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Harvard has long been accused of maintaining “dirty” investments tainted by their ties to the genocide in Darfur. Now, a private equity fund that counts the University as a major investor has pledged $500 million toward a “cleaner” objective...
...Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build a broadband wireless business for the last 10 years, and when wi-fi came around four years ago," says Polk--whose varied experience includes running the Latin American unit of Global Wireless holdings, a company backed by investor George Soros--"[wi-fi] looked like it would...
Land, who is 43 and plays classical guitar, founded the company with six partners in 2001. One subsequent investor turned customer is SAP, the global leader in enterprise software. Its systems run such processes as internal accounting, customer management and manufacturing. The company's Netweaver integrates them using Internet technology through point-and-click commands on a computer screen...
...stage of development. A fundamentals-driven economy like Egypt or Bolivia is judged more on basic requirements such as the reliability of police services and electricity supply; an efficiency-driven economy like Brazil or Latvia is gauged more by measures such as Internet access in schools and strength of investor protection; and an innovation-driven economy like France or South Korea sees more weight put on more sophisticated issues such as company R&D spending and marketing...
...locals remain on a waiting list, in part because of start-up problems with Prospect Street Broadband, a venture firm selected to handle Zplug's day-to-day operations, and in part because utility workers are still installing the network. City officials expect to name a new investor sometime...