February 2010 - Posts

• Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:00 AM

  Chinese Labor Shortages Arriving Ahead of Schedule

  Yesterday, Salon's Andrew Leonard ran a post pointing to two other stories from the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times , both talking about labor shortages in China. You know, China, the country with more than 1.3 billion people. The articles Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: demographics, China

• Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:25 PM

  Shameless Plug #455

  Awoke to two good pieces of book-related news. First, Young World Rising is now available for pre-order on Amazon , at a very nice discount. Second, Don Tapscott, best-selling author and expert on next-generation everything, kindly furnished a blurb that Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising

• Friday, February 12, 2010 9:05 AM

  Top 30 Blogs for Young Entrepreneurs

  I'm a little late to the party, but last month, Unstrapp'd compiled this useful list of the top 30 Young Entrepreneur Blogs of 2009. I came across it via Shirley's Zone , the blog of an 18 year-old digital entrepreneur and business pundit from Ghana. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, entrepreneurship

• Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:42 PM

  Is Apple Missing the Boat in India?

  The blog BhatNaturally makes a compelling case that Apple is bungling its best change in a generation to break into the Indian consumer market because of "unforced errors" in launching the iPhone. There's also a useful chart showing the huge projected Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: marketing, India, mobile, emerging markets strategy

• Monday, February 08, 2010 11:56 AM

  One Young World Kicks Off in London

  I'm following the proceedings of the One Young World conference going on in London this week (Twitter: #OYW). An unprecedented gathering of more than a thousand young leaders from around the world, One Young World is hearing from folks like Archbishop Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: events, global netgeneration

• Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:13 AM

  Nigerian Musicians Take a Stand Against Cybercrime

  Cybercrime is so pervasive in Nigeria that the most common form online email scam is known as the Nigerian Con, or 419 (referring to the section of Nigerian penal code that prohibits it). We've all seen them: the notes from bankers, deposed ministers, Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: Africa, public-private partnerships, blended entrepreneurship, cybercrime

• Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:21 PM

  Colombian Innovators Win "World of Solutions" Competition

  I just heard some great news from my friends at DUTO, SA - the Colombian start-up that developed a way for visually-impaired students to read information from computer displays through touch sensitivity. DUTO was just announced as the winner of an innovation Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, Latin America, innovation