<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Davos: News &amp; Videos about Davos - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Davos</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Davos from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:56:32 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Davos: News &amp; Videos about Davos - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/europe/03/26/turkey.erdogan.profile/tztop.turkey.afp.gi.jpg</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Davos</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Davos from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Turkish PM shows common touch on campaign trail</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/26/turkey.erdogan.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/26/turkey.erdogan.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The yellow bus with a giant photo of the prime minister on its side raced through Elazig, a provincial town in eastern Anatolia, blaring patriotic music.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Web networkers tap into 'pulse' at Davos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/02/01/davos.social.networking/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/02/01/davos.social.networking/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>David Cameron, the leader of the UK's opposition Conservative Party, is discussing whether economic growth should be pursued at the expense of the environment.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Zakaria: Turkish-Israeli leaders' clash reveals passions</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/zakaria.davos/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/zakaria.davos/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands turned out to greet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his return home from Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, a day after a heated exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres over Israel's military campaign in Gaza.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Who needs a big raise? SEC staffers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/30/news/davos.sec.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/30/news/davos.sec.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Here's a simple idea to prevent Wall Street meltdowns from happening again in the future, brought to you courtesy of the World Economic Forum in Davos: Start paying regulators much, much better.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos divided on how to fix Wall Street</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/30/news/international/dumaine_davos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/30/news/international/dumaine_davos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>One of the more repeated comments heard in the after hours chatter in the salons of Davos was that no one from the financial industry has actually apologized for the mess they've created in the global financial system.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Peres, Erdogan in 'amicable talks' after Davos spat</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/davos.erdogan.peres/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/davos.erdogan.peres/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Israeli President Shimon Peres said he had an amicable phone conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a day after Erdogan stormed offstage during an angry exchange with Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dear Davos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/07/davos.deardavos/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/07/davos.deardavos/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>From January 28 to February 1 CNN is broadcasting live and reporting online from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as the world's leading power brokers and moneymakers gather to discuss the state of the world in 2009.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Turkish PM cheered after Davos walkout</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/davos.wef.friday.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/30/davos.wef.friday.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands of people turned out to greet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his return home from Davos Friday, a day after he stormed off stage following a heated exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres over Israel's military campaign in Gaza.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Cap in hand: The top-down approach at Davos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/30/hodson.hats.davos/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/30/hodson.hats.davos/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Royal Ascot it ain't. But here in Davos, a hat is more than something to put on your head; it is a statement -- as much of preparedness as of status.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos delegates gather to 'shape new world'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/27/davos.tuesday.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/27/davos.tuesday.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The head of the World Economic Forum has urged delegates to respond to the global economic crisis by shaping a "new world" as they braved snowstorms, icy roads and subzero temperatures Tuesday to gather for the five-day annual brainstorm in the Swiss Alps.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>At Davos, an upside-down world</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/29/news/economy/davos.upside.down.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/29/news/economy/davos.upside.down.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>At last year's gathering of the world's elite at this Alpine ski resort, the tone was one of unbridled optimism. CEOs, government leaders and heads of NGOs had the luxury to discuss the rapid growth in new technologies, innovation in the financial industry (oops), and ways to combat hunger, disease and global warming. This year's World Economic Forum conjures a radically different zeitgeist.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Putin-Dell slapdown at Davos</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/companies/dell.davos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/companies/dell.davos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Ever since Vladimir Putin rose to power in 2000, his political opponents and entire countries have learned to their cost that he has a tough, demeaning streak. Wednesday it was Michael Dell's turn.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>At Davos, blaming unregulated markets</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/arcelormittal.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/arcelormittal.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>This year's World Economic Forum meeting at Davos is supposed to discuss how to lift the world out of its economic and financial crisis, but not everyone is satisfied just talking about the problems. Aditya Mittal, for one, is trying to take matters into his own hands.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos: Annan warns of 'global governance 'crisis'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/davos/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/davos/index.htm</guid><description>The worldwide economic recession has exposed a "crisis of global governance" that can only be addressed by the radical reform of the United Nations, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday as the World Economic Forum got under way in Switzerland.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Economic crisis dominates Davos agenda</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/22/davos.preview/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/01/22/davos.preview/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Heads of state, influential politicians, business leaders and global power brokers will gather in the Swiss Alps next week for the World Economic Forum -- with the perilous state of the planet's financial system set to top this year's agenda.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. to look at hunger</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/26/un.food/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/26/un.food/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was set to address an international meeting on combating hunger in Madrid on Tuesday, the first such event since the global financial crisis hit hard.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Author Paulo Coelho's profitable Net obsession</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/technology/kirkpatrick_coehlo.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/technology/kirkpatrick_coehlo.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>In 1999, best-selling author Paulo Coelho, who wrote "The Alchemist," was failing in Russia. That year he sold only about 1,000 books, and his Russian publisher dropped him. But after he found another, Coelho took a radical step. On his own Web site, launched in 1996, he posted a digital Russian copy of "The Alchemist."</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos looks to a post-Bush future</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/28/magazines/fortune/kirkpatrick_davos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/28/magazines/fortune/kirkpatrick_davos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>By the final day of this year's World Economic Forum, people were joking that the world had gone through a full economic cycle in the four days the conference had been underway. After a Monday on which global markets seemed in freefall, by Friday the Dow average amazingly showed a tiny gain for the week. Klaus Schwab, the paternalistic overseer of each year's Forum, was proudly talking of a "Davos effect" on world markets.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos elite leaves, fearing dark days</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/27/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/27/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The world will weather its financial storm, but must battle climate change, poverty and conflict to reap a new "industrial revolution," the global business elite said Sunday, trying to dispel pessimism that has hung over a major meeting in Switzerland.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos: CNN video coverage</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/22/davos.video/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/22/davos.video/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Collaborative innovation may have been the theme of this year's event in Davos, but it's the threat of global recession that is the main topic of conversation as the event begins. CNN's Becky Anderson, Charles Hodson and Richard Quest will be bringing you extensive coverage of the event throughout the week. </description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bank: Rogue trader hacked computers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/27/societegenerale.trader/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/27/societegenerale.trader/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The trader accused of making fraudulent transactions that cost Societe Generale &amp;#8364;4.9 billion ($7.2 billion) hacked computers and used "several techniques of fraud," the French banking giant has said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Police quiz accused 'rogue trader'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/26/societegenerale.trader/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/26/societegenerale.trader/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The trader accused of making fraudulent transactions that cost French banking giant Societe Generale &amp;#8364;4.9 billion ($7.2 billion) is being questioned in the case, the French national police said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Economy fears driven home at Davos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/26/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/26/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Global finance chiefs drove home warnings over the market crisis Saturday, as concerns of a possible recession continued to trouble a meeting of world powerbrokers in Switzerland.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Recession-o-meter result: It's a slowdown</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/23/davos.opinions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/23/davos.opinions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>CNN's Recession-o-meter -- our unscientific poll of financial experts at the World Economic Forum at Davos -- has spoken. And it's decided that the world economy is in slowdown, not recession.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Financiers never say 'sorry'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/25/magazines/fortune/gumbel_davossorry.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/25/magazines/fortune/gumbel_davossorry.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>A significant number of the bankers, regulators, credit agencies and other key players whose errors, omissions and greed contributed to the current financial crisis are at the World Economic Forum in Davos - and they all seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bill Gates' new project: Farming</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/25/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/25/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Face Time with Bill Gates</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/24/bill.gates/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/24/bill.gates/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>This week, Bill Gates made his annual pilgrimage to Swiss skiing resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Have your say on the issues at Davos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/24/davos.yoursay/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/24/davos.yoursay/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Economic worries were the main topic of conversation among CEOs and politicians at the start of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos, and it seems to be one of the top issues on your minds, too. </description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>QUOTED: Bono Confesses His Eco-Sins to Al Gore</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173817,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173817,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>&amp;amp;#34;I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying rock star.&amp;amp;#34;</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos: In a nutshell</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/24/davos.quotes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/24/davos.quotes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Every year, the finest minds in the economic world are joined by heads of state, investment gurus and boardroom leaders.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stop whining about sovereign wealth funds</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/magazines/fortune/gumbel_davosSWF.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/magazines/fortune/gumbel_davosSWF.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>They may have ridden to the rescue of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch in the past couple of months, but the rise of so-called sovereign wealth funds - huge state investment vehicles from places like Russia, Kuwait and Singapore with billions of dollars to invest - has sparked a nervous reaction in the U.S. and prompted official calls for the funds to be subject to an international code of conduct.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Davos Doesn't Matter
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1706682,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1706682,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Viewpoint: Global leaders  still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda 
</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>In Davos, Gates calls for 'creative capitalism'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/news/international/kirkpatrick_davos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/news/international/kirkpatrick_davos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>"In many crucial areas, the world is getting better...but it's not getting better fast enough, and it's not getting better for everyone," Bill Gates said in Davos on Thursday as he called for a more concerted global drive toward what he calls "Creative Capitalism." He said that companies, especially the biggest ones, can improve the lot of the world's least privileged by better aligning their self-interest with the good of society.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Answering 'The Davos Question'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/10/davos.question/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/10/davos.question/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>What will be the biggest question asked at Davos this year? The environment, economic development and energy security will all be hot topics discussed by the rich and powerful who will gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum from January 23 to 27. </description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Smelly Davos unveils new world odor</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/23/davos.perfume/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/23/davos.perfume/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>If there's a sweet smell at this year's Global Economic Forum, it's unlikely to be success.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Recession fears stalk Davos meeting</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/23/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/23/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Bleak forecasts for the global economy dominated Wednesday's opening of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, but business and government leaders were divided over the possibility of a global recession.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Captain's Blog, Stardate: 1/23/08</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/23/magazines/fortune/serwer_davos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/23/magazines/fortune/serwer_davos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>DAVOS: Given worldwide financial jitters, I think the sense of urgency at Davos is palpable. If there was ever a need to have an intelligent truly global debate, it is now. The issues here are pressing and real-time. Attendees from outside the U.S. are feeling penalized, and there is real concern that the U.S. doesn't have the leadership to respond properly, and that that response may become overly political given the ongoing campaign.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos's gloomy Americans</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/23/magazines/fortune/gumbel_davos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/23/magazines/fortune/gumbel_davos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>There's a lot of snow in Davos for this year's World Economic Forum, but a noticeable lack of the usual sunny American optimism about economic prospects.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Market avalanches hit Davos talks</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/22/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/22/davos.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Avalanching global markets were expected to come crashing onto the agenda in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week as world leaders and big business names gathered for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos 2008: Networking on the slopes</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/15/davos.intro/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/15/davos.intro/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>From January 23 to 27 the sleepy Swiss town of Davos will be overrun with some of the biggest names in business and politics for five days of talking, networking, schmoozing and skiing. </description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dateline Davos: CNN's coverage</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/16/dateline.davos/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/16/dateline.davos/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tony Blair will lead a prestigious panel in a unique CNN and World Economic Forum joint debate, to be televised on CNN from this year's event in Davos.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The main players at Davos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/16/davos.profiles/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/16/davos.profiles/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>With over 200 public figures attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, the Swiss town is set to be a real-life who's who of international statesmen and politicians. Below we've profile a few of this year's big hitters.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Bono-ization of activism</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/12/ww.klein/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/12/ww.klein/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Naomi Klein's 2000 book "No Logo" galvanized a generation to resist the lure of brands and corporatization. </description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At Davos: citizenship, apostasy and $100 laptops</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/technology/fastforward_davos.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/technology/fastforward_davos.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>I was sitting in a session at Davos idly doing e-mail when I suddenly slapped my laptop closed and listened, amazed. Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, on stage, was asserting that global warming doesn't much matter, that Al Gore deliberately omitted contradictory information from his movie "An Inconvenient Truth," and that the world would be better off using money it is spending to comply with the Kyoto Protocol to improve water supplies.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos 2007: Video Archive</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/01/29/davos.video/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/01/29/davos.video/index.html</guid><description>A complete archive of all CNN's video reports from the 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting a Second Life in Davos</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/25/technology/fastforward_davos_secondlife.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/25/technology/fastforward_davos_secondlife.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>I'll reiterate what I said in a feature story I wrote for the current issue of Fortune - Second Life is important not because it resembles a game, or because of how many people are signing up, or the big companies starting to do business inside it. What convinces me it is one of the most significant technology breakthroughs in history is that it is a platform on top of which users can create their own software and content, realize their ideas, and even make money.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>World Economic Forum: Factbox</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/01/23/davos.factbox/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/01/23/davos.factbox/index.html</guid><description>About 2,400 businessmen and politicians are expected to attend the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, including 900 company chief executives and board chairs and 24 heads of state -- among them British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ready for $262 a barrel oil?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Be afraid. Be very afraid.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>LBO Kings Go Clubbin'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/03/8373042/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/03/8373042/index.htm</guid><description>The Grand Ballroom at the Pierre Hotel in New York City is an unlikely place to hear people talk about "clubbin'," particularly when they're Wall Streeters wearing expensive suits. But that was the... </description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>LBOs are only going to get bigger -- here's why</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/23/magazines/fortune/lbo_fortune_040306/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/23/magazines/fortune/lbo_fortune_040306/index.htm</guid><description>The grand ballroom at the Pierre Hotel in New York is an unlikely place to hear people talk about going clubbin', particularly when they're a bunch of Wall Street types wearing expensive suits.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Defending the party of Davos</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/10/news/international/pluggedin_2_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/10/news/international/pluggedin_2_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>You may know the scene from the bitterly satiric 1976 movie "Network:" The CEO of a big media conglomerate, Arthur Jensen (played by Ned Beatty), calls raving anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) into a darkened boardroom for a tongue-lashing.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Taking off the blinders</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/02/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/02/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>"It is just amazing how parochial Americans are," I heard a voice just in front of me say. "Amazing," agreed another.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Luge</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/01/31/sports.luge/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/01/31/sports.luge/index.html</guid><description>The oldest sleds yet found were discovered in the Oslo fjord region and date back to 800 AD.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The next phase in the tech revolution</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/international/davos_3_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/international/davos_3_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Eric Pooley reports: If a session at Davos isn't absolutely great I start to wish I was up on the mountain instead of down in the Congress Center. Right now all thoughts of skiing have been banished: Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, John Chambers and Niklas Zennstrom are talking about the next phase in the tech revolution, and how they're making it pay.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Where old media still matter</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/25/news/international/davos_2_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/25/news/international/davos_2_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Justin Fox reports: For members of the Old Media, Davos remains stuck in a blissful time warp where they still matter and there's no Matt Drudge or Instapundit or Daily Kos around to cause trouble. Genius that he is, World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab long ago swept the people who run the world's newspapers, magazines and TV networks into a tight embrace, and he's not letting go, at least not yet.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>New motto: Don't be unprofitable</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/26/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/26/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Google is not evil. You'd think it was the end of the world as we know it, to read many accounts of the company's decision this week to create a new version of Google inside China that will censor certain search terms at the request of the government.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Powerful presence at annual gathering</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/25/davos.participants/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/25/davos.participants/index.html</guid><description>More than 2,300 people are attending the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos this week.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos agenda: Asia, climate, poor</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/01/25/worldforum.debate/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/01/25/worldforum.debate/index.html</guid><description>Saving the world was on the agenda, but for many of the business leaders, academics and activists who attended the "Big Debate" at the World Economic Forum, the theme may very well have been: Saving the West from China and India.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Google founder defends China portal</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/25/news/international/davos_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/25/news/international/davos_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>The World Economic Forum, a gathering of leaders from the business world, media, academics, and assorted hollywood stars and do-gooders, is taking place this week. Fortune Magazine's journalists will keep you apprised of developments.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN shines spotlight on Davos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/24/davos.tv/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/24/davos.tv/index.html</guid><description>CNN has begun a week of coverage dedicated to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, including documentaries, live debate, interviews and regular news updates.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos prepares for elite gathering</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/24/switzerland.davos/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/24/switzerland.davos/index.html</guid><description>More than 2,300 business and and political leaders are heading for the annual World Economic Forum, which opens in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos on Wednesday and concludes on Sunday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Security tight for Davos forum</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/27/davos.main.0800/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/27/davos.main.0800/index.html</guid><description>Security was tight around the mountain town of Davos, Switzerland as global political and business leaders gathered for the annual World Economic forum.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Davos focus turns to Africa</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/27/davos.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/27/davos.main/index.html</guid><description>UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rock star Bono joined forces Thursday in Davos an attempt to focus the world spotlight on the plight of Africa.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chirac: Despair like a 'tsunami'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/26/davos.main.1349/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/26/davos.main.1349/index.html</guid><description>French President Jacques Chirac has warned that "silent tsunamis" of despair, such as unemployment, are plaguing the world, and called on those attending the World Economic Forum help others.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blair: U.S. must court allies</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/26/davos.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/26/davos.main/index.html</guid><description>The United States must work more closely with other countries on their priorities, such as global warming, if it wants the rest of the world to support its agenda, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rage Against Off-Shoring Is Off Target</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/23/362209/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/23/362209/index.htm</guid><description>Seldom have so many had such strong opinions about something they understand so poorly. </description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rage against off-shoring is off target</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/16/fortune.ff.offshoring.benefit/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/16/fortune.ff.offshoring.benefit/index.html</guid><description>Seldom have so many had such strong opinions about something they understand so poorly.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>World leaders look to tech, not politics</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/28/fortune.ff.tech.politics/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/28/fortune.ff.tech.politics/index.html</guid><description>"I do not see much hope in the political domain, but a lot of hope in the technological domain," said Shimon Peres last week at a private breakfast he hosted in a knotty wood-paneled ski-hotel dining room in Davos, Switzerland.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Musharraf: We will act over nukes</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/musharraf.nuclear/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/musharraf.nuclear/index.html</guid><description>Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has vowed to prosecute any Pakistani nuclear experts who passed their knowledge to other countries.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>'Ministers quit' in Iran poll row</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/21/iran.resignations/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/21/iran.resignations/index.html</guid><description>Iran's Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi says a number of ministers have tendered their resignations in an ongoing dispute over the disqualification of hundreds of pro-reform candidates.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>With Tech's Eclipse, It's Time to Dream Again From             Davos, four unsettling visions of a future filled with           </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337308/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337308/index.htm</guid><description>Here in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, technology has utterly lost the limelight. That's no surprise, considering that dot-com fever is a distant memory and that the leaders gathe...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Word</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337316/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337316/index.htm</guid><description>As buck-wild party towns go, Davos is hardly Cannes. But this year at least a few Economic Forum luminaries got their groove on when the Soul Solution band played the main Saturday night Belvedere ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>February The FORTUNE Business Calendar The shortest             month brings big events: Davos in New York, the Winter          </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/02/04/317489/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/02/04/317489/index.htm</guid><description>For more information on these events, see fortune.com/calendar. </description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2002 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Lobbyist </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/01/21/316591/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/01/21/316591/index.htm</guid><description>BACK IN NYC PREPPING FOR DAVOS, THIS YEAR AT THE WALDORF. IT HASN'T CHANGED. RATHER HOPE IT NEVER WILL. THE NICE PEOPLE FROM BUFFALO HAVE TO STAY SOMEWHERE. CALL ME A SNOB, CALL ME AT THE ST. REGIS...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2002 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Class Action WHERE TO SHARPEN YOUR PENCILS AND GET CRACKING</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/06/01/304105/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2001/06/01/304105/index.htm</guid><description>NON-DEGREE PROGRAMS </description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Davos, Talk of Death The modern corporation is on its last legs. So say the brains at the World Economic Forum.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/03/05/297828/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/03/05/297828/index.htm</guid><description>There was plenty of news at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos: Antiglobalization protesters confronted Swiss police, Yasser Arafat excoriated Israel. And then there was this quiet little ann...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Coming Up</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/02/01/272453/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/02/01/272453/index.htm</guid><description>JANUARY </description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Real About Going Global WHAT'S FIZZ? WHAT'S FIZZLE?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/02/15/254913/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/02/15/254913/index.htm</guid><description>A couple of years ago a pack of top dogs from the Conference Board stopped by to chew on ideas. At one point I asked what the business research group's member companies were worried or confused abo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>