worldspy - 30.07.12 06:48 Mexico's Sofia Arreola (L) poses alongside her manager after winning the Women's Omnium Points race at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup, a test event for the London 2012 Olympic Games, at the Velodrome in the Olympic Park in London on February 18, 2012. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Now [...] mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 30.07.12 06:48 Are video games and internet porn paving the way for social decline and crisis for our young men? mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 21.07.12 16:00 The company known as Jolla is more than a lifeboat. Former Nokia employees Jussi Hurmola and Marc Dillon have gathered together a team of around 50 employees, raised financing for their first handset, sourced and signed contracts with suppliers, and are putting in place everything else required for a modern smartphone. mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 16.07.12 17:12 The Ukrainian inventors of Enable Talk are working with deaf students at their college to improve the way they communicate with the world around them. mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 14.07.12 18:37 I thought this was a fun story. A Russian hacker was able to work out an exploit to gain access to paid products from Apple's Apps Store without having to pay for them. He then finds out that this doesn't make any money. mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 11.07.12 21:13 In January 2011, Starbucks launched mobile apps on both Android and the iPhone in the U.S. that allowed customers to pay for drinks and baked goods using their smartphones. Today, Starbucks has redesigned the mobile app for Android to now allow customers in Canada and the UK to also pay directly [...] mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 10.07.12 13:12 After a promising summit twelve days ago, negotiations on the euro crisis are now descending into farce. Last night's Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers continued until two o'clock this morning.  The outcome was this one-page statement.  The statement ends as follows: In order to break the vicious circle between [...] mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 03.07.12 22:38 Social Security’s Handbook has 2,728 separate rules governing its benefits.  And it has thousands upon thousands of explanations of those rules in its Program Operating Manual System, called the POMS, which provides guidance on implementing the 2,728 rules. Talk about a user's nightmare! As a young economist, I did a fair [...] mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 03.07.12 00:38 Microsoft just wrote off nearly all of the $6.3 billion it paid for online advertising technology firm aQuantive back in 2007. It's an admission that the purchase, even more expensive at the time than it seems today, hasn't worked out well--and a stark acknowledgment that its online ad business continues to lag the fast growth of Google and a... mehr bei forbes.com

worldspy - 03.07.12 00:38 Apple reportedly reached a settlement over the iPad name in China, with news reports saying the company paid Proview Shenzhen $60 million to end the trademark dispute and allow it to start selling the third generation of the tablet in its fastest-growing market. mehr bei forbes.com