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Reuters reports that Portuguese export firms are buzzing with activity despite three years of economic crisis at home. In the words of one footwear designer, Luis Onofre, “It’s a one-way trip. If we stop growing exports, we dig our own grave.” During the depths of Portugal’s crisis in 2012, his firm raised its foreign sales by…
The building of the first Coke bottling plant in China since the Communist revolution, was part of a series of changes that turned the country into one of the biggest and fastest-growing markets in the world. In some ways, China’s market is still the world’s most enticing, with companies like GM and Apple having made fat…
According to the Economist, the business of propelling large passenger jets is at maximum thrust – so much so, that some reckon engine-makers’ revenues could total $1 trillion over the next 20 years. This is precisely why Pratt & Whitney is gearing up for a fight, in hoping a new high-tech engine will restore its former…
The Economist reports: Those pouring money into health-related mobile gadgets and apps believe they can work the miracle of making health care both better and cheaper. From this perspective, happiness is equated to “appiness”, meaning the opportunities created by combining health and technological applications. The promise of technologically-altered healthcare systems could pave the way to…
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Education innovator, Anant Agarwal is pairing online education with face-to-face student-faculty interactions, with the purpose of reshaping the university campus experience. As the head of edX, he makes the case in this significant TED talk that MOOCs still matter — after the hype in 2013 was followed by some disappointing results. Agarwal means that massive open online…
Breaking Down Mass Spectrometry For many of you reading this article, the words mass spectrometry will probably mean nothing. However, in the growing field of healthcare and clinical diagnostics, it is an ever increasing term used in the medical lexicon. Mass Spectrometry is an analytical chemistry technique that has been around commercially since the 1950’s,…
