Archive for the ‘investment’ tag
Dec 18, 2019
$125 Million For Longevity! — George MacGinnis, Healthy Ageing Challenge Director, UKRI — Government Ageing Society Grand Challenge — ideaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, government, health, life extension, neuroscience, posthumanism, science, transhumanism
Mar 9, 2017
Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey — By Amir Amel-Zadeh & George Serafeim
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, ethics, governance
“Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e. not SRI funds) investment organizations we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social and governance (ESG) information.”
Oct 20, 2015
U.S. Plans $6 Billion Investment in Space Situational Awareness
Posted by Laura Samsó in categories: business, military, satellites, science, security, space, surveillance
Aug 14, 2015
Google’s New Alphabetical Order — By Vauhini Vara | The New Yorker
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: big data, business, innovation, internet
“In one sense, Page and Brin are just formalizing an arrangement that has evidently existed at Google for the past several years—the two of them at the helm of a company largely occupied with seeking out new and strange areas of innovation. The bet, it seems, is that this arrangement will improve the chances that Page and Brin’s unconventional investments will pan out—and that, if they don’t, the rest of the company will be better insulated from its founders’ mistakes. Until then, Sundar Pichai can focus on the boring, plodding business of actually making money.”
