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MySpace, Wall Street Journal Partner To Send MySpace User To Davos

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

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News Corp cousins MySpace and the Wall Street Journal have partnered in a contest to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum later this mont...

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Win a Trip to Davos

Susan Sawyers | Posted 12.16.2008 | World

Read More: Leadership, President, Switzerland, Francis Collins, Young Global Changemakers, Davos, Bill George, Social Networking, Science, The Davos Debates, Obama, Emma Thompson, Bono, World Economic Forum, Civil Rights, Naomi Campbell, Financial Crisis, World News
Susan Sawyers

The person who submits the best video will be invited, all expenses paid, to attend the annual Davos meeting as a "citizen reporter" and post coverage of the discussions on YouTube.

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Rebooting the Global Agenda: Deep thinkers convene in Dubai to seek solutions to world crises

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Global Agenda Summit, Dubai, Davos, G-20 Summit, Milton Tan, Klaus Schwab, Brian Collins, State of the World, Environment, Sustainability, Financial Crisis, United Arab Emirates, World Economic Forum, Economy, Politics News
J. Carl Ganter

BBC presenter Nik Gowing moderates the closing session of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Summit in Dubai November 9. Photo by Dana Smilli...

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A Gender Perspective on the World Economic Forum at Davos

Laura Liswood | Posted 05.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Contraception, Davos, Title IX, UN World Conference on Women, Suffrage, Literacy Rate, World Economic Forum, Cedaw, Living News
Laura Liswood

What has the world achieved for women in the 20th century? Here is my list; I'd be intrigued if you told me yours.

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A YouTube for Intellectuals?

Ari Melber | Posted 04.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Bigthink, Web 3.0, Youtube, Video, Web 2.0, Participatory Media, Davos, Media News
Ari Melber

Web videos don't have to be vapid, according to the entrepreneurs behind Big Think, the YouTube for the Harvard set.

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Margaret Catley-Carlson: Talking Water at the World Economic Forum

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

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J. Carl Ganter

Margaret Catley-Carlson is chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a working partnership among formed in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Natio...

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John Elkington: Talking Water and SustainAbility at the World Economic Forum

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

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J. Carl Ganter

John Elkington, founder and chief entrepreneur of SustainAbility, the London-based think tank, and co-author, The Power of Unreasonable People: How ...

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Water's Urgent Message at the World Economic Forum

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Margaret Catley-Carlson, John Elkington, Ban-Ki Moon, Davos, Water Crisis, Water, World Economic Forum, Politics News
J. Carl Ganter

Our relationship to water will define our future in this century. But the challenge is not water itself, but the way we perceive it and ourselves.

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Moguls

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Warren Buffett, Davos, Electronic Communication, Sleep, Anti-Oxidants, Blueberries, Moguls, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

The mogul never acts like it's weird to be calling at 3 a.m. They just get lit up about something and because their personal boundary mechanism is out-of-whack, they don't realize it's inappropriate for them to do anything at all, let alone put on their headsets and get cracking in the middle of the night.

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The Road to Davos

Nick Henderson | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living

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Nick Henderson

As the train approached Davosplatz, we had our knees on the seats and heads out the window, shouting 'Guten Tag' to the assorted dignitaries of all flavors who were also converging on the tiny town.

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Dish After Davos: Magic and The Mountains

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Al Gore, Howard Dean, Davos, Dan Quayle, The Magic Mountain, Water Crisis, George Soros, Laura Tyson, Bono, Davos 2008, Wold Economic Forum, Business News
Susan Sawyers

Much like Thomas Mann's main character in The Magic Mountain, written in Davos, I was an "ordinary [wo]man," amongst a sea of world leaders and power brokers. This convergence of knowledge and influence in one place made for some heady observations and encounters.

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World Leaders Call for Collaborative Leadership

Dr. R. Keith Sawyer | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business

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Dr. R. Keith Sawyer

By choosing collaboration for this year's forum theme, Davos is acknowledging that collaboration is also the key to solving the most pressing global issues.

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Lessons from Davos: Gates' Creative Capitalism can also Work at Home in the U.S.

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Microcredit, Poverty, Grameen Bank, Davos, Katrina, Globalization, Davos 2008, Hurricane Katrina, Bill Gates, Social Business, Creative Capitalism, Capitalism, Mohammed Yunus, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

What a truly amazing thing it is that we are finally thinking globally, and that true globalization is now understood also as acting locally.

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Dramatic Turnaround: IMF Head Calls For Stimulus Packages

Financial Times | Chris Giles and Gillian Tett | Posted 01.27.2008 | Business

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The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough "to get out of the turmoil we are in", Dominique Straus...

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Earth, Wind & Fire Raises Key Fed Funk Rate

Linda Keenan | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Christopher Hitchens, George Soros, Queen Rania, Davos, Maurice White, Earth, Arianna Huffington, World Economic Forum, Recession, Ben Bernanke, Gordon Brown, Wind & Fire, Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates, Federal Reserve, Funk, Global Market Turmoil, Stock Market, Al Gore, Philip Bailey, Charlie Rose, Tracy Morgan, Satire, Davos 2008, Business News
Linda Keenan

The move was preceded by the triumphantastic sounds of the EWF horn section heard around the rarefied precincts of the World Economic Forum.

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Media Manuvers: Magic Mountain

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business

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Yvette Kantrow

"Will the Fed's move signal a determined effort by policymakers around the world to avoid economic catastrophe?" asked The Independent of London last ...

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A Refugee's Life in the Subprime Mortgage Market

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 01.26.2008 | Business

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

If we have learned anything from James Bond movies, it's that anyone who can build an island out of sand with the best technology in the world is worth keeping an eye on.

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Face-off: Is Gates Right On Creative Capitalism?

CNET News | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told the corporate and governmental bigwigs in attenda...

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Dish From Davos: Digitally Yours

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

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Susan Sawyers

What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

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A Live Report From Davos

Huffington Post | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

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Eric Hippeau, a Managing Partner of venture capital investor SoftBank capital, was recently interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerl...

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Bono Confesses Sins To 'Father' Al Gore

AFP | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Al Gore Bono, Davos, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Al Gore Save Environment, Davos 2008, Climate Change, Al Gore, Bono, Politics News

Having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed Thursday.....

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Davos Does YouTube

AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

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DAVOS, Switzerland — The idea was simple: Job training centers should be as ubiquitous as gas stations, a man called freesouljah said in a video...

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Davos 2008: Bill Gates' Creative Capitalism and Muhammad Yunus' Social Business

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Microloans, Grameen, Microcredit, Poverty, Creating a World Without Poverty, Trickle Down, Davos, Davos 2008, Bill Gates, Social Business, Creative Capitalism, Capitalism, Entrepreneur, Mohammed Yunus, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

That Davos, the meeting place of the wealthy and powerful, should include themes spoken at conferences populated more by NGOs than executives means that the war has indeed been won.

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Gates Calls For "Creative Capitalism" At Davos

Wall Street Journal | Robert A. Guth | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

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Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism. In a speech at the...

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Dish from Davos, Day 1

Susan Sawyers | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business

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Susan Sawyers

The people here, from Al Gore to Bono to H.R.H. the Duke of York, are grand, as are the world's challenges. There's so much going on, so much information to synthesize.

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