Gap's Brave New World
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It's looking to grow through franchising abroad. First stops: Singapore and Malaysia.
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Our urban future, from Third World slums to the virtual Panopticon.
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Netizens often like to compare the settlement of the Internet with that of the American West. The explorers charted new territory, observes product developer Chad Harrington of Zone Labs, a San Francisco-based
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The attacks on New York and Washington stun the world. In the aftermath, technology musters to launch a war on terror.
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What a new venture fund says about the future of the industry.
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Ayaan Hirsi Aliâs brave and inspiring memoir traces her journey from Mogadishu, Somalia, to the Dutch Parliament and beyond and âfrom the world of faith to the world of reason.â
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By Saul Hansell  Mark Zuckerberg is a member of the Google generation, a generation too young to remember all the fortunes lost when the last dot-com boom ended.
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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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Newbie finds the world of "Second Life" to be fantastical, brimming with possibility, and surprisingly like the real world. Images: Scoping out 'Second Life'
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Headquartered in Reading, England, GAP Activity Projects is a nonprofit organization that arranges gap year activities for young people.
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A breakthrough technology is generating hyper growth.
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Gap is launching an online  advertising campaign featuring music by the Raveonettes, Dntel,  Swizz Beatz, the Blakes and Marie Digby in the hopes of  stirring up some viral music video mojo among its younger  customers, Billboard has learned.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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Re "Va. blasting into space race: Rocket will carry hopes of untested East Coast hub" (front page, Dec. 1):  The collision of public and private organizational cultures has the capacity to enable positive results in American innovation.
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By JOHANN HARI  In the black gloop of down-beat news on global warming and Iraq, we sometimes forget that, in at least one respect, we are living through a shimmering moment of progress that should fill us with awe.
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Wearable tech goes mainstream as the Gap introduces jacket with built-in radio.
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Running a media or entertainment company in the 21st century is not for the faint of heart. The change is relentless and the learning curve sharp.