CNBCMicrosoft Microsoft hits $1 trillion market cap for the first time as stock jumps on earnings beatCNBC - Ari Levy Microsoft shares jumped as much as 5.1% on Thursday, pushing the company past $1 trillion in market value on a better-than-expected earnings …
World News The quest to save the banana from extinctionweforum.org - Stuart Thompson Panama disease, an infection that ravages banana plants, has been sweeping across Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. The impact has been …
Robotics These are the industries most likely to be taken over by robotsweforum.org - Andy Kiersz The fear of robots coming for your job is one of the many challenges confronting 21st-century workers, but the machines aren't ready to take on every …
World Economic ForumWorld News The next gig economy will be on-demand knowledgeweforum.org - Peggy Choi In a world with an overwhelming amount of information available, it is sometimes not easy to figure out how to apply it. Business models based on …
World Economic ForumHydrogen Hydrogen power is here to stay. How do we convince the public that it’s safe?weforum.org - Bart Kolodziejczyk A decade ago, hydrogen was heralded as an emerging clean energy source. But despite extensive promotion and governmental support from world leaders, …
ReutersCommerzbank Deutsche-Commerzbank merger collapse just delays sector revamp: UBS CEOReuters - Reuters EditorialFILE PHOTO: Chief Executive Officer of UBS Sergio Ermotti attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann ZURICH (Reuters) - Consolidation
World Economic ForumBasic Income This Californian city has just launched a basic income trialweforum.org - Dan Robitzski New pilot Stockton, California, recently started an experimental basic income program. The concept is simple: 130 residents will receive monthly …
World Economic ForumWorld News How electrification can supercharge the energy transitionweforum.org - Davide Puglielli No matter which country you’re in, the energy transition is underway. It is taking slightly different shapes and may progress from different starting …
World Economic ForumThe Who This is how much screen time under-5s should have, according to the WHOweforum.org - Stephanie Nebehay Young children should not spend more than an hour a day watching television and videos or playing computer games and infants less than one year old …
World Economic ForumWorld News 3 ways blockchain can revolutionize global supply chainsweforum.org - Nadia Hewett Farm to table. Fair trade. Ethically sourced. These recent trends are evidence of consumers demanding to know more about the products they’re buying …
World Economic ForumWorld News Everything you thought you knew about sticking to deadlines might be wrongweforum.org - Gabe Cherry New research on project management finds that embracing uncertainty around deadlines can lead to greater success. The work offers a way to peek under …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWorld Economy From Funding to Financing: Transforming SDG finance for country success | World Economic Forumweforum.org - www.weforum.org The gap in investment needed to finance the Sustainable Development Goals is estimated at $2.5 trillion. Achieving the SDGs will require a shift from …
World Economic ForumWorld News Quiz: How much sleep, play and screen time does your child need?weforum.org - Henry Taylor New guidelines from the World Health Organization warn against too much screen time for babies and toddlers if they are to grow up healthy. Children …
World Economic ForumPlay buttonSustainable Fashion How young people are shaping the future of sustainable fashionweforum.org - Kirsten Salyer Young people around the world are working to clean up a dirty fashion industry. The $2 trillion industry is responsible for 10% of the global carbon …
World Economic ForumFinland Finland and Uganda are the world's fittest countriesweforum.org - Hilary Brueck Some of the world's fittest people have homes on the Equator, while others chill in "Santa Claus Village" near the North Pole. The World Health …
World Economic ForumPlay buttonWorld News These vending machines are giving out free short stories to London commutersweforum.org - Kate Whiting Once upon a time, in one of the busiest parts of one of the busiest cities in the world, the people were so busy, they didn’t have time to finish …
World Economic ForumDNS Why global collaboration is needed to protect against a new generation of cyber threatsweforum.org - Amy Jordan The internet is a vastly complicated patchwork of protocols, data and codes, which only a limited number of true tech geeks really understand. And …
World Economic ForumTransparency Transparency is key to inclusive employment and government integrityweforum.org - Silvia Moschini Digital transformation, or more precisely The Fourth Industrial Revolution, has inspired tremendous advances in business and government, and has …
World Economic ForumUNICEF More than 20 million children a year miss out on the measles vaccine around the worldweforum.org - Kate Kelland More than 20 million children a year missed out on measles vaccines across the world in the past eight years, laying a path of exposure to a virus …
World Economic ForumPlay buttonMalaria World Malaria Day: 7 things to know about the deadly diseaseweforum.org - Charlotte Edmond Malaria has plagued humankind throughout history. Malarial DNA was discovered in Eyptian mummy tissues from 4,000 years ago and in amber from as far …
World Economic ForumWorld News What school finances tell us about intergenerational mobilityweforum.org - Barbara Biasi Rates of intergenerational mobility vary widely across the US. This column investigates the effects of reducing differences in revenues and …
World News This is the environmental catastrophe you’ve probably never heard ofweforum.org - Kate Whiting Cities are, quite literally, built on sand. As global urbanization continues apace, the demand for concrete (and the sand that goes into it) …
Matador Networkadded this to All StoriesTrains ‘Flight shame’ is causing Swedes to ditch air travel for trainsmatadornetwork.com - Eben Diskin We all know that flying is terrible for the environment, but very few of us actually choose to travel differently and reduce our carbon footprint — …
World Economic ForumWorld News What can this 17th century philosopher teach us about tolerance?weforum.org - Matthew Sharpe It is telling that the greatest early modern philosophical defender of tolerance was a refugee. Pierre Bayle, a Protestant, fled his native France in …
World Economic ForumWorld News This is what great leadership looks like in the digital ageweforum.org - Apoorve Dubey Digital leadership is about empowering others to lead and creating self-organized teams that optimise their day-to-day operations. Leadership is no …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWashington D.C. From DC to London, Asya Igmen ’17 works as a health care research analystbrown.edu - watson.brown.edu Since graduating, Asya Igmen ’17 has worked at the intersection of the private and public sector, primarily focusing on health and gender issues. She …
World Economic ForumWorld News The modern workplace is hopelessly distracting. And it's costing us time and moneyweforum.org - Brian Solis Many of us are doing real work six or even five hours each day, while spending eight-plus hours “at work”, without realising the loss of time spent …
World Economic ForumWorld News These 3 countries are global offshore wind powerhousesweforum.org - Douglas Broom Offshore wind energy is one of the world’s most underused resources, with less than one-tenth of wind power based offshore. But the Global Wind …
Bank of Canada Bank of Canada holds interest rate, drops growth forecast for 2019bnnbloomberg.ca - www.bnnbloomberg.ca
World Economic ForumPlay buttonWorld News Pacific island cities call for a rethink of climate resilience for the most vulnerableweforum.org - Alexei Trundle The impacts of climate change are already being felt across the Pacific, considered to be one of the world’s most-at-risk regions. Small island …
