Even as the revolutionary tide sweeps North Africa and the Middle East – and potentially further afield – there is a quiet revolution going on around the world. Civil society,
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ContinueThis may be one of the weeks that redefines the shape of the world, although the impact is as yet extremely uncertain. The civil unrest that started in Tunisia, toppling
ContinueLast weekend bankers, including Goldman Sachs’s big guns, were actively courting GroupOn to lead its speculated IPO this year. This week Goldman (again) announced that it had raised a US$
ContinueGUEST BLOG from Greg Rice, CEO Activate Media, long-time Silicon Valley investor and tech guru: FaceBook now has 600 million users, less than six months since it passed the 500 million mark,
ContinueWhen Muhammed Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel peace prize jointly with Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below,” pioneered microcredit to help those
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