09-11-2014, 05:14 AM
To make sure it’s not sidelined in a potential bonanza, the European Union has created an unprecedented 10-year, 1 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) research fund called the Graphene Flagship. After decades of watching Asia and the U.S. cash in on ideas developed by European scientists, the EU is hoping the graphene fund will catalyze commercial development and encourage young scientists to start companies.
EU Bets a Billion on Fantastic Voyage Exploiting Graphene - Bloomberg
What TI has achieved is a holy grail in technology: a dominant design over which they full control. There is an entire ecosystem that hinges on that design and the switching costs are insurmountable.
Digitopoly | Why is the TI-84 calculator unstoppable?
At nine years of age Bolivian boy Jose Andre Montanho is already developing a fan base, playing gigs around Latin America – showing off skills that are all the more remarkable because he is blind.
After warning on the risk of a temporary sell-off in stocks back in July, Goldman Sachs upgraded its outlook on equities to "overweight" on Monday, expecting a push higher for stocks in both the near- and medium-term.
Goldman Sachs gets bullish again on stocks - Yahoo Finance
Unfortunately, the fear is that this is coming too late and might not be enough. While the ECB plan to buy assets could expand its balance sheet over the coming months, the reality is that this move might just take its size to where it was several months ago. It is true that purchases of certain assets could have a stronger impact than the previous rounds of bank lending, but this might not be enough.
Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy: Whatever it takes to see helicopter Mario (Draghi)
“The Putin goal is federalization in some way creating an autonomous region inside Ukraine that would influence the whole of Ukraine, in a political way, military way, economic way, binding it with Russia and preventing the whole of Ukraine from going very rapidly to the West without consulting with the Kremlin and with Putin," Alexander Baunov, a Russian writer and political commentator, told The New York Times.
Putin's Plan For Ukraine, In One Sentence - Business Insider
Russian President Vladimir Putin must answer this: How can his country, with an economy the size Italy’s, restore the glory it once enjoyed as the Soviet empire?