An unclassified report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) indicates Al-Qaeda has issued instructions in its terror magazine “Inspire” on how to set wildfires in the United States. It suggests that using wildfires as a tactic because of its potential for casualties, economic damage, and wide media coverage; and the accompanying psychological effects of fear and […]
Georgian Opposition Politician Attracts Masses at Rally
Bidzina Ivanishvili’s popularity grows as parliamentary election approaches. By Nana Kurashvili Georgian opposition politician Bidzina Ivanishvili attracted tens of thousands of people to a rally supporting his Georgian Dream coalition on May 27, suggesting it may have a serious chance of doing well in the October parliamentary election. The election is seen as […]
CORE ROLES OF A HUMAN RESOURCES EXPERT
The human resources department is one of the most important departments in an organization. Almost all the activities of an organization revolve around the HR department. A Human resource professional must perform a lot of functions and roles in an organization towards the actualization of the corporate goals and objectives of the firm in a […]
Japan: Facebook, Mixi to Face Off in Social Networking Rivalry
Mixi is Japan’s most popular social networking service by a longshot, beating out its competition with over ten million users and taking the lion’s share of the local SNS (social networking sites) market. So big is Mixi that it even plans to take on the Chinese market, not that its founder Kenji Kasahara really needs […]
Facebook: Social Revolution or Stalker’s Paradise?
Nobody can deny that the past few months have seen an explosion in the popularity of social networking sites. Catapulting to the top of the list is Facebook, a self-proclaiming "social utility that connects you with the people around you." It sounds harmless enough, but underneath the fun applications and fun-wall messages lies a networking […]