Month: June 2013

The PosEcon team visited another wine fair yesterday at the Hotel Intercontinental that featured white wines.  Thank you to the many bodegas that provided us with the opportunity to try a variety of white wines and talk about their products and… Read More

Germany’s largest solar company, SMA Solar, will be releasing a daytime solar energy cell for use in the evening. This will cut energy bills for many German households. The product is known as a “solar inverter”. The company says “its… Read More

An article from CNN Business discusses Pixel Academy, “an extracurricular tech wonderland for kids in Brooklyn, NY”. At Pixel Academy, kids learn code, how to make special effects, and use 3-D printers. Mike Fischthal, started Pixel this year and has… Read More

An article that can be found at NBC news, talks about a business, called Webvan that failed as a dot-com online grocery store in 2001. This online grocery store was recently bought by Amazon.com and was redesigned and renamed to… Read More

In an article published by CNN, Jerry Nevins explains how he opened his own frozen cocktails bar, Snow & Co. He explains that him and his three partners thought of the idea, but were having trouble with the initial investment.… Read More

Jasmine Whitbread, the head of the charity “Save the Children International” preaches the idea that “wanting to do good” is not enough. She goes on to describe that for the business to be successful, they must be efficient and cannot… Read More

In this article from CNN, German Labor Minister, Ursula von der Leyen, speaks about Germany’s recovery from youth unemployment crisis and how the rest of Europe can follow suit. She explains the need for capital for jobs within small and… Read More

This article is about the legalization of same sex marriage and gay adoption in France. Last week, the first gay marriage was performed in France between the two grooms, Boileau and Autin. The article says that, “the marriage marked a… Read More