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"Think big." That is the motto most successful investors live by. But sometimes, big ideas and big investment returns come in small packages. In this article, you will learn how you can find and evaluate a winner in the  micro-cap market . A publicly traded company in the United States that has a market capitalization between approximately $50 million and $300 million. Micro-cap companies have greater market capitalization than nano caps, and less than small, mid, large and mega-cap corporations. Companies with larger market capitalization do not automatically have stock prices that are higher than those companies with smaller market capitalizations. Generally, the larger the market capitalization, the less risky the investment and smaller the potential returns. The smaller the market capitalization, the riskier the investment and the greater the potential returns. Companies with less than $50 million in market capitalization are frequently referred to as nano caps. Both n...

They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like “I, Robot” and the television show “Knight Rider.” Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the U.S., California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: What happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and trucks — jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaught of technology? “All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years,” predicts Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. “Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy.” If automation can unseat bus drivers, urban deliverymen, long-haul truckers, even cabbies, is any job safe? Vardi poses an equally scary question: “Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren’t working?” ___ EDITO...

China is the Michael Jordan of emerging economies. Just as every up-and-coming basketball hopeful wanted to “be like Mike,” every up-and-coming poor nation wants to “be like China.” And why not? China has boasted an incredible record of alleviating poverty, building industry, creating jobs, and translating economic power into political power. The rise of China has made the West doubt the continued validity of its cherished principles of democratic, fee-market capitalism. Instead, some believe that China’s state-heavy, semi-market economy — or “state capitalism” — is better suited to the demands of the modern world. The old “Washington Consensus,” based on a devotion to free markets and free enterprise, is being replaced by the “Beijing Consensus.” But is China’s Beijing Consensus really the winning formula for poor nations? Larry Summers, Obama’s assistant on economic policy, raised the idea in a recent speech that India’s political-economic model, which he labeled the “Mumbai Consen...

When talking about moving away from a carbon-based economy, one of the biggest arguments you hear is that folks rely on fossil fuels for their livelihoods. Those people are right. Oil and coal production employ quite a lot of people! From the mining or drilling and refining operations and all of the surrounding businesses that support those efforts to folks running gas stations and working at coal plants – we’re talking about a lot of jobs. The thing you don’t hear as much about is that a new, green economy is going need workers, too. I think a big pitfall of the fossil fuel jobs argument is that it seems to assume that we’re going to quit oil and coal tomorrow, which just isn’t feasible at all. The shift to a green economy is going to take time. Workers need training, and there is a lot of infrastructure that needs updating. All of that means green jobs ! Green Energy could power major job growth Just like producing fossil fuel-based energy, the green energy sector needs workers now ...

With a new crop of Internet IPOs including household names like Groupon – and possibly Facebook – set to trade publicly at enormous valuations, many pundits are starting to make comparisons to the heady days we saw at the turn of the century. Will investors’ interest in these social media startups usher in a new bull market or are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of 1999-2000 with a new tech bubble? It seems as though overvalued Internet stocks are a bit like horror movies for investors… they’re always followed by a sequel. At least that’s what those in the “Bubble 2.0” crowd think. The belief here is that the same sequence of events that fueled the first dot com bubble is reoccurring now; that the new class of Internet IPOs, from Linkedin, Pandora and Zillow plus the upcoming Groupon and Zynga offerings, and the massive $100 billion valuation of Facebook, are stirring a mania that will result in a market crash like the horror story of 2000-2002. But before we paint the current market...

Part1: Looking Glass Concept This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot. Part2: Future of Mobile Internet Search: Applications Many applications like these will be developed that have never been possible.Indoor guide Works in a building, airport, station, hospital, etc. Automatic simultaneous translation Search keyword Helpful when you want to find out a word from a lot of text Part3: Look at What You Don’t See Through Glass You can even see flowers that are not actually blooming. There are a lot more ideas drawn in my Moleskine, so I’ll introduce them later. Also visit other posts of this gadget. ...

What will we be making shoes out of in 2080? And will our clothes come from fruit? One college course studies exactly that. Biolace … the strawberry plant that could grow lace from its roots. Photograph: Carole Collet "We tend to work in the year 2050," says  Carole Collet , who founded the Textile Futures  course at  Central Saint Martins  10 years ago. "But for some students, that's not enough – they prefer to speculate up to 2080 and beyond." Sitting in the cafe at the college's new King's Cross campus, it seems that all Collet and her colleague, course leader Caroline Till, are missing is a crystal ball. The work they and their students have been quietly pursuing for the last decade focuses on futuristic scenarios that many would find hard to comprehend – let alone relate to the conventional understanding of the word "textiles". Last year one student,  Shamees Aden , investigated the emerging science  of  protocells , experime...