BusinessWeek Online Innovation & Design March 05, 2009 A weekly guide to innovative people, ideas, and companies
******************** This Week's Top Story Innovations of the Future Economic difficulty can inspire extraordinary innovation. We asked futurists what they'd like to see arise from these difficult times http://newsletters.businessweek.com/c.asp?754105&cf16b2f231665666&1 MORE TOP STORIES Philanthropy and Development in Emerging Markets In The Blue Sweater, Jacqueline Novogratz explains how the most well-intentioned aid efforts often fail, and the slow and steady approach works best http://newsletters.businessweek.com/c.asp?754105&cf16b2f231665666&2 Video: Five Questions For Alberto Alessi Alberto Alessi, managing director of Alessi, discusses how an IBM designer influenced espresso machines and why he thinks northern Italy is a global invention hub http://newsletters.businessweek.com/c.asp?754105&cf16b2f231665666&3 Pushing the Limits of Crowdsourcing Producers of everything from animated films to video games are tapping the power of Facebook and letting the group do the heavy lifting http://newsletters.businessweek.com/c.asp?754105&cf16b2f231665666&4 Streaming Entertainment's Big Moment The likes of Comcast and DirecTV face accelerating competition from ZillionTV, Hulu, and other upstarts eager to provide programming on demand http://newsletters.businessweek.com/c.asp?754105&cf16b2f231665666&5 Emerging Markets: Time to Invest? Major emerging-market indexes outperformed developed market benchmarks in February, but slowing growth could still spell trouble for stocks in these regions http://newsletters.businessweek.com/c.asp?754105&cf16b2f231665666&6 ************************************************************** This newsletter is a FREE service provided by BusinessWeek. To sign up for other newsletters, cancel delivery, change delivery options or change your e-mail address, please go to our Newsletter Preferences page. http://newsletters.businessweek.com/bwn/nf.asp?c=cf16b2f231665666 If you need other assistance, please contact Customer Service http://www.businessweek.com/service.htm or contact: Wanda Cooper BusinessWeek Customer Rights Communications Data Services 1995 G Avenue Red Oak, IA 51566 Phone: 1-800-635-1200 View our corporate privacy policy at http://newsletters.businessweek.com/bwn/mg-privacy.html To learn more about how BusinessWeek applies this policy, you can contact our Marketing Department mailto:[email protected] Terms of Use http://www.businessweek.com/copyrt.htm Privacy Notice http://www.businessweek.com/privacy.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/newsfcv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
