HTC and Beats are taking on Spotify and iTunes to boost their sales. Their new collaboration is rolling out a new line of smartphones and tablets with Beats audio features and a music streaming service. HTC has invested $300 million in Beats Electronics. This has resulted in beats getting a heavy load of Android smartphones. HTC and Beats are now looking to develop a music service that may challenge the likes of Apple’s iTunes and Spotify.

Everyone nowadays is obsessed with tabloid journalism and reality television. At the same time, everyone is worried about individual privacy. Questions of privacy and security are nothing new for Facebook users. Actually, concern over these topics is being regularly raised by users as well as critics. The Federal Trade Commission is also looking into how Facebook handles your private data. But Facebook is a big fish. Today, there are thousands of smaller fish in the form of Apps for smartphones which are dealing with the same kind of access to your data that Facebook has and with far less scrutiny.

People have been looking for a substitute for gasoline for ages now. Butanol can be an eco-friendly alternative to conventional fuel. Animal faeces can be an economically viable way to produce it. It was stated in a report by Professor Mullin from Tulane University in New Orleans. He has collected manure from many animals for his laboratory.

Reforms are essential in these shock days that we are going through. There is a need to find practical solutions to take capitalism out of its crisis. There are seven challenges involved if there are going to be reforms.

Application for a business school requires planning, research and hard work. An MBA degree continues to be the most recognized one in today’s competitive world. The world’s leading business schools have acknowledged the need to rework their curriculum to focus on development of leaders who believe that business is a lot more than just shareholder value.

The financial streets of Geneva are pretty. There is no dearth of natural beauty in Switzerland’s financial capital. When you drive in the city, you will come across clean streets, manicured gardens and mansions. The cobbled streets in the old town of Geneva give a contrast to the modern architecture of the banking and shopping districts backed by the snow-capped peaks of Mont Saleve and Mont Blanc.