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There's been a lot of chatter recently over what the global financial crisis and impending recession means for the future of globalization. You see, critics have latched onto the recent failures of markets as the perfect argument for why we need to ...

Gadling reader, Jimmy Atkinson sent us a link to a financial tip sheet guide, "27 Personal Finance Tips for Overseas Travel." Whenever my husband and I have traveled or lived overseas, there are always the questions of how much cash to bring, when to ...

Anyone following the travel news knows the airlines are in trouble. Well, it appears some airlines may be in more trouble than expected. British Airways announced that in the first half of its 2009 financial year it suffered a loss of £292 ...

The idea of traveling for a purpose or to make a difference has been in my mind for a while now. Unfortunately, I haven't acted upon it yet, but my research and interest continues. Today I came across a company called Global Exchange Reality Tours. ...

It's been a tough year for Iceland. Thanks to foreign money, crazy lending and borrowing practices and a real estate bubble that amazed the world as it grew and when it popped, the small northern country has suffered severely through the global ...

Hidden far away in the North Atlantic, Iceland may seem like one of the last outposts for globalization to reach. One economist stressed that a century ago, Iceland was essentially Ghana in terms of economic development. And even as late as the ...

Step aside, Australia: travelers now prefer the United States. A report by consulting firm FutureBrand shows that the United States' Country Brand Index topped Australia, which usually has the top spot. The survey collects the thoughts of around ...

We're halfway through November. For those of you living in the northern hemisphere, if you haven't felt winter yet, you will soon! Here in Hawaii, winter is rainier but the waves are bigger and better. I guess that goes for most parts of the world: ...

Google is taking Iraq's national museum global. Company CEO, Eric Schmidt, said Tuesday that Google is going to document what's in the museum and will share photographs of the war-torn countries museum holdings with the world. The museum, which ...

BRITISH AIRWAYS AND IBERIA AGREE MOU FOR PROPOSED MERGER OF EQUALS British Airways' and Iberia's boards have today agreed a binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) setting out the basis for a proposed merger of the two companies to create a ...

As the financial brainiacs of the world slowly start to see some gradual improvement in the global economy, the worlds airlines are pushing through some far reaching changes to their Q4 2009 schedules. Because the recession hit the airlines so ...

I'm not sure if everybody wants to live in Norway, but it's certainly at the top of the global list. The United Nations Development Program determined this based on data GDP, education and life expectancy – among other metrics – to find ...

A pretty cool new service that should help, if in just a small way, to make us better informed about the rest of the world. According to this TV Squad post, Jump TV, an online subscription service, will allows media fanatics to have channels ...

The site Global Voices Online has go a lot of pretty informative stuff in their series of blogs. Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens' media project, that was sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law ...

Bush's nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to lead the World Bank has attracted a lot of criticism from people who don't believe the architect of the Iraq War has the chops or compassion to lead the global institution. But according to Reuters, ...