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Crowdsource Your Business, Any Time, Anywhere

GUEST MENTOR, Niel Robertson, CEO of Trada, Boulder, Colo.: For more than five years, I have been deeply involved in […]

The Alibaba phenomenon

From www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573981-chinas-e-commerce-giant-could-generate-enormous-wealthprovided-countrys-rulers-leave-it China’s e-commerce giant could generate enormous wealth—provided the country’s rulers leave it alone ON ITS way to becoming […]

Desalination Seen Booming at 15% a Year as World Water Dries Up

By Matt Craze – Feb 14, 2013 Bloomberg Markets Magazine In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 158,438 residents of […]

Google grows into a venture capital power

By GARETT SLOANE Google is close to becoming the top dog in yet another business sector: venture capital. The search […]

Mobile Money: A Technology Game Changer for Tackling Global Poverty? – VIDEO

By Laurence Chandy, Brookings Institute, Mobile money—the ability to store and transfer money using cell phones—is one of the most […]

Tiger Global Management buys Cobone website as Dubai Internet start-ups attract attention of global capital again

From http://www.arabianmoney.net/private-equity/2013/03/11/tiger-asset-management-buys-cobone-website-as-dubai-internet-start-ups-attract-attention-of-global-capital-again/ Tiger Global Management has aquired the successful Dubai-based global daily deal website Cobone for an undisclosed sum as […]

Brazil’s Richest Family Forging $13 Billion Niobium Dream

By Cristiane Lucchesi and Alex Cuadros, Bloomberg, In 1965, U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur W. Radford persuaded Walther Moreira Salles, a […]

A New Way to Trade Shares in Private Companies

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-06/a-new-way-to-trade-shares-in-private-companies

Nurturing Undiscovered Companies

By Mark Mobius, From Templeton Blog Emerging economies can tend to have higher growth rates and can be more dynamic […]

Fund yield in January 6.4% – Balkan stock markets growth is back

Investment inflows have finally started to flow into region of former Yugoslavia again, resulting in high growth of regional Stock […]