Planes are viewed as an obvious source of pollution. The same is not true of the computer industry. Yet the information and communications technology industry – or ICT – is responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as those from planes. Each year, both sectors emit 2% of total CO2 emissions, though [...]

Chinese households will have the third greatest spending power in the world within a decade, leapfrogging their British counterparts. Barclays Wealth and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked China’s total household sector spending power at number seven in 2007. The UK was ranked third. But in a global forecast released today, Barclays and the EIU [...]

Taj Chahal has thrown himself some great birthday bashes. He has rented limos to take his friends to San Francisco. He’s flown to Vegas. This year, for his 29th birthday, Chahal decided to do something a bit different: He hosted a surprise party for 300 total strangers – complete with birthday cake and party favors [...]

  UKpreneur catches up with the busy and successful Mark Mills. If you’re a struggling entrepreneur with an idea but no money, an entrepreneur with a vision but no believers, an entrepreneur who just cannot go on any further then meet Mark Mills and prepare to get INSPIRED! If you missed our last blog on [...]

Max Wallace is stepping out of what he called” semi-retirement” to take on another entrepreneurial executive role. Wallace, one of the best-known serial entrepreneurs in the Triangle’s blossoming life science industry, is stepping down as part-time CEO of startup TheraLogics. His focus as of Aug. 1 will be as CEO of the Accelerate Brain Cancer [...]

  Technology entrepreneur Craig Meek has won European backing for his firm iVistra and is expanding its “visualisation” software used by New Zealand trucking firms into the global transport and security sectors. French firm IDentifie announced yesterday it was making a “significant” though unspecified investment to Meek, who owns 85 per cent of the Parnell [...]

Earlier this year, Simon Rix completed a graduate program in business coaching and earned certification as an ActionCOACH, part of the world’s number one business coaching company. Now, Rix has opened his coaching practice serving clients in New South Wales from an office in the Sydney metropolitan area. As an ActionCOACH, Rix will offer the [...]

Getting a start in the heady world of pop music promotion can be a difficult nut to crack, but that didn’t stop Aaron Kirkhouse, 19, and Alex Darlington, 20, from giving it a shot. At sixth-form college the pair found that they shared a dream to promote music and, before they were old enough to [...]

  From corporate insurance to health and fitness may appear a curious sideways career move, but to Richard Davis, owner and managing director of VirtualGym TV, the two are a perfect mix. Davis, who was responsible for the pension schemes of some major corporate clients, became increasingly aware of the encouragement from government for large [...]

A U.S. millionaire plans to revive a zoo and build an amusement park similar to Disneyland in the capital of war-torn Iraq, investing $500 million in the project, a Syrian newspaper said on Monday. Llewelly Werner, head of a little known Los Angeles-based holding company C3 of private equity investors, has acquired a 50-acre (20-hectare) [...]