Every year Fast Company ranks cities across the globe along 9 categories: Creative-class Meccas, Green Leaders, Culture Centres, Global Villages, High-Tech Spots, Unexpected Oases, R&D Clusters, Urban Innovators, and Startup Hubs. This year’s list can be found here.
Surprisingly European cities are underexposed and so called “emerging economies” are represented well across all categories. In my opinion the list of high-tech spots is quite surprising.
Additionally, as the author Andrew Park points out “You’re smart, young, newly graduated from a university with the whole world before you. You could settle in a small town with well-tended lawns, pancake suppers, and life on a human scale. Or you could truck it to the big city, with all its din and dog-eat-dog lunacy. Your choice?”
Exactly this choice is occupying my mind lately as I will graduate in one month! Shall I move to one of the Creative-class Meccas, Startup hubs, Global Villages or start off my working career in a more familiar sphere?
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Ranked upon holdings of tier-one capital, Bank of America is the biggest bank these days, according research conducted by The Banker Magazine. Surprisingly to this year’s list is that two Chinese banks made it in the top 10.
The almighty Google seems to beat competitors in search everywhere around the world. However the world’s largest and most prominent search engine is not getting its feet’s into the most wired country in the world, South-Korea.
Naver.com is the undisputed leader in search in the country with a market share of 77%. Daum.net another local player handles 11%, Yahoo 5% and Google handles only a merit 1.7% of all search queries.
Google produces search results from existing information in comparison, naver.com works slightly different. Basically it’s a combination of Wikipedia, Yahoo’s portal, Answers.com, and Google. Koreans not only demand information, they prefer a sense of community feeling and the kind of human interaction provided by Naver’s “Knowledge iN” real-time question-and-answer platform.
Upon introducing a new type of Google search engine in South-Korea, Eric E. Schmidt, the chairman of Google states “It’s obvious to me that Korea is a great laboratory of the digital age”.
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