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Chevy Volt: GM’s Chance For A Comeback?

Whatever your feelings on the $50 billion bailout of General Motors, or “Government Motors,” as some have taken to derisively calling it, the end of the day fact is that we’re left having to hope for a major comeback. Our tax dollars, after all, represent a nearly 70 percent share of the “new GM” that [...]

Americanism, Business, Technology

Archbishop Wood’s Newspapers, Digitized

As a high schooler at Archbishop Wood in Warminster, Pa I was involved with the school newspaper, The Viking Voice. I wrote stories, edited copy, learned to digitally paginate using QuarkXPress and eventually served as editor-in-chief during my senior year (2004-5). It was an immensely worthwhile pursuit and the experience I gained in high school [...]

Education, Technology

Business Week: ‘Africa Wants Opportunities, Not Handouts’

I came across a superb article in Business Week today written by Nicholas Donofrio, an executive vice-president for IBM, who does a good job of explaining what African nations need in order to turn themselves around and conquer their almost perpetually decimated economies.
Africa Wants Opportunities, Not Handouts – Anyone looking into the economic future of [...]

Finance, Philanthropy, Technology
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