The upstart company behind Offset4Poor, a website and free iPhone app (Blackberry and Android in development), wants your offset dollars to help the poor.

BBC: How big is your carbon footprint?

In Korea, for instance, while the largest lenders creak under non-performing business loans built up during the decades of rapid industrialization, a relative upstart like Shinhan Bank (est. 1981, No. 61 in the 500) can plot bold moves with its clean balance sheet.

CNN: The Asiaweek Financial 500

Value Renewal occurs (rarely) when a company adapts to new technology, changing customer needs, and upstart competitors.

FORBES: Failure to Renew: Why Yahoo and AOL Will Perish

Amgen does face a court battle against upstart Transkaryotic Therapies (nyse: TKTX - news - people) for the rights to Epogen.

FORBES: Biotech Briefing: Amgen

Abhisit's surprise elevation was finessed by the heavyweight trio of Chuan, Banyat and Suthep (also a deputy) - but was strategically opposed by Sanan, who also chastised some upstart Bangkok MPs for suggesting he stand down.

CNN: ALL STANDING IN A LINE

Buy an EETC backed by one of United's new Airbus A320s--the plane preferred by upstart airline JetBlue Airways (nyse: JBLU - news - people )--and you might make a big profit, Denney says.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Late last week, the FDA approved a new med called Eylea, which is made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ( see this), an upstart with board members that include such heavy hitters as former Merck ceo Roy Vagelos and, as of this morning, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former executive vp and chief scientific officer at Genentech, who is currently president of Rockefeller University, the medical research institution ( read here).

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