"GE" | Global Economy - Küresel Ekonomi

Everyone knows that the Internet has changed how businesses operate, governments function, and people live. But a new, less visible technological trend is proving just as transformative: big data.

Pope Francis calls on world leaders to reform the global financial system and help the poor, in his first major speech on the financial crisis.

Avustralya'nın Brisbane kentinde yapılacak G-20 zirvesi için Paris'e asılan afişlerde Hollande yerine, Obama ve Merkel'in yanında Başbakan Erdoğan yer aldı.

Avustralya'nın en kalabalık üçüncü şehri olan Brisbane, 15-16 Kasım 2014'te G-20 ülkelerinin devlet ve hükümet başkanlarını ağırlayacak. Zirvenin tanıtımı için Fransa'nın başkenti Paris'e de afişler asıldı.

Afişlerde, ABD Başkanı Barack Obama, Almanya Başbakanı Angela Merkel ve Başbakan Tayyip Erdoğan'ın yer aldığı bir fotoğraf bulunuyor.
Bu fotoğrafa, "Brisbane: Avustralya'nın yeni kozmopolit şehri. G20-2014 zirvesine neden Avusturalya'nın Brisbane kentinin ev sahipliği yaptığını öğrenmek ister misiniz" sözleri eşlik ediyor.

Üç liderin yer aldığı fotoğraf, 2011'de Fransa'da yapılan G-20 zirvesi sırasında çekilmişti. Orijinal fotoğrafta bulunan eski Fransa cumhurbaşkanı Nicolas Sarkozy, seçimleri kaybedince yeni afişten silindi.
Yetkililer yeni cumhurbaşkanı François Hollande'ın da olduğu bir fotoğrafa yer vermek yerine, Paris sokaklarında bu kareyi kullanmayı seçtiler.

Each column is interesting, for instance read down for “Most Compassionate.”  It’s funny how many individuals do the same for themselves, I might add, in what has to be one of the simplest and most common of all intellectual mistakes.

Karnataka votes for a new Assembly today as will six other states later this year. Across the globe there are a number of countries which have, or are going to, elect a new set of lawmakers this year.

Forget Big Brother. Companies and countries are discovering that algorithms programmed to scour vast quantities of data can be much more powerful. They can predict your next purchase, forecast car thefts and maybe even help cure cancer.

"Big data" is the jargon du jour, the tech world's one-size-fits-all (so long as it's triple XL) answer to solving the world's most intractable problems. The term is commonly used to describe the art and science of analyzing massive amounts of information to detect patterns, glean insights, and predict answers to complex questions. It might sound a bit dull, but from stopping terrorists to ending poverty to saving the planet, there's no problem too big for the evangelists of big data.

"The benefits to society will be myriad, as big data becomes part of the solution to pressing global problems like addressing climate change, eradicating disease, and fostering good governance and economic development," crow Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier in modestly titled Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.

Venezuela has been suffering from political polarization, a catastrophic crime rate and unparalleled inflation. Now the Latin-American country has another crisis on its hands: There is no toilet paper. Literally, people cannot find toilet paper in the scarcely populated aisles of Venezuela's grocery stores. The oil-rich country has been suffering from grave shortages in food products such as milk, butter, coffee, cornmeal, and now toilet paper has been added to the long list of hard-to-find simple necessities.

Overview The European Union is the new sick man of Europe. The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now the principal casualty