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Microsoft agreed a partnership with nokia, which will see smartphones such as the N97 run the office suite applications.

Ryanair are said to invest A $140m in their new base, it is said that it will have a hige impact on the local businesses, economy and political leaders
it is said that this new investment would create 100 direct jobs and sustain up to 1,000 others in the area as it served 14 new routes.

Mr Carter joint leader of Leeds city council said: “It is a very positive move. They are a very successful company and it is great they have chosen to locate here.”

I guess facebook finally gave up on buying twitter, can we really call friendfeed, second best or will facebook finally dominate twitter with the help of new friend.

Just Image Myspace(Newscorp=Rupert Murdock) turn round and decide to buy twitter…

Social Networking sites don’t get more exciting..

The Reign of Facefeed.

Financial details are still not been released

Shell LiveWIRE in Scotland
In association with
Scotish Enterprise

17th September 2009
Apex Waterloo Place Hotel
23-27 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh EH1 3BH (map)
Time: 10am-6pm (lunch is included)
Cost: Free (tickets are limited so if you wish to attend RSVP ASAP to anna.lt@shell-livewire.org)

The event will feature an ‘elevator pitch’ style competition with a first prize of £1,000 and second prize of £500, plus inspirational guest speakers including;
Mike Southon (Author of ‘The Beermat Entrepreneur’) – international business speaker and weekly columnist for the Financial Times, Mike will be our keynote speaker for the day and will also be judging our ‘elevator pitch’ competition.

Melanie Harris (The Training Tree) will be running her excellent workshop “Flirting For Success” to get you all in the mood for networking.

Mike Welch (Black Circles – former Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2003 winner will be hosting a session on “How To Boost Your Sales”.

Nicky Gray (Kiki’s Kabin / TEDCO) – former Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007 (North East) winner is running a session on “How To Do A Great Elevator Pitch and Sell Your Business”.

Jonathan Kennedy (Director, Wave PR Ltd) will be running a session on “How To Make Your Business Attractive To The Media”.

To book your place at this free event please email Anna Lawn-Thomas
at anna.lt@shell-livewire.org with your full contact details.

Suli Breaks just recently graduated from University of Sheffield with a degree in law.

Suli breaks is a poet looking to use his witty controversial, yet enlightening style, he is slowly becoming the crowd’s favourite. Using a style which he describes as a “mixture of everything he has ever seen or known” he light heatedly jokes that his aim is to make “Poetry kool!”.

Hey Suli, how is it going? Welcome to YHP.

Due to the grace of God, I am fine thank you very much.

Before we move, can you quickly give the YHP readers some background information about yourself?

Suli Breaks aka Suli Breezy aka Mr Riddle Riddle(Laughter), I am a Poet, who has performed at numerous venues across the country, has been featured in the Voice, was winner of Aspire Talent 2008 and was also a finalist in the 2009 Uni’s Got Talent Competition.

You’ve just graduated from the university, how do you feel closing that chapter in your life, or are you going for a masters?

Rahh…it was ALOT. ALOT in the sense that it was a big experience, but also in the sense that it was ALOT of work.
I’m half and half right now. It’s quite a relief, because finally I get to work on my own schedule, no one telling that this has to be due at this time and I have to write this, exams are this time etc.
However, it is also quite intimidating, because this is where everything starts. Everything I do from this point onwards is a step towards creating the life I want to be living in the future. It’s like every move is geared toward the bigger picture, whereas for me personally in the University it was like your always working towards the next exam or next assignment. I rarely looked at the whole thing in context.

So how did the name come about?

It would seem quite confusing to most readers.
Quick summary, if you’re a Baller (basketball player), you know what it means when you “break someone’s ankles”. Let’s just say I did quite a lot of ankle breaking in my day. My name being Suliaman, everyone already called me Suli. So it was quite ingenious that my coaches’ brother Ben Peters came up with the name “Suli Breaks” and it stuck.

So tell us? How did you get into poetry?

I didn’t really get into Poetry, you could say that it got into me. I did my first performance, because someone had told me to come and rap at a show(probably trying to embarrass me) and I told them that I don’t rap no more and that I would do a poem instead. BADDA BING BADDA BOOM!! Here I am now. That show went extremely well as could have imagined.

What do you feel makes a good poem?

Being yourself. Channelling what you feel and believe. It sounds corny, but that’s what works for me. It’s like the poem is an extension of yourself. Things I talk about in a poem would be the same things I talk about on the phone to my wife.

Describe your poems in 5 words?

Inspiring, Creative, Insightful, Thought provoking (that’s 2 I know) and lastly Suli Breaks(my poems are basically my views brought to you in different mediums)

Who are your roles models/influences?

Being a Muslim, my obvious role model is the prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) who practices I attempt to emulate to bring me closer to God.
Aside from that, my role models are everyone who is the best at what they do. If it comes to basketball-Kobe Bryant, Acting-Denzel Washington. I just admire people who have strived to perfect their art of are recognised as one of the best in their field.
I also have another one, but it’s a secret because that person doesn’t know( I don’t think) so I will keep it to myself.

What is your favourite poem from your collection?

I don’t have one you know. I like different ones at different times.

What is your favourite poem and poet?

I don’t really listen to poet or follow it to have any favourite ones, but I really like this one though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iVAqePmZMI

Do you have a writing routine?

Not really.

What do you do away from writing poems?

I used to play basketball, but right now I’m stressed trying to find a job so am at home most of the time. I hit the gym quite often too.

What do you feel it takes to stand out as a poet?

You have to hit the crowd at angles they don’t expect. You know they expect poets to be like this and like that, but if you show them that you’re a little different that usually catches their attention.

Who is your favourite poet at the moment?

Jay-Z (Bursts in Laughter)
I really don’t pay too much attention to poetry!!

What current project are you working on and would you like to share it with the readers?

Well, those of you that are avid fans will have been aware that I did a weekly competition called “Riddle Riddle” last year. (Check Facebook group: Riddle Riddle for more details).
I am planning to launch Season 2 when semester resumes this year God willing. That’s all I’m giving away.

This year’s project is going to involve quite a few more parties.

Who are you currently reading?

Stephanie Myers.
Well, actually i’m reading James Caan “The Real Deal”, but I feel it is my duty to highlight how amazing Myers books are. I have just finished reading “Breaking Dawn.” She is hands down one of the best writers I have ever read the “Twilight” series is actually too SICK!! Let me not get too carried away and lose half my fan base.
No homo!!

If you weren’t writing poems, what else do you think you will be pursuing as a career?

Errrmm….Basketball. However, the game kind of outgrew me, literally. I got too short to play.(Laughter). I would probably be pursuing a law career as I did study a law degree.

If you could offer only one piece of advice to your fellow poets, what would it be?

Well, I think they should just try and be themselves that sounds corny too, but I mean don’t try to do what I’m doing or the next person is doing. Just do whatever feels most natural to you. As James Caan says ( I told you I been reading): Observe the masses and do the opposite.

So what’s next for you?

People need to wait and see, because I have the kind of ideas that people couldn’t imagine, so it’s hard to describe and only really time will reveal. Just know that God willing, I won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.

Thanks for your time.
YHP Wishes you the best.

Contact Information

Facebook- Suli Breaks
Myspace- www.myspace.com/sulibreaks11
Youtube- http://www.youtube.com/user/sulibreezy

Interviewed & Edited by Joseph Ajilore

YHP’s Joseph Ajilore spoke to Aku-Ville Lehtimäki, Treasurer of the new entrepreneurship society, Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (AES) about their plans.

For you just hearing about it, Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (AES), founded in January 2009, is a student-run society, an initiative for promoting growth entrepreneurship among students by making them see growth entrepreneurship as a viable career alternative.

He said “the society have noticed the attitude towards entrepreneurship in Finland is poor and therefore prevents many a student to found a business by themselves”.
AES will provide the students with peer support, contacts (e.g. to build a team), and possibilities to find funding.

He also stated that “Another motivation for AES comes from the fact that innovations are poorly commercialized in Finland”.

This fact is widely known, but no one has taken an action so far. “AES will make those innovations – gathering dust on the shelves of different institutions – be commercialized by students”.

Their name comes from upcoming Aalto University, a Finnish merger of three existing universities: Helsinki School of Economics (HSE), Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), and University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK). Aalto University will be up and running 1st of January 2010. http://www.aaltoyliopisto.info/en
All the eight board members of AES are from either HSE or TaiK or TKK. The board is currently chaired by Kristo Ovaska. Working with the board there are also a group of AES team members who have a variable background – they are students, but not all are from these three schools mentioned above.

Events

AES has organized about 20 events so far. Some of the events are more formal for example startup entrepreneurs are invited to speak about their businesses, background etc. while others are mainly for chatting and networking.

The success of spring 2009 was StartupTalkoot. It was a two-day event where students and startup entrepreneurs gathered to enhance the startups. Next Talkoot will take place in Moscow and it has also been planned on to have Talkoot in Stanford and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

These events have helped to form at least two student-run startup concepts: Arctic Alarms http://www.arcticalarms.fi/en and Cityard http://mlab.taik.fi/cityard . The aim of AES is to have students to found 50 startups annually.

AES on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37295947284
AES: blog page: http://www.aaltoes.com

I know most of you use Blackboard in your universities are properly don’t care who started it, well i do, so here you go!! Now you know him.

Michael Chasen is the Founder of Blackboard

Mr. Chasen received a BS degree from American University and an MBA degree from Georgetown University School of Business and an undergraduate degree in computer science from American University.

SmartCEO magazine selected Mr. Chasen as its first “Chief Executive Officer of the Year” in 2006.

Ernst & Young named Mr. Chasen as “Entrepreneurs of the Year for Emerging Companies in Washington, D.C.

The Kilby Awards Foundation also honored Mr. Chasen as “Young Innovators” for having recognized and delivered on the demand for a high-quality, easy-to-use, and cost-effective online educational software platform.

The Critical Ingredient is getting off your butt, and doing something, it’s as simple as that, A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now, not tomorrow, not next week, But Today. The True Entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer –

Nolan Bushnell founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s.