From its beginnings in 1843, when The Economist newspaper was founded by a Scottish hat manufacturer to further the cause of free trade, The Economist Group has evolved into a staunchly independent global media and information-services company with intelligent brands for an international audience.
On August 6th 2012, NASA’s staff had legitimate cause for celebration. The Curiosity Rover, the largest and most high-tech rover ever destined for Mars, landed on the planet successfully. While the landing process was understood to be extremely complex, the landing unfolded as planned. The result is that a car-sized robot was able to deliver…
Certainly one of the biggest wars in technology going on right now: Apple versus Samsung. The Economist dives deep into the rivalry between these two giants, and expounds on exactly who is copying who. Apple, the king of originality in a time when digital technology began to boom, versus Samsung – today’s king of smartphones….
The Economist reports on Finland’s role in the Euro Crisis: It has least to gain from a grand bargain to save the euro – and that could prove to become a big problem. As things currently stand around the Finn Red Line, Finland’s finance minister, Jutta Urpilainen, caused a stir when she said that her country…
Any electronic device consists of circuit boards, components and bundles of wire – these are the printed “organs” of the device. Because assembling these items into a product like a phone can be quite a tedious process, new ways of printing electronics in 3D are being developed. Although electronic printing processes such as screen printing, lithography and…
Narconomics = Narcotics + Economics. A term denoted to convey possible management lessons learned from Mexico’s drug lords. For a country with an economy brought to its knees in 2009, it should be surprising to learn that Mexico still houses 11 billionaires. Well, perhaps not too surprising in the light of their thriving drug trade…
Turns out, Europe’s failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs is growing ever more as an additional growth crisis to the already pressing general economic euro crisis. The Economist means that in a country with a culture that’s deeply inhospitable to entrepreneurs, wanting to grow a start-up into a behemoth is quite as counter-cultural as piercings and performance…
