Submitted by PinkLisa
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Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner were together for last night's special NYC screening of New Moon along with their many costars. It looks like they split up for the afterparty, though, with Robert and Kris (Read More)
The Guardian:
British peer Cathy Ashton receives cautious welcome to EU role from international relations experts in China, Russia and IsraelProfessor Feng Zhongping, director of the Institute of European Relations at the Chinese Institute (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Uncertainty over investing in green technologies more dangerous than lack of Copenhagen treaty says Achim Steiner, the head of the UN environment programme Vital business investment in clean technology to tackle climate chang (Read More)
Submitted by stewbagz
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Commodities Rose As The Recovering World Economy Spurred Demand For Raw Materials Sending Gold To A Record And Mining Stocks Higher. Oil Ad
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New York Times:
President Obama and President Hu Jintao said the U.S. and China would work together on climate change, nuclear proliferation and stabilizing the world economy.
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The Guardian:
Price of gold and key commodities also see record surge driven by economic optimismWorld stock markets rose strongly again today to record highs for the year, buoyed by rising optimism about the world economy.The price of go (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The challenge of feeding billions of people as fuel supplies fall is staggering. And yet leaders' heads remain stuck in the sandI don't know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has (Read More)
The Guardian:
Central banks are relaxed about booming asset markets. But with repossessions rising and jobs still scarce, some fear we're heading straight for another bust.The din from the commodity pits on the Chicago exchanges is growing (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Two meticulous assessments of the decline of giant oil companiesWe live in an age of teetering empires, never quite ready to fall, eras not quite ready to end, their final crisis the subject of an ever-expanding literature of (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Economic downturn may cut emissions 9% by 2012 but only delay dangerous climate change by 21 months, say economistsWorld leaders cannot use the global recession as an excuse to delay action on climate change, according to lea (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : James ScottTake Your Company Public: Have Investors Begging To Invest!As the economy worsens and banks continue to crash and the US dollar is losing its place as the world currency American entrepreneurs need alterna (Read More)
Twine | Web 3.0 - Semantic Web items:
"Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence" identifies the most important changes that have happened in our society. The slides introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process (Read More)
The Guardian:
Members of the eurozone were quite right to suspect 'Anglo-Saxon capitalism'It was a somewhat chastened British government which hosted the meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of that new focus of glob (Read More)
BBC News Player | Business:
G20 summit host Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned fellow finance ministers against complacency amid recent signs of recovery in the world economy. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Bank warned that UK banks are still failing to provide enough credit to businesses and households as it held interest rates at 0.5%The Bank of England will expand its programme of money creation by £25bn over the next three m (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Extraordinary measures to remain for 'extended period'• G20 to discuss withdrawal of taxpayer supportThe Federal Reserve tonight reaffirmed its pledge to keep interest rates at their unprecedented low for an "extended perio (Read More)
BBC News Player | Business:
When the BBC Box started on its journey, no one knew just how bad the collapse in global trade would be, as the world economy sunk into recession. (Read More)
Virtual Economy Research Network:
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, an online outlet for virtual worlds -related "think pieces" and scholarly papers, has published its sixth issue, titled Technology, Economy and Standards. Below is my selection of economy r (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
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This is a guest post by Stefan Wolpers. Stefan works as a start-up consultant in Berlin, Germany, and is founder and chairman of Twittwoch e.V., a non-profit organisation that furthers the use of social media in the corporate (Read More)