Education and Career

For businesses, live events change the very nature of interacting with consumers. While computer screens or envelopes typically safeguard marketers during campaigns, the same is not true at a live event. Rather, brands engage face-to-face with an attendee, which means they need more creative strategies and tools to overcome different...

With all the talk around the Internet of Things (IoT), one has to wonder what all the hype is about. While the aggregate amount of structured data generated by the IoT can reach Exabytes, it is unstructured data such as presentations, collateral, audio/video files, and more that is the real...

A total of 91,000 Chinese millionaires and 61,000 Indian millionaires - migrated out of their countries and settle down overseas in the last 14 years from 2000 - 2014, according to a recent survey jointly conducted by consultancies New World Wealth and LIO Global. France, Italy, Russia, Indonesia, South Africa...

Leadership is produced in our minds, conceived using thought, and is a perspective of our life. Our thoughts are structured using the language we know, and the words we use have meaning. These word constructs create our beliefs and our beliefs fuel our actions. Great leaders have constructed great beliefs...

Many senior executives in the private sector would like to take up a trusteeship or other volunteer roles in the charity and non-profit sectors as a way of enhancing their skills or giving something back to society. A survey last year by Pilotlight, a charity that connects the business and...

The list of the highest-paid Russian celebrities of 2015 is topped by Maria Sharapova.  The tennis superstar Maria Sharapova pulled in USD $29.7 million over the past 12 months, according to the Forbes magazine list. According to the magazine number two on the list, right behind Sharapova, is singer Grigory...

Robert and Philip Ng have managed to retain their spot at the top of the Forbes Singapore 50 wealthiest list. The brothers, who own hotel and mall conglomerate Far East Organisation and Hong Kong's Sino Land, have a combined net worth of USD $8.7 billion. The combined net worth on...

In today’s market, businesses have to work on social media on some level. It’s free advertising of course, and to compete, businesses are going to have to learn to utilize it. This strategy is especially beneficial for those without nationally recognized name for them to coast on. There are quite...

With a combined net worth of $85.7 billion, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates are the world's richest couple, according to a study by private wealth consultancy Wealth-X, a firm that does research and valuations on ultra-high net worth individuals. That’s more than the entire economy...

The on-demand economy has changed everything from the way we shop to the way we work. In her annual Code Conference “State of the Web” presentation, venture capitalist Mary Meeker discussed how mobile technology and changing worker preferences have contributed to the rise of freelance and contingent workers in America....