Art Brodsky, 06.10.2011
Communications Director, Public Knowledge
The fact that many companies have business relationships with AT&T; should not be seen as an excuse for them to take a position that will hurt millions of consumers while changing the landscape of the wireless business by consolidating control into two companies.
Roy Bahat, 06.06.2011
President, IGN Entertainment
More games have been published on Apple's platforms than any other. They are far and away the most commonly created and downloaded apps, and millions of birds are not happy.
Turnstyle, 06.03.2011
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Tom Doctoroff, 06.02.2011
CEO, JWT North Asia
Luxury goods are a tool for career advancement in China. In the PRC, the key benefit of shower gel is "an energizing shower experience that helps me start the day with a kick."
Russ Belville, 06.02.2011
NORML Outreach Coordinator, host of NORML SHOW LIVE
Is this just a phenomenon among projects managed by geeks? I don't know, but here is my evidence.
Patricia Adams, 05.27.2011
Executive director, Probe International
Microsoft Co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates has a revolutionary new model for foreign aid that, by his own admission, will be an "incredibly effective way to combat hunger and extreme poverty."
Natalie Pace, 05.25.2011
Author, 'You Vs. Wall Street,' CEO and founder, Women's Investment Network, LLC
Here's another side to Microsoft that you might not have heard as much about: the Microsoft commitment to education and empowerment for disadvantaged high school girls living in Kenya.
The Media Consortium, 05.25.2011
Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations
Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion.
Dr. Philip Neches, 05.25.2011
Chairman, Foundation Ventures LLC
Steve Ballmer is paying almost $13 per user. Microsoft would have to sell an additional Xbox machine or Office license to each one of Skype's 663,000,000 users for this deal to make sense.
Pat Yongpradit, 05.25.2011
Innovative Teacher of Computer Science
Imagine that there was something called the Mr./Mrs. Innovative Teacher Pageant. Teachers from all over the U.S. would apply and be flown in to present on their creative uses of technology in class.
Cheryl Arnett, 05.25.2011
First-second grade teacher at Sunset Elementary in Craig, Colorado
The Innovative Education Forum is an amazing opportunity for teachers from those classrooms to come together to share, collaborate, and ultimately influence even more widespread change.
Jonathan Littman, 05.25.2011
Author, Snowball Narrative
Sony first learned its gaming networks had been hacked on April 19. What did the company do? Its leaders went into hiding and three full days passed before it acknowledged that it had shut down its networks.
Matthew Palevsky, 05.25.2011
Former citizen journalism editor at the Huffington Post
The most resonant thoughts at the Guardian's Activate Summit were not specific prescriptions for changing the world, but powerful ways to reframe political, technological and social discourse.
Cheryl Arnett, 05.25.2011
First-second grade teacher at Sunset Elementary in Craig, Colorado
Microsoft Partners in Learning is selecting teachers to showcase their work at the 2011 Innovative Education Forum to be held July 28-29 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.
Akhtar Badshah, 05.25.2011
Senior Director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation
Today's students are at the helm of generating new ideas to solve intractable social problems -- and it's clear that, not even out of school in some cases, they are sparking change.
Akhtar Badshah, 06.14.2011
Senior Director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation
This year's Council on Foundations Conference ended with a session that placed philanthropy on trial. The charge: Philanthropy is not fulfilling its mission of advancing the common good.
Akhtar Badshah, 06.14.2011
Senior Director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation
Corporate social responsibility is a strategic weapon. If you're not doing CSR, then you're not going to be as successful, and you're not truly engaged with all your team members.
Akhtar Badshah, 06.11.2011
Senior Director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation
If you are serious about making a difference I recommend that you focus on what I call the 5 Cs: Conviction, Capability, Capacity, Commitment and Compassion.
Akhtar Badshah, 06.08.2011
Senior Director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation
We must support and partner up with nonprofits, and bring our skills and resources to bear so we can all help make the lives of the most vulnerable people in our society more bearable.
Rosalind Wiseman, 06.08.2011
Author and Educator
A cyber-bullying PSA presented by the American Bar Association manages to not only be laughably stereotypical, but send the message that suicide is the best revenge against bullies.
Howard Steven Friedman, 06.07.2011
Statistician/Economist for International Organization, Columbia University
There is no reason to believe that moving America's marginal tax rate down from 35% to 30% or even 25% will stimulate growth.