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2nd Ecomagination Contest to Reward Innovative Green Ideas With Funding
General Electric is again giving eco-entrepreneurs a chance to take their ideas to the next level. GE's 'Eco-magination' contest is encouraging socially responsible businesses...
New York Start-Ups Ride Tech Boom
The Internet gold rush is spreading east. A decade after the tech bubble burst and brought down Silicon Alley, investors are crowding back into...
College Class Builds Apps — and Fortunes
Stanford students took seriously their homework assignment in 2007: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat.
The students ended up getting millions of...
Gates Foundation Funds Bold Ideas Including Dirt-Charged Cell Phones and Human Waste Fertilizer
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday announced 88 new winners of $100,000 grants to support innovative research that has the potential to dramatically...
Women of Courage Awardees Set Example for the World
On Tuesday, the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to recognize ten remarkable...
International Women’s Day: Three Women Turned Pennies into Empowerment
Today is the 100-year anniversary of the founding of International Women's Day—a day to celebrate the achievements of women worldwide and to rekindle efforts...
17 New Small Business Tax Cuts for 2010
Since January 2009, President Obama and Congress has passed or extended 17 small business tax cuts and credits, including the exclusion of up to...
Trending: 5 Signs That Optimism is the New Black in Business
We can see it every week in the business pages of newspapers and magazines. From manufacturing, to private sector service industries, from venture capital...
President Launches National Wireless Initiative Paid For by Bandwidth Auction
Speaking at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan Thursday, the President proposed a new national wireless initiative in a city where high-speed internet services...
Albanian-American Enterprise Fund to Return $15 Million to American Taxpayers
An original grant of $30 million made by the U.S. Agency for International Development back in 1995 to assist the economic transition in Albania...
Refuge Teaches Women to Make Candles in the Darkness of War
Prosperity Candle provides women living in distressed areas around the world the tools and distribution they need to start their own companies making and...
Good News for Haiti: Two New Factories
Haiti could use some good news, and so on the anniversary of the nation's ruinous earthquake, read about business and government leaders signing a...
Surprise! Women Started More Firms Than Men
Between 2002 and 2007, women created almost twice as many businesses as men, according to data from the Census Bureau -- and they continue...
Business Schools Embracing Do-gooders With Degree Programs
The popular image of students in modern-day business schools dreaming of pinstriped suits and spreadsheets is increasingly being turned on its head. Many students...
She Laid Herself Off to Save her Employees’ Jobs
Like countless small-business owners, Lola Gonzalez agonizingly resolved to trim her firm's nine-person staff when the economic recovery began to sputter last spring.
Unlike other...
‘Yes, We Can’ Attitude Spreading Across Africa
Sir Richard Branson visits Africa often, and recently declared, "It is apparent that a “yes, we can” attitude is spreading across the continent" --...
More Than 5,000 Small Business Loans Approved in First Month After Jobs Bill
Just one month after the President signed the Small Business Jobs Act, the U.S. Small Business Administration has supported nearly $3 billion in loans...
India’s Growing Wealth Boosts Charitable Giving
The Malkani family made a fortune building one of the country's first online travel agencies.
Now, as India's wealth continues to expand, the Malkanis...
A Host of Western States Could Benefit From California’s Push to Use More Renewable Power
On Thursday, California mandated state utilities to increase by 33 percent their use of wind, solar, and other renewables by 2020. And although most...
Once War-Ravaged, Sierra Leone Opens its Breathtaking Beaches to Eco-tourism
Sierra Leone, a country once synonymous with child soldiers and blood diamonds, is now at peace. Communities forced to start over and create jobs...