May 18, 2012
Has Facebook reinvigorated the IPO market? Here are a few tech companies racing to go public--and what you should know about them.
On Friday, Facebook raised a record-setting $18 billion in its IPO, placing its value at a staggering $104 billion. Not bad for a start-up founded just eight years ago in a 19-year-old's dorm room. While the company's IPO has helped plenty of its...
May 15, 2012
Steve Weathers, president and CEO of Savannah Economic Development Authority, shares five things you need to know about opening a business in the Hostess City of the South.
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May 14, 2012
- Shanan Campanaro reflects on her "Poolside" collection and the art of designing patterns
Using little more than Muji gel ink pens and dash of water, Shanan Campanaro creates highly detailed patterns for bespoke wallpaper, pillows, scarves and more for her design shop...
May 7, 2012
- http://www.nyrsf.com/2012/05/border-closed-network-open-so-reads-the-text-of-an-information-card-handed-out-earlier-this-summer-to-occupants-of-t.html#more "0. Border and Futures ?BORDER CLOSED. NETWORK OPEN.? "So reads the text of an information card handed out earlier this summer to occupants of the twelve lanes of cars backed up two hours and longer to cross the border from Tijuana into metro San Diego. The card was one of hundreds of different future interventions conducted by ...
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Jessica Mindich's company, Jewelry for a Cause, helps take guns off the street by transforming deadly weapons into beautiful jewelry, and nonprofit donations.
When Jessica Mindich launched Jewelry for a Cause five years ago, she never imagined she would end up working with guns. Her Greenwich, Connecticut-based company designs accessories and donates 20 percent...
When it comes to online music, we really are spoilt for choice. So spoilt it can make uncovering new music to match our tastes or finding a track when we don’t know the artist or song title, a hit and miss affair. Engineers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have developed a new approach called “game-powered machine...
May 4, 2012
- Concert performances with deceased stars became much more of a reality last week when Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg used hologram technology to bring Tupac Shakur out on to the stage during their headline slot at the Coachella festival. The Tupac hologram was actually...
May 3, 2012
- The San Diego-based startup that developed an ATM to buy and recycle smartphones, MP3 players and other electronic devices has raised $17 million to roll-out its e-waste kiosks across the U.S.
April 30, 2012
I was a keynote speaker in San Diego last week for the PSCU 2012 Senior Leadership & Member Forum. I was honoured to be following Captain Mark Kelly, NASA astronaut, onto the stage.
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April 11, 2012
- Our interview with Li Daiguo on the band's experimental mix of tradition and ceremony
by Alessandro De Toni
One of the most interesting phenomena to hit Chinese avant-garde music is The Tea Rockers Quintet—a tea ceremony performed by...
