Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: North Korea Diplomat to Visit US for Nuclear Talks

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that Kim Kye Gwan, North Korea’s first vice minister and former chief nuclear envoy, will visit New York this week to meet with senior U.S. officials.  Clinton said Kim will meet with an interagency team of U.S. officials for discussions on the next steps necessary to resume denuclearization negotiations through the six party talks, involving the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia. The secretary said that although Washington is open to talks with North Korea, there is no appetite for lengthy negotiations that would only lead to the starting point again. Clinton also said that Washington would not give the North anything new for actions they have already agreed to take. She added that the U.S. position remains that North Korea must comply with its commitments under the 2005 Joint Statement of the Six Party Talks, relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions, and the terms of the Armistice Agreement.

Hypo Venture Capital Headlines: Debate on modern technology in the classroom needs a reboot

There’s no doubt that technology brings with it some scary things. The scariest of them all is the uncertainty.

Human beings are creatures of habit and the introduction of anything new typically raises an eyebrow (at least) or pitchforks (more often). It’s a somewhat common theme that is tiresome to me, but one that provokes debate throughout the times.

The common gripe against smartphones and mobile devices is that they are shackles that handcuff an employee to their work – 24 hours a day and seven days a week.

While your boss may have an expectation that because you have a BlackBerry you should be responding to emails at 6 a.m. on a Saturday (emergency or not), this is less about your boss’s disposition and more about a lack of education as to how to use technology to get the best results.

Many people are shocked to hear my iPhone never makes a peep. I get one silent vibrate for text messages (and I’m quick to block those that I do not know) and two vibrations for a phone call.

My iPhone will not beep, vibrate or blink when emails, tweets or Facebook updates arrive. Why? It’s my job to best manage my technology (and not the other way around).

The people I work with know that email is the best form of communication with me and that if it’s an emergency, to please call.

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Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: World markets tumble on renewed US recession fears

Amid the uncertainty, traders pulled out of any risky investments — such as stocks, particularly financial ones, the euro and emerging market currencies — to pile into safe havens: U.S. Treasurys, the dollar, the Japanese yen and gold.

European shares slumped in early trading. Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 2.9 percent to 5,136.36. Germany’s DAX fell 4.7 percent to 5,280.13, and France’s CAC-40 tumbled 4.6 percent to 3,003.64.

Markets in the U.S. were closed for the Labor Day holiday.

Banking stocks were among the hardest hit after the U.S. government sued 17 financial firms Friday for selling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac billions of dollars worth of mortgage-backed securities that turned toxic when the housing market collapsed.

Among those targeted by the lawsuits were Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. Large European banks including The Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank and Credit Suisse were also sued.

Renewed jitters over the eurozone debt crisis also contributed to the slump in financial stocks amid concerns they would need to raise new capital. Deutsche Bank was down 9.4 percent in Frankfurt while Societe Generale in Paris shed 9 percent.