Innovation

Khoa Phan: Six Life-Changing Seconds

Vine has propelled Khoa Phan to fame and fortune. The young Californian explains: “I started making “vines” to bring my imagination into reality for...
Older businesswoman behind desk

Female and over 50? You’re getting to the good part, Forbes...

By HEATHER LEAH SMITH FORBES will release its first 50 Over 50 list in June, focusing on US-based women who have found their calling or...
Bear Robotics Servi

Guess who’s coming to dinner…?

By HAL WILLIAMS FIRST ChatGPT came for your literature, now AI’s coming to dinner — but it promises to behave itself. Bear Robotics is launching Servi,...

Digital Detectives: The Disassembly of a Cyber Missile

The ever-present threat of infection by vicious viruses hangs like a Sword of Damocles over anyone using a computer. The dark art of remote...
ILO SCORE

SCORE-ing big! How a cooperative approach to improved work conditions in...

Improving SMEs workplace practices can help them achieve better productivity. The ILO’s SCORE Training programme is helping companies in China improve work conditions, and...
Candela Seven

EV News Round-up Summer 2020

By RICHARD THOMAS BUYING an electric car is getting easier (read, cheaper) in Europe. France has announced a motor industry package that includes discounts of €7,000...
Artificial Intelligence

Masayoshi Son: Great Business Visionary, or Deluded Dreamer?

He’s won, lost, then won a fortune again. Now he has amassed the gigantic ‘Vision Fund’ from which to spread investment around the world’s...

Sir Richard Jolly: Development with a Human Face

In May 2012, a distinguished group of international economists and social scientists published Be Outraged: There Are Alternatives, an impassioned critique of austerity economics....

Ann Makosinski: A Beautiful Mind

Inventors don’t always make the best entrepreneurs. The skills and attitudes needed to develop new ideas are not the same as those required to...

Carlos Rangel: On Savages, Revolutionaries, and Idiots

Driven by nostalgia for times that never were, victimised by foes that never existed, and waiting for an enlightened leader who never arrives: most...