovery, start-up, streamline, streamlining, US
There is little doubt that one of the key components in our nation’s economic recovery and ongoing security is a transition away from dependence on fossil fuels, particularly foreign oil, towards renewable energy solutions. But even as we move to develop sustainable energy technologies like solar and wind, are we neglecting the most important element, [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on August 7th, 2009 @ 6:18 pm
Tagged with: clean energy, energy, energy grid, funding, government, infrastructure, investing, investment, networks, recovery, renewable energy, strategies, strategy, sustainability, Technology
Recovery has been a huge buzzword for economic news in the past month. While many experts have said it is too soon to make any hard and fast assumptions either way, others have described the current financial climate as the beginning stages of an end to the longest global recession since the end of World [...]
The Financial Times reports today that tech giant and number one distributor of PCs and servers in the US, Microsoft, has taken a major hit in sales in this quarter. Though experts in the tech sector are not exactly hitting the panic button, a 17% drop in sales for a quarter in which competitors Apple, Intel, [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on July 24th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
Tagged with: Apple, Business, IBM, innovation, Intel, microsoft, PC sales, recession, recovery, Technology
Everyone sensed that the moment President Obama was elected President, we were witnessing a sea change in U.S. politics. It wasn’t only that he was the first African-American to be elected to the highest office in a country; he used terms like “renewable energy”, “equal rights”, and “diplomacy”, terms that had seldom been uttered in [...]
Filed under: News on July 24th, 2009 @ 7:31 am
Tagged with: bipartisanship, cutbacks, economy, f-22, fiscal restraint, Obama, recovery, Robert Gates, US
‘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.