Imagine being paid to start a business while getting an MBA. That is the concept behind the full-time MBA Entrepreneur Fellow program in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Business Administration. “The goal of the Entrepreneur Fellow program is to recruit the best and brightest MBA students who have an entrepreneurial drive and will [...]
The British government launched an initiative on Tuesday to unlock new investment in low-carbon technologies and make London a global hub for green finance. The launch of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative (CMCI) is being marked by an event at the London Stock Exchange. Policy makers and investment banks such as Deutsche Bank and Morgan [...]
This week, we caught up with Historic Futures, 2009 Green IT Entrepreneurs of the Year. CTO Simon Warrick filled us in on the work they have been doing over the last twelve months. The company was set up 7 years ago with a desire to make businesses more accountable for the materials they use in [...]
With all of the controversy surrounding the oil and gas industry following the now infamous BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill of late, AmeriLithium Corp is focusing its efforts on the emerging green technologies of the world. For example, the company has been particularly invested in the benefits of the continual advances in plug-in and [...]
Networks giant Cisco has reported strong fourth quarter 2010 results, with sales of $10.8bn, an increase of more than 28 per cent compared to Q4 2009. For the company’s Q4 2010 period, which ended 31 July, the company’s net income increased from $1.1bn to $1.9bn, compared to the same period in 2009, representing a rise [...]
Silicon start-up Smooth-Stone has received $48 million from a syndicate of investors including ARM, Texas Instruments, and Highland Capital Ventures. Smooth-Stone’s goal is to bring the virtues of low-power cell phone technology to servers and, as a result, bring down the staggering power consumption at large data centers. Mega data centers can house tens of [...]
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has launched a website showcasing a selection of IT jobs to entice young people into the industry. The launch follows the Royal Society’s recent report, which found that schoolchildren find IT lessons boring, and the subsequent calls from City University’s head of the computing department for industry to play [...]
Publisher Hachette Filipacchi is overhauling its digital strategy for its older-women’s lifestyle glossy title Red, with the launch of a revamped website later this year. The monthly magazine is overhauling its web offering to capitalise on the wealth of its readership, which, according to Hachette, has been mostly ‘unaffected by the recession’. Despite a strong [...]
Orange has launched an online community for social entrepreneurs, charities and developers, designed to generate volunteering ideas for mobile phone users. The concept generates ideas for quick volunteering projects instead of the usual time-demanding activities. For example, users could agree to fill in charity research during a 10-minute commute. Orange will choose the best submitted [...]
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