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 [...]

National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations comes out with the results of its sixth annual “Destinations Rated” compilation. The scoring was done by an ‘independent panel of 437 experts in fields from historic preservation and sustainable tourism to travel writing and archaeology to assess 133 iconic places around the world.’
The scoring was based on [...]

The long–extending ‘war on drugs’ began in May 1971 when former US President Richard Nixon actually proclaimed a so-called “war on drugs.” Ever since, the US and the Western Hemisphere have not won such a war, with every proclaimed victory ending up a fiasco. In the 1970s and early ’80s, Mexico and Jamaica pummeled marijuana [...]

The social network LinkedIn focused in professionals announced that now has 50 million users in the world.
In a post in the official blog, CEO Jeff Weiner detached the participation of India as one of the reasons for the ascension of the site. In a small period of time, he says, the country almost [...]

Four selections of Europe conquered their vacancy on this Saturday, after the next to the last round of the preliminary rounds for the World Cup of 2010. Denmark, Serbia, Germany and Italy didn’t give chances to their opponents and stamped their respective passports. Of the nine groups, only two will still need to define which [...]

Latin America is rich in oil. It has 132 billion barrels of ‘proven’ reserves. The US sources much of its oil supplies from the region. ‘Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, and Ecuador have significant reserves and strong state involvement in the exploration and production of oil through their nationalized companies Petróleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), Petrobras, Pemex, and [...]

Mexico’s biggest problem is the optimized power of drug cartels and organized crime. No government policy to crack down these groups seemed to have worked to solve the problem.
Mexico recently announced it would decriminalize possession of small quantities of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamines, heroin, and opium if these are for personal use. [...]

Traffic and parking are probably the deciding factors if you want to step out anywhere, be it the cinema, a new circus, a rock concert or even shopping. Most cities in the world move at a snail’s pace thanks to traffic congestion.
They are the new and compelling problems of the 21st century, with hardly any [...]

The vaccine manufactured by Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd. has received approval from the State Food and Drug Administration’s drug registration department in China. The World Health Organization has stated that the results of clinical trials have been encouraging. The WHO had access to test results and has declared that there is no reason to doubt [...]

For at least a generation, millions of families in Mexico survived – sometimes until they prospered – with the money that children, daughters, siblings and sisters sent of the USA.
In 2007, those remittances increased for more of US$ 26 billion  - almost the double of the amount generated a year for the solid section of [...]