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...changer is Microsoft's solution to a fundamental flaw in most mobile platforms. Instead of having to toggle back and forth between separate apps so you can check Facebook or send a tweet, the WP7 team figured out how to aggregate all your social-networking content in a People hub on your Start screen. Likewise, photos from your mobile device, PC and various social networks will be neatly organized within the Pictures hub. In all, WP7 has created six distinct hubs - People, Pictures, Music+Video, Games, Office and the App Store - like Marketplace, which is due to be open...
...real growth engine will probably be its international business, which saw double-digit profit growth last year. Overseas, UPS networks include exclusive ground service throughout Europe. In Asia, it has acquired regional carriers, opened an air hub in Shanghai and broken ground on another in Shenzhen, China. "FedEx and DHL have dominated Asia so far," says David Ross, an analyst for Stifel Nicolaus. "But FedEx isn't as strong in Europe, and DHL doesn't do the U.S. UPS doesn't have those gaps...
...highest per capita incomes in the world. That wealth has allowed Qatar's rulers to chart a pragmatic and flexible foreign policy that has them making friendly with Iran and Syria while hosting American military forces. Now the country wants to become a regional cultural and media hub. Last year Qatar hosted a version of the Tribeca Film Festival, while private investors put together a $200 million fund to jump-start the local film industry. While there have been some cutbacks on salaries and benefits at state-run news network al-Jazeera, according to disgruntled employees, the operation continues...
Kuwait may be less conservative than Saudi Arabia, but its ban on alcohol is also a major stumbling block to becoming a tourism and professional services hub. Bahrain - another of Dubai's challengers in financial services - has a thriving banking industry and the most ethnically and religiously diverse local population in the gulf. But its tolerant feel is threatened by tensions between the élite Sunni minority and the less powerful Shi'ite majority, as well as Islamist political parties that have benefited from the kingdom's tentative experiments with democratic elections. (See 10 Things to Do in Dubai...
That’s right, this lovely island in the North Atlantic may become the investigative journalism hub of the world...