Last 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$
ContinueThis week’s summit in Washington between Hu Jintao and Barack Obama was carefully choreographed to put the emerging relationship between China and the US into a positive frame. With recent
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
ContinueLook out for our January 2011 GT Briefing, which gives you a single source to find some of the more interesting and important trend forecasts and predictions for 2011. There’s
ContinueThe holiday season, particularly in Western developed economies, is the retail high spot of the year, when sales surge and high-ticket items get bought. For the shoppers it is also
ContinueAs 2011 looms closer, thoughts naturally turn to what lies ahead. What events will we see unfold? Which hopes will be realized and which will be dashed? What new ideas
ContinueA couple of weeks ago, I wrote that the Wikileaks release of US diplomatic cables highlighted that we are living in an age of unprecedented transparency, one where information is
ContinueBut are the streets paved with gold? Interesting research has come out in the last few months focusing on the potential opportunities and influence of emerging and established urban markets.
ContinueBetween them, the top UK high street banks received a staggering 11,000 customer complaints per day in the first half of 2010, according to figures which the banks were forced
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