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According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, an arm of the UN, the global food crisis is worsening. In 2009, over 1 billion people were…
Posted by Mike Smith in Hot Money | December 17, 2009 5:48PM | 6 Comments »
I remember going into Leeds in 2004 and receiving disapproving looks from staff at the five dance record shops I used to frequent if I…
Posted by Lanre Bakare in Creative Economy | December 16, 2009 4:36PM | 4 Comments »
In the city hall square in Copenhagen lies Hopenhagen Live, a futuristic village of glass cabins with green-neon trim, showcasing the greentech innovation that will…
Posted by Mike Smith in Green Rush | December 16, 2009 3:13PM | 2 Comments »
The case for putting advertising in video games sells itself. Gaming demands complete attention and active engagement, is targeted at a young demographic with disposable…
Posted by Peter Walsh in Creative Economy | December 15, 2009 5:09PM | 4 Comments »
The trickle-down structure of technology rollout across the world usually reads thus: something starts in Japan or Silicon Valley, blows minds, and makes its way…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 10, 2009 2:51PM | 9 Comments »
If RSS lets you bundle up a personalised fix of your favourite newspaper columnists and bloggers, Livestation’s live news streaming service is an RSS…
Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | December 10, 2009 11:50AM | 4 Comments »
With the recession derailing the bank finance model and with it the vast majority of film funding, filmmakers now have to adapt quickly to get…
Posted by Mike Bennett in Creative Economy | December 9, 2009 4:13PM | 4 Comments »
Environmental and anti-poverty campaigners had hoped that the taxpayer’s majority shareholding in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) would mean the bank, which has styled…
Posted by Saoirse Fitzpatrick in Green Rush | December 9, 2009 3:14PM | 2 Comments »
David Cohn is the founder of Spot.Us, an investigative journalism project based in the San Francisco Bay Area that is innovating a new ‘crowdfunded’ economic…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Tomorrow People | December 8, 2009 12:40PM | 2 Comments »
In a recent YouTube video-review for Samsung’s Android-toting i7500 Galaxy phone there’s a moment that is as portentous as it is jaw-dropping: a Dutch reviewer…
Posted by Phil Rich in Sci-tech | December 7, 2009 1:40PM | 9 Comments »
Chris Anderson’s eyebrows are perhaps his most dominant feature; dark, smudgy lines that cut across a fleshy, bald apricot of a head. For the staff…
Posted by Jack Roberts in Tomorrow People | December 7, 2009 12:57PM | 10 Comments »
In September, having an invite to Wave, Google’s latest milestone product, made you the coolest kid in school (at least among the nerds hanging…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 4, 2009 1:28PM | 7 Comments »