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Mobile payments have been around in Africa for years, mainly because there's no legacy systems to compete with, and the lack of a solid banking/payment processing industry has made…

And hopefully burdened with less administrative tasks and armed with more data that tracks progress and speed of learning, teachers can act more as a curator of knowledge (and guid…

If programming is now attracting more mainstream interest as you said, I wonder if the pedagogy of disseminating programming knowledge will change. Will the educators (I can't thin…

So movie-making is becoming more geographically and capital diverse, good for us! Note how little Monsters costed (under half a mil), or District 9 in 2009, for that matter. Some c…

It's good to know that quality still sells, and prices aren't everything. Maybe because of Europe's location, I see textiles sourced from places like Turkey and even Latin America,…

I can see how that's very likely, my experience is limited to Western Europe at the moment:) We still see quite a lot of goods in cheaper stores that come from China, but nothing l…

I think Japan's general economic malaise over the past few decades have been off-putting for investors and entrepreneurs that do not look for only a sizable market, but the promise…

It is also out of self interest that Germany pumps money back to the European rescue funds from their trade surplus with these less-than-stellar European economies. It's not altoge…

Another relatively male-dominated field is banking (although probably less so than programming), yet one can argue that there's plenty of drama operating within those concrete towe…

Germany is the number one exporter in the world, that's very true. But I think China is following the Japan/S.Korea/Taiwan model, versus the German route, in the sense that it's tr…

List of talks for entrepreneurs: http://theeducatedentrepreneur.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/10-t...

Europe in general (perhaps with the exception of the UK) is much less saturated with Made in China goods than the rest of the world, perhaps due to more stringent adherence to stan…

Nice to see more than one team rolling with the idea. May be best one emerge victorious.

Most of those excuses mentioned really come down to one of two things: arrogance (I know best so you don't need to know) or laziness (why bother because see former), both of which …