BBC World Service - Business Daily

Elements: Germanium

Nanotech, virtual reality, and the stuff that could oust the silicon from Silicon Valley.

What went wrong at Nokia; Finland's economy; Helsinki's tech start-ups.

Are forecasts of global crisis exaggerated? Plus Jamaican recovery and working too hard.

Why are economists so bad at forecasting a downturn? Are markets any better?

How to make a living out of posting your own videos online

Radium, polonium and radon sound frightening, but are they actually useful for anything?

Feminism: Its role in the workplace and how advertising has changed its meaning.

China's new five-year plan; carbon emissions realism; and the dying art of office pranks.

Brazil's maids, its collapsing economy, and semi-naked women at car shows.

In Ghana thousands of children are believed to work as slaves in the fishing industry