Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com (CNN) -- Reports have surfaced again in the past week that Facebook is working on a phone. The latest news on the long-rumored project is that Facebook has abandoned its plan to work on both the hardware and software, as Apple does ...

What does this place mean to you?’ I ask the lady at the Wartburg – the immense castle that crouches over the crest of the mountain above the town of Eisenach. She doesn’t hesitate: ‘To me? To Germans? One thousand years of positive German history.’ Related slideshow: The quiet land of Thuringia The stress she put on it is understandable. Against her statement, the cacophony and catastrophe of a couple of d ...

Cairo (CNN) -- Initial results of Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak are due as early as Thursday. Both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Al Noor Salafi Muslim Party have claimed a lead in ballot counting, but election officials have been tight-lipped. Voting took place Monday and Tuesday, the first in a multi-step process to pick members of the lower house of parli ...

Kazakhstan is fast emerging as the key player in Eurasia. It has come a long way since its independence in 1991. It has emerged as one of the fastest developing countries in the entire region and its per capita income is far head of Russia. Kazakhstan is the fourth largest proven reserve of uranium and is going to play a vital role in the world energy security in the coming years. Mr Doulat Kuanyshev, the A ...

She is a journalist to the core. Having studied International Relations from The American University, she worked in the United States until the home beckoned her. She chose working as a journalist in India over the American citizenship. She is now the foreign affairs editor with The Statesman newspaper. Journalist and Author, Simran Sodhi speaks to mediakhabar. Thank you for taking time off your schedule an ...

Ravi Prakash is the founder CEO of the Associated Broadcasting Company Pvt. Ltd (ABCL) - one of the fastest growing media companies in India. Under his patronage, ABCL started with a 24-hour news channel (TV9 AP) in Andhra Pradesh in 2004, and shortly became a name to reckon with. Bold and fearless, young CEO, Ravi Prakash speaks to Zain Awan about his past, present and the future plans. Thank you for this ...