TED TUESDAYS: BONO

U2 frontman and humanitarian Bono during his 2013 TED talk.

When TED founder Chris Anderson approached U2 frontman Bono and asked whether he could condense the past 25 years of anti-poverty campaigning into a 10-minute speech, the singer and humanitarian went one step further, taking the audience back 3 000 years to when human beings first started protesting against inequality and poverty. Read more…

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The mobile messaging explosion

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