Ratan Tata"Tata is also moving into South Africa, building on a shared colonial past. R. D. Tata helped finance Mahatma Gandhi's campaign to win greater rights for Asian immigrants to South Africa. Once the country democratized, Tata built schools to train carpenters and electricians. Now the group strategy is to promote "black empowerment" in order to raise the quality of lives, says Tata, and to use the country as a gateway through which to popularize the Tata brand in Africa."
Link:http://www.tatasteel.com/webzine/tatasteel_news/tisconewsarchive/issue_01_05-06/page_09.htm
Zhang Yin"China's richest billionaire is now a woman - 49-year-old Zhang Yin is worth a cool $3.4bn (£1.8bn). The tycoon is the world's richest self-made woman, having built China's largest paper recycling business, Nine Dragons Paper, which was floated on the Hong Kong stock market just six months ago. She seems an eloquent symbol of the new China; a capitalist whose success and wealth was unthinkable before Deng Xiaoping freed China from the embrace of Maoism in 1978. It is capitalists such as her who are proof that paradoxically it is communist China that is home to the globe's most vigorous capitalism. And she is a woman."
Link:http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1922797,00.html
Carlos Slim"Carlos Slim, the richest guy in the world and head of Telmex, is spending 870 million on a health institute, telecenters and this includes 70 million for 250,000 XOs. Focus will be on Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico State, and Tuxtla Gutieérrez in Chiapas."
"would devote about $70 million (51 million euros) this year to the low-cost laptop program. With an estimated cost of $250 (183 euros) to $300 (220 euros) per machine"
Link:http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/mexico/olpc_mexico_carlos_slim_xo_laptops.html
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