Tag Archives : Mexico

81% of users search for health on the Internet

81% of users search for health on the Internet

The number of people seeking health advice on the Internet should soar as workers turn the holiday season, but few will check the origin of information, according to an international survey released on Tuesday. A study by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) commissioned by the company Bupa, from the private health sector, showed that [...]
The Largest Solar Powered Boat Sails into Cancun to Raise Awareness About Climate

The Largest Solar Powered Boat Sails into Cancun to Raise Awareness About Climate

The Turanor Planet Solar Catamaran is the largest solar powered sea vessel. The round the world trip it has undertaken has made it the symbol of energy efficiency and sustainable energy. Tûranor aims to break-records and raise awareness of energy efficiency. To draw attention to the matter it sailed into the harbor of Cancun, on the east coast of Mexico, [...]
Gift Guide 2010: The Top Ten Liquor Gifts & Accessories For The Holidays

Gift Guide 2010: The Top Ten Liquor Gifts & Accessories For The Holidays

One of the most joyous times of the year, the holidays season, that commences from Thanksgiving and continues till New Year’s eve is by far one of the few occasion that is celebrated across the globe and leads everyone into the realm of happiness and serenity. The entire season is dotted with relentless shopping sprees with Black Friday as well as [...]
A volcano stadium in Mexico

A volcano stadium in Mexico

The new Chivas stadium, designed by French architects Jean Marie Massaud and Daniel Pouzet, opened its doors officially last month. Located in Guadalajara, Mexico, the stadium has been designed to resemble a volcano erupting. The building has capacity for 45 000 seats and its structure is located in the center of a “park sloping, a rise of grass [...]
Police officers arrest their own bosses in Mexico

Police officers arrest their own bosses in Mexico

About 300 federal police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, arrested on Sunday their own leaders, accused of extortion and protection to organized crime groups. Agents raided the hotel where they were staying four Mexican federal police commanders. The heads were removed by force and violence. The federal police accused his commanders to stop policing the city [...]
World Cup surpasses Obama on Twitter

World Cup surpasses Obama on Twitter

The most famous and popular sports tournament, the FIFA World Cup, reached record access to sports pages and many posts on Twitter, and surpasses the biggest event of the internet until then, the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Until the beginning of World selections, the most popular event of the internet had been Obama’s election as U.S. [...]
Central America Gets A Financial Boost In Healthcare From Bill Gates & Carlos Slim

Central America Gets A Financial Boost In Healthcare From Bill Gates & Carlos Slim

As the saying goes, ‘‘no good deed goes unnoticed’’, it could very well be the reason why both Carlos Slim and Bill Gates keep getting richer day by day. Both, considered to be two of the world’s wealthiest men have been known to be donating generous amounts of money to healthcare concerns across the globe. Now, Mr. Gates and Mr. Slim announced [...]
Yves Behar Unveiled Spectacles For a Good Cause in Mexico

Yves Behar Unveiled Spectacles For a Good Cause in Mexico

Yves Behar designer and founder of Fuseproject is back with his next initiative. Behar has shown wonders before by $100 child’s laptop under “One Laptop Per child” program and $75 tablet version as well. He is futuristic and optimistic about all his technology developed. He has won much awards and appreciation to make him a Star. Behar together [...]
Drug Cartel Wars in Mexico: Worse in 2009

Drug Cartel Wars in Mexico: Worse in 2009

Mexico has been besieged by gigantic drug cartels that have been causing widespread violence in the country. Drug violence in Mexico has been particularly alarming in 2009. It is said that there are two kinds of cartel wars in Mexico: the government of Mexico vs. drug cartels and the various cartels fighting one another. This is for the obvious reason [...]
Paypal is moving to Brazil

Paypal is moving to Brazil

PayPal is the largest “intermediary payment” service in the world. For those who do not know, works like this: you create a PayPal account (usually associated with a credit card) and when you do some shopping online, instead of passing your bank details to any vendor that you may not know, you use PayPal as an intermediary and thus completes [...]