Davos: Elite Meet or Delete?
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The next best thing to an invitation to the World Economic Forum in Davos is an invitation to one of its posh cocktail parties. Alorie Gilbert reports from Davos, Switzerland. In more news from Davos, YouTube says it'll pay for content.
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Bill Gates call at Davos for a new way of thinking among businesses has elicited a wide range of commentary.
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A one-day summit, co-hosted by Visa and the Harvard Business School and drawing players from all corners of the electronic payments industry, hopes to tackle controversial topics such as data theft and disclosure laws. Can participants at the "Maintaining Trust in Payments Summit" avoid the blame game?
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Viewpoint: Global leaders still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda
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The Group of Seven industrialized nations invited top Chinese economic officials to a dinner last Friday. It was about time that China was invited to a G-7 meeting.
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The mood of Davos in the economics sphere was one of grim determination. Grim because the people who should know are most sure the credit market crisis stalking the world is far from over. Determination because financial company leaders, central bankers and finance ministers are focused on doing what is needed to sort out the mess.
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Eason Jordan, a senior executive at CNN, resigned on Friday night, citing a tempest he touched off during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Switzerland is famous for its neutrality. It sat out both world wars. It's a refuge for international finance.
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Now after a few days at Davos our correspondents, Robert Scoble and Mike Arrington, are starting to get into the groove. I'm sure much has changed there since I went, in 2000, but I can tell that some important things haven't. For a first time Davoser, the most important thing is to build your network. Until you have a way to share the experience, you're not really there yet. At first it's all about being star-struck. Look there's Henry Kissinger (in my year it was Madeline Allbright). And there's Yassir Arafat (he's dead now). Shimon Peres was there in 2000, but now he's back in power. As was the king of Jordan, but he was very young, now like me, he has more gray hair.  My year was the year of "How Do You Make Money on the Internet." So that's what I wrote about. And it was also the valedictory year for Bill Clinton. His struggles were behind him, he could now look forward to one more year in office and then a lifetime as a former President. John McCain had won New Hampshire while Davos was on, and the nastiness in South Carolina was about to start.  You could tell that Clinton had the weight off his shoulders. He still had Air Force One for a year, he could become a statesman, and he was doing a great job of it. Jet-lagged and with no American TV cameras recording the speech he said "Find a shared vision," his formula for finding peace in the Middle East. I was inspired. He can be a great speaker, almost as great as Barack Obama. I tried to take his message to Bill Gates and Steve Case, both whom are off the tech stage now, replaced by Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg. FASV is still the challenge. Seems BillC could use a dose of his own advice. Amazing that the Democrats can't find a shared vision. I always thought Clinton was a phony, I gave him the benefit of the doubt in Davos in 2000. He didn't deserve it, he's proving in 2008. When Scoble and Arrington come home let's hope they can help us find a shared vision. The great thing about Davos, imho, is the elevation and the clean mountain air can improve your vision, and inspire you to great heights. The trick is to bring that home with you, hold it and nurture it, and build something from it. I think the great leaders on stage don't get that feeling as much as the newbies do. You only go to your first Davos once, Mike and Robert, let it work its magic on you.
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QUESTION: Good morning. Sir, does it bother you that there's a perception out there that your administration has been one that favors big business and wealthy individuals? And what can you do to overcome that, sir?
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DAVOS, Switzerland -- More than 2,000 of the world's rich and powerful decamped from this luxurious ski resort yesterday after five days of talks on how to improve the world, particularly by ending poverty, fighting disease, and bringing peace to the Middle East and elsewhere.
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DAVOS, Jan 27 (IPS) - International Monetary Fund managing director  Dominique Strauss-Kahn has proposed a global fiscal stimulus to  prevent economic contagion from the worsening housing and credit  market crisis in the United States.
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The recent turbulence that has rocked Wall Street and financial markets around the world will be the No. 1 topic when officials from the richest countries gather later this week.
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Proposals for tax on engineers, compulsory arts degrees The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has this month brought out its World Economic Outlook for 2007, and the various heavyweights of financial news have all had their bash at reporting on it. Normally, no vulture would stir on his/her perch over this type of thing - unless, perhaps, Paris Hilton had been implicated in some kind of major economic upthrust - but in this case, the economists make some rather startling pronouncements about technology.â¦
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Recession worries dominate the debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos after the Fed's rate cut.
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Avalanching global markets were expected to come crashing onto the agenda in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week as world leaders and big business names gathered for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
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Here's a problem that some investment dollars help solve. Apparently, the TechCrunch 40 conference isn't streaming to the outside world because the Palace Hotel has incredibly lame networking, and they won't allow conference promoters to bring in more wires? This is what I hear, although it's not confirmed. Emails to the conference promoters yesterday were not responded to.  I've also received emails from a number of companies announcing products at the show who want coverage on Scripting News, so my interest is not entirely idle.  So what does it take to establish one hotel in SF as the default tech conference hotel? Networking! Geez, you'd think it's obvious by now. We do things that require networks. Look in any conference room around the world for a clue. And supposedly San Francisco is the central node in the network of technology bringing all this great stuff to the rest of the world. So where is the hotel that gives us the very most basic technology to wire up conferences so that the whole world can participate?  Do we need to move the tech industry to another city? Someone please ask the Mayor or Google or someone in charge when they're going to fix this problem. It should have been solved in 1997, and it's already 2007.  BTW, here's a clue: there are some great business opportunities, beyond conferences, for the first physical location in downtown SF to solve this problem. Just ask Loic.