Who is the entrepreneur most admired by the American adolescents? The answer is Steve Jobs, according to a research conducted by Junior Achievement, organization that guides students on entrepreneurship , finances and professional future. The CEO of Apple gets 35% of the votes, overcoming Oprah Winfrey (25%), the skater Tony Hawk (16%) and the CEO [...]
Billionaires are obviously ambitious, smart, and very, very, very lucky. There are, however, some surprisingly common traits among them. Here are the trends that presented themselves.
The most common professions among the parents of American billionaires were engineer, accountant, and small-business owner – all math-related careers. They have passed on the mathematical prowess to their offspring, [...]
It is almost an internet inside of the internet. Never in the world of the social networks there was something like Facebook. With a growth of 155% in one year, the service crosses one by one the social networks in the world, becoming leader in countries such as Colombia and Australia. The advance of Facebook [...]
Facebook may be the most popular of all social networking sites, especially with a psychologist recently claiming that it can actually help increase users IQ, but the founding of the website was rife with troubled mishaps. The site was created by then Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskowitz.
Ben Mezrich was [...]
One of the biggest and the most cherished social networking websites of all time, Facebook is expected to post over revenues in the amount of billions of dollars over the next five years, due to its ever increasing popularity and the role it has been playing in keeping the world connected, especially in the times [...]
We have heard news about how Google is consistently taking over Microsoft’s monopoly in the Internet and Computer business. With such news coming in, we must expect Bill Gates to be not the riches man in the world anymore. However, Forbes’ 2009 list of the World’s Billionaires lists Bill Gates as the World’s Richest Man [...]
CEO of Facebook, 24 year old Mark Zuckerberg founded this site about five years ago, originally meant to merely serve as an online platform for cool college kids to check each other out. But recently President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft’s new operating system borrows from [...]