How viral ads drive music charts
Click to watch video (CNN) – Two videos were unleashed in recent days driven by social media campaigns. Korean rapper PSY released “Gentleman,” his long-awaited follow-up to “Gangnam Style.” More...
View ArticleCould this be RIP to the PC?
Click to watch video (CNN) – Silicon Valley veteran Ivan Nikkhoo gives his take on what the decline in PC sales means for tech sector.
View ArticleWhat exactly is Apple?
Editor's note: Victor Basta is the MD of Magister Advisors, an M&A advisory firm to the technology industry. The firm has worked on 16 transactions since it was founded three years ago, including...
View ArticleIs it VC firm? Is it an Angel fund? No, it's OurCrowd
Click to watch video (CNN) — OurCrowd is an Israeli company trying to change the way start-ups are funded. The company is structured as a hybrid venture capital and crowd-funding platform, allowing...
View ArticleInsect repellent clothes bug mosquitoes
Click to watch video (CNN) - Egyptian scientists say they have developed the first insect repellent material in the region, which has the power to protect people from being bitten by any bug, including...
View ArticleHow education is fighting crime in Mexico
Click to watch video (CNN) – In the impoverished and crime-ridden Mexico City suburb Ciudad Netzahualcoyotl, a pioneering education center is tutoring students through a mix of computer programs and...
View Article‘Cash by phone’ helps Somali businesses
Click to watch video (CNN) - A groundbreaking new initiative is helping small business owners in Somalia link with donors through a mobile phone money transfer system. E-Cash, a program backed by...
View ArticleCamel leather becomes Parisian fashion
Click to watch video (CNN) – A luxury Parisian men’s footwear label plans to start selling bespoke shoes made of camel leather. The shoes, which exclusive label Pierre Corthay will sell from between...
View ArticleFighting bacteria with copper
Click to watch video (CNN) – A hospital in Chile is trying to reduce the threat of infections by using equipment, including bed rails and washbasins, made of copper. A study into effectiveness of...
View ArticleHelping Europe’s ‘lost’ generation find its feet
By Nina dos Santos, CNN A grey day in Brussels provided an apt backdrop for addressing the bleak job prospects facing Europe’s younger generations. With a quarter of their 16 to 25-year-olds out of...
View ArticleIs the Middle East addicted to apps?
Click to watch video (CNN) – In the Middle East, the demand for apps is high - and growing. CNN's Leone Lakhani explores how reliant people in the region are becoming on mobile applications, and what...
View ArticleThe tricky art of valuing a company
Editor's note: Ivan Nikkhoo is managing director at Siemer & Associates, a boutique merchant bank that provides highly targeted M&A, capital raising and financial advisory services to Internet,...
View ArticleIs it VC firm? Is it an Angel fund? No, it's OurCrowd
Click to watch video (CNN) — OurCrowd is an Israeli company trying to change the way start-ups are funded. The company is structured as a hybrid venture capital and crowd-funding platform, allowing...
View ArticleIs it VC firm? Is it an Angel fund? No, it's OurCrowd
Click to watch video (CNN) — OurCrowd is an Israeli company trying to change the way start-ups are funded. The company is structured as a hybrid venture capital and crowd-funding platform, allowing...
View ArticleGoogle's boost to London's start-up scene
Click to watch video Traditionally, Silicon Valley and New York have been the main places for entrepreneurs to launch their businesses. Now, however, other centers are emerging as start-up hotbeds....
View ArticleCritics: No free lunch in India
Click to watch video When it comes to India's food security bill, some say that morally it is the right thing to do while critics say there's no free lunch. The Indian government estimates that food...
View ArticleHyundai to introduce hydrogen-fueled car
Click to watch video South Korean carmarker Hyundai has spent has spent billions of dollars developing hydrogen cell technology in an effort to introduce an auto that runs on gas.
View ArticleDiabetic clinic goes to remote patients
Click to watch video CNN's Mallika Kapur shows us one doctor's solution to treating his diabetic patients living in remote areas of India.
View ArticleThe world's most innovative companies
Click to watch video Bruce Upbin discusses the most innovative companies in the world and the culture needed to foster such innovation.
View ArticleEducation in emerging markets
Click to watch video The development of the private education business in emerging markets as education enterpreises challenge traditional schooling worldwide.
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