Quase não houve um ano em que a União Europeia não se tenha visto a braços com uma crise: a banca, a dívida soberana, a anexação da Crimeia pela Rússia e agora os refugiados. Podemos sempre apontar o dedo a políticos específicos e atribuir a culpa. Mas é altamente improvável que os fracassos em série da UE possam sempre ser explicados como resultantes de acidentes e de maldade.
Member states have committed to lifting 20 million people out of poverty by 2020. But this has been hard to do in a time of economic recession, writes Georges Dassis.
We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz around how wearables will continue to enhance our everyday lives. From steps and calories, to sleep and diet, wearables are starting to show their influence on our personal lives. But what about the business opportunity and benefits to our professional lives
Maybe it’s the pope. Or the freakish year in extreme climate records. It might even be explained by the United Nations climate talks and the bright lights of the presidential election cycle. Whatever the cause, U.S. views on climate change are shifting%u2014fast.
Der Spiegel reported that a lawyer from Würzburg, Chan-Jo Jun, had filed the complaint, in which he levies accusations at three senior national and international Facebook managers. They are accused of not immediately deleting hate messages posted on the social media site.
The OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015, published in July, forecasts that global trade for ICT (Information and Communication Technology) manufacturing and especially services will continue to grow in the coming years. The OECD is particularly highlighting the broadband market, which is still expanding, cloud computing services as well as different kinds of software for enterprises.
The European Commission is worried that as many as 825,000 digital jobs may be unfilled in the EU by 2020 as employees are unable to find workers who possess the right skills. To put the issue on the agenda, the EU Code Week, a grassroot initiative, has been launched, with coding events all across Europe.
The great thing about virality, as the measure of how fast or far a product or service gets shared, is that it’s essentially a by-product%u2014the result of a user’s normal interaction with a product or service. The user simply uses the product as he or she normally would and virality happens as a consequence.
O Facebook vai passar a fornecer Internet a países da África subsariana através de um satélite da operadora francesa Eutelsat, que deverá ser lançado ainda este ano. A rede social está já a colaborar com fornecedores locais para que as populações de zonas remotas possam ter acesso aos seus serviços através do satélite.
They build companies and assemble fortunes. They %u2028run banks, or hope to disrupt them. They shape economies and spread ideas. They manage money and wield the clout that goes with the billions of dollars they invest. The 50 people in our fifth annual Most Influential ranking are a varied group but have in common extraordinary success in their chosen fields.
