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They had been digging for 12 years, 4 months a year, 18 hours a day. Since 1992, Georgi Kitov and his team have been searching through Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings, a 100-km, heavily forested region in the center of the country. The valley is dotted with ancient burial mounds erected by the Thracians, whose legacy as a pillar of ancient Europe lives on in texts and stories, but whose civilization remains a mystery. Kitov is slowly exploring the necropolis - and making some of the country's most incredible discoveries - in the hopes of adding to historians' limited...
...marketing manager for Unilever Vietnam. "I've been to tiny villages where there is no electricity and no running water indoors, and yet there's Sunsilk and Omo." When rising Third World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October, Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator - a basic computer - for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola recently unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell...
Inspired by Wikipedia, a Silicon Valley start-up called Socialtext has helped set up wikis at a hundred companies, including Nokia and Kodak. Business wikis are being used for project management, mission statements and cross-company collaborations. Instead of e-mailing a vital Word document to your co-workers-and creating confusion about which version is the most up-to-date-you can now literally all be on the same page: as a wiki Web page, the document automatically reflects all changes by team members. Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield claims that accelerates project cycles 25%. "A lot of people...
...five lines of computer code) that you can download for free and use to make a website that can be edited by anyone you like. Need to solve a thorny business problem overnight and all members of your team are in different time zones? Start a wiki. In Silicon Valley, at least, wiki culture has already taken root. "A lot of corporations are using wikis without top management even knowing it," says John Seely Brown, the legendary former chief scientist at Xerox PARC. "It's a bottom-up phenomenon. The CIO may not get it, but the people actually doing...
Accel Partners, based in Silicon Valley, announced that it would invest in the 15-month old company, which currently has nearly three million registered users at over 800 colleges...