New World founders small in number
About 14,000 years ago - a few hundred thousand years after our putative modern forebears spread out from Africa - descendants of archaic humans crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America. Several lines of evidence support this model, but that's where the consensus ends and the details are hotly debated. In a paper published in the premier open-access journal PLoS Biology, Jody...Online Kiosks founder Mike Strand uses contest to screen new business plan
From bar codes to video screens, Eau Claire-based entrepreneur A former technology consultant for Delta Technology and Cray Research, Strand took a stride forward in 1988 when he founded , a company based out of his home dea...Leadership insights from co-founder of Yesmail
ilwaukee, Wis. </b...John Bergman, co-founder of Guild Software
John Bergman is the co-founder of Guild Software, a Milwaukee-based startup that runs an online game where thousands of players pilot spaceships around the universe. The company's offices are located in the same Technology Innovation Center that houses many more traditional "meat and potatoes" software companies like <a href=htt...At Berbee, president replaces founder as CEO
The former vice president of sales, Gregory Sliwicki, has been named the new president. Berbee is a privately held IT company with about 630 employees...President and Founder of National Obesity Forum Resigns
Dr. Ian Campbell, General practitioner and founder president of the National Obesity Forum has resigned from his post. Campbell is pioneer // in founding the national anti-obesity program at a time when people were ignorant about the health problems involved with obesity. Campbell’s resignation from the forum has taken many people into surprise, though there was lot of people in the forum agains...Founder of Enron, Ken Lay Passes Away
Colorado: Ken Lay, the founder of Enron, who was admitted at the Aspen Valley Hospital with a massive coronary, passed away, in the early morning due to a heart attack//. The founder and the supposed mastermind behind the Enron scandal had succumbed to his illness just months before his impending sentence on his involvement in the scandal. In May the founder of the Enron Corp. was con...Eye Hospital Founder a Beacon Light for Ophthalmologists: Kalam
The late G Venkataswamy, founder of Madurai-based Aravind Eye hospital, was a 'beacon light' for ophthalmologists and eye care centres across India, President A P J Abdul Kalam said. // The 'new concept' formulated by Venkataswamy in his hospital - curing 30 well off patients and using that money to provide free medical care to 70 poor patients -- had proved to all concerned that it i...Body Shop Founder’s New Project-against Hepatitis
Dame Anita Roddick, 64,-veteran businesswoman and public campaigner, has made known the fact that she is suffering from the chronic// liver disease, Hepatitis C. Dame Anita known worldwide for her company, the Body Shop, which she sold to L’Oreal, says she was infected with the virus in 1971 via infected blood, during the birth of her daughter. The businesswoman who is well...