Richard Branson News

Earlier this week, some of the world's most accomplished leaders took to LinkedIn to offer the graduating class of 2013 some pearls of wisdom.

UNITEC is delighted to announce we will be showing two free screenings of the documentary - The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia.

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One of the City's best-known fund managers has joined UKIP as the business world continues to pick sides over Europe.

In a joint effort to safeguard and bolster the Caribbean region's tourism-dependent economy, fifteen Caribbean governments and seventeen corporations met on Necker Island, home of Sir Richard Branson , in the British Virgin Islands this weekend and committed approximately $64 million USD to preserve and protect the region's marine and coastal ... (more)

UPDATE: According to The Hollywood Reporter , the winning bid was 1.2 million euros, or about $1.5 million U.S. A second pair of seats on the same flight sold to another bidder for 1.8 million euros .

While in Montreal to speak at C2-MTL, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson stopped by the Virgin Mobile flagship store to meet with Quebec staff and share his latest global adventures, including Virgin Galactic's first rocket-powered flight test last month While in Montreal to speak at C2-MTL, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson stopped by ... (more)

Virgin Atlantic, with its in-flight bar, designer-clad flight attendants and leather seats, has emerged as the favorite long-haul airline among readers of a luxury travel magazine published by The Daily Telegraph.

Richard Branson recorded a special message for the launch party of Derek Handley's Snakk Media in March.

Private suborbital space planes built by two space tourism companies will likely launch some major test flights before this year is out, their builders say.

A new Water.org PSA was posted to the Internet on Wednesday , showing a number of new stars joining Matt Damon in his "toilet strike." Damon, who is also Water.org's co-founder, announced his "Toilet Strike" back in February, pledging not to use the bathroom until "everyone in the whole world has access to clean water and sanitation." Somehow we ... (more)

Members of the question-and-answer site Quora submitted their picks for the smartest moves in business.

Eight Kiwis have so far booked to fly outside the earth's atmosphere with Virgin Galactic, said House of Travel, the accredited 'space agent' in New Zealand.

Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, told members of the Class of 2013 to "be ambitious." "Be ambitious.

The royal went under the radar last Friday night when he slipped into a bowling alley just near Wills and Kate's Kensington Palace home with the former Aussie soap pin up.

A mobile alert app designed by Amnesty International to help protect human rights activists in danger is in the running for the prestigious Global Impact Award .

David Karp set up Tumblr a social networking site which allows users to share photos, songs, videos or essays from his mother's cramped New York flat when he was just 20.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 22 /CSRwire/ - From deep inside a bastion of the American establishment, and armed with a $50,000 "carrot," 200 delegates from more than 25 states are gathering with a mission to move America's economic policy from growth for just profits toward growth "for benefit." Welcome to the fourth-sector economy populated by a new ... (more)

Sir Richard Branson now has a target date for the first manned flight to space from New Mexico's Spaceport America.

Business tycoon Sir Richard Branson has told how he was heavily influenced by the Dice Man books - which encouraged readers to hand over decisions to the throw of a dice.