Dubai, Intellectual Capital & Chinese Startup Hub (Anker)

How to Turn Your Mom’s Savings Into $1 Billion? Ask This Guy

Yang combined his Google money with his mom’s, and with less than $1 million in seed capital he moved from California to Shenzhen, to sells products ranging from smartphone chargers to portable power banks on Amazon.com.

Scientists develop tiny tooth-mounted sensors that can track what you eat

Wireless real-time monitoring could add precision to the linkage between diet and health and communicating wirelessly with a mobile device, can transmit information on glucose, salt and alcohol intake.

Here’s how Dubai transformed from a fishing village to a global real estate hub

The city’s economic growth has been nearly unparalleled over the past two decades. Unlike neighboring emirates, Dubai had a modest supply of oil and knew that diversifying their economy would be vital for future success.

As the Middle East begins looking toward a post-oil economy, Dubai’s success provides an obvious example for other cities in the region to mimic.

How to Effectively Derive Return On Investment (ROI) From US Federal Research Intellectual Capital

A massive amount of intellectual capital gets created every day from $150 billion in annual research funding allocated to federal laboratories and universities in the United States. Unfortunately, most of that intellectual capital never makes it to the market and does not generate any return on investment (ROI).

These Six Chinese Cities Dominate Global Electric-Vehicle Sales

The six Chinese cities that implemented gasoline-car restrictions accounted for 40 percent of the nation’s electric-car sales of 579,000 last year and 21 percent of the world’s EV sales.