SigEx Ventures : Skidmore, Owings and Merrill keep on building the greatest skyscrapers in the worldby Corina Ciubotaru

When you think developed country, you think high-rise office buildings, people in a hurry and sophisticated technology. Buildings that nearly touch the sky are cool, modern and unique as architects are trying their best to push the boundaries of design and build innovation. And who doesn’t like a beautiful office building anyway? Examples are many, from the Sears Tower, to the Time Warner Center, to the Freedom Tower and the world’s tallest building, the Burj Dubai. They all come from a company called Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, founded in 1936 in Chicago. This company is responsible for the first glass-covered skyscrapers and has paved the way for the innovation and cutting edge design that we see in most luxury office buildings today. Some of SOM’s newest projects include the Broadgate Tower in London with the first double-decker lifts in the UK, the Pearl River Tower in China which is intended to provide more energy than it uses, the Trump International Hotel and Tower with 90 stories of hotels and condominiums, and the Pan Peninsula in London that will incorporate the city’s highest residential tower. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill has been the workplace for many influential architects over the years, but has preferred not to promote their names individually. The company has established the SOM Foundation that awards travel scholarships to talented young architects who want to enrich their view of the world. With 10,000 projects completed all over the world, the company has established itself as an icon in architectural circles and will continue to create astonishing buildings that take us all by storm.

related story: http://www.somfoundation.som.com/fellowships_awards.htm

by Corina Ciubotaru for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

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SigEx Ventures : The Subprime Crisis: What Happens Next?by Delia Cruceru

Wednesday, 18th July, at 7 PM on BLOOMBERG TV, Brian Sullivan hosted a special report "Subprime Shockwaves", about the impact of subprime mortgages lending crisis on house owners and home buyers. It is expected that rate of mortgages to rise from September, which made consumers and business people to ask if these mortgage defaults will increase and it they are bearable. Sullivan and his guests are trying to figure out the impact that this crisis has on the market. The show featured interviews with many specialists from this domain like Richard F. Syron, Chairman and CEO of Freddie Mac James Chanos, President of Kynikos Associates, Dr. Robert J. Shiller, Chief Economist at MacroMarkets LLC and professor at Yale University and others. The exclusives news were available for watchers on BLOOMBERG TV and BLOOMBERG Radio and for BLOOMBERG Professional service users. Now clips from that interview are available on BLOOMBERG Professional service. BLOOMBERG TV is a network that deals with news and produces shows from business and financial domain; it is aired 24 hours on 11 separate channels in seven languages and it has 2300 professionals across the world. BLOOMBERG is the leader of the market for providing data, news, analyses and financial reports, with services like BLOOMBERG Professional, radio station BLOOMBERG Radio, and publications like BLOOMBERG MARKETS magazine and BLOOMBERG PRESS(R) books for investment professionals.

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by Delia Cruceru for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models