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The Women's Leadership Fund, started by Zurich-based Naissance Capital, hopes to invest up to $2bn and take activist positions in companies with few or no women in executive or board roles

Ni Suphavong of Eagan-based Jade Logistics hopes contributions will benefit the community while revving up the growth of her freight management services company.

Though a host of fairly new exchange-traded products based on commodities are available, the only ETFs backed by physical commodities are in precious metals

A majority stake of the Spanish-based agency has been acquired by Hestiun (http://www.hestiun.com), a Switzerland-based multinational diversified investment group. The remainder isread more

The scruffy haired, unshaven, pajama-clad home business worker is an iconic symbol of the past. Over a decade ago, with the Internet still in its infancy, home businesses based on scams and lowing paying data entry companies; not too many people took home business seriously. Small business magazines and experts featured tips on how you could be more professional by keeping the kids out and the marketplace even had audio recording of office chatter to play while you're on the phone to hide the fact you were at home. Home business has come of age. according to findings by Emergent Research, Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force: There are about 6.6 million home businesses that generate at least 50% of the owner's household income Homepreneur businesses employ over 13 million people 35% of home businesses generate more than $125,000 in revenue; 8% more than $500,000 The small business landscape has changed dramatically with a host of low cost technologies (gMail, Skype, BaseCamp, etc.

A Chandigarh-based editor has emerged as the front runner for nomination to the RS from the informal press quota, though others in the fray havent given up yet. These include an Indore-based owner-editor and another Hyderabad-based owner-editor. Since these nominations are finally expected to be filled up by early next month, a fierce lobbying is underway by rival aspirants.

"Peak oil can be a very tricky topic, the way I talk about it and deal with it at the end of the day is: We need to revolutionize the way we consume and produce energy... We need to really be the leaders in saying: the future for our children and our grandchildren as far as energy consumption and as far as production, it looks like this" with those words Colorado Governor Bill Ritter started his closing speech at the ASPO conference in Denver that took place from 17 to 19 October 2009. Telling our children and grandchildren where they will draw their heat, electricity and liquid fuels from was not a topic of discussion in Denver. Nonetheless, much information was conveyed on the relationship between the economics crisis and the future of oil. ...

Washington (CNSNews.com) - Andrew Revkin, who reports on environmental issues for The New York Times, floated an idea last week for combating global warming: Give carbon credits to couples that limit themselves to having one child. Revkin later told CNSNews.com that he was not endorsing the idea, just trying to provoke some thinking on the topic. Revkin calls it a “thought experiment”. Well, isn’t that special . Around my office, we have a few running jokes. Well, more than a few actually; we have 947 of them, to be precise. One of the all time faves is based on truth: during a brainstorming session, a young professional prefaced his contribution with his remarks by saying, “Now, I’m not ...

Differences over a plan to relocate an american military base on Okinawa appear ever more likely to cloud a landmark visit to Tokyo next month by the US president

Brutal Legend is a mega-salute to all things metal. It's based on the cover art, music and various subgenres from the original era of heavy metal music that was popular in the 1970s through the early '90s.