Removed from plane for serving wrong nuts to CEO’s daughter

Seoul: Korean Air apologised as it faced a media backlash over the daughter of the airline’s CEO, who had a chief purser ejected from a plane in a furious reaction to being incorrectly served some macadamia nuts. While insisting it was ‘reasonable’ for its executive vice-president Cho Hyun-Ah to have raised a problem with the…

Viagra developer Dr Simon Campbell Knighted!

Dr Simon Campbell  ‘Father of Viagra’,  started and oversaw research on Viagra while working for the drug company Pfizer. Dr Campbell was associated with three new drugs during his 26-year stint at Pfizer, all aimed at treating high blood pressure.The last one turned out to have a valuable side effect because it improved blood flow to…

13.5 million Bitcoins in circulation – but not widely used

Blockstream was given $21 million by leading Silicon Valley investors including Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla  and Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman – who aims to extend Bitcoin’s functionality so it can power much more than just payments. Bitcoin, is a digital currency built upon software that uses cryptographic transactions to prevent counterfeiting without the need…

BOOK REVIEWS: Business of self improvement

  “Think Better: an innovators’ guide to productive thinking” (McGraw Hill, NY), was released in the US in October 2007and now it’s available on Amazon and of course in major bookstores everywhere. There are thousands of books on thinking, creativity or innovation, but very few books provide clear how-to information that can actually help people…