Dhaka (CNN) – With 500,000 new migrants arriving in Bangladesh’s capital each year, finding space for them is a problem.

Where do 15 million people go to sleep every night? For several months of the year certain areas of Dhaka are under up to a meter of water, creating even greater pressure for secure housing.

Architect Mohammed Rezwan is building what he believes will be the solution to rising floods. North of Dhaka, on the Gumani River, is a floating village. More than 50 boats providing homes, hospitals and schools, and supporting 90,000 people.
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Editor’s note: The Millennials are a generation that are constantly plugged in and moving fast to make their mark on the world. CNN’s Quest Means Business is tracking four of them. Here, CNN contributor and Millennial David Lloyd – who in this week's episode is in the running for an innovation award - asks if foreign entrepreneurs are friend or foe.

(CNN) – There is a new talent war and it is global. But the battle to attract foreign entrepreneurs has put the differences between some countries under the microscope.

In the U.S., PayPal founder Peter Thiel is backing the construction of a ship which will host foreign entrepreneurs off California’s coast. This will keep them beyond the reach of America’s draconian immigration stance towards foreign wealth-creators.
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Dhaka (CNN) – Dhaka’s story is one of chaos, congestion and calamity. This city is choked with people, traffic and pollution. At the centre is what has been described as a traffic clot: The jaanjot. A sticky quagmire of rickshaws, cars and vans, it’s the source of much frustration for Dhaka’s 13 million residents.

This megacity has one of the highest traffic fatality rates in the world: In all its many streets and roads, only 67 junctions have traffic signals.

Like any city, Dhaka has its dreams, and its vision for the future. The Strategic Transport Plan is a mammoth document which promises a lot of things in the next 20 years, including a new metro system, and a rapid bus transit system. Yet with the dubious accolade of being the "rickshaw capital of the world," and 400,000 of these vehicles on the streets, it’s hard to see how the busy roads will give way to a calmer reality. A pilot project to create rickshaw-free zones for Dhaka’s pedestrians has been implemented, with some opposition.

The UN predicts that by 2025 Dhaka will be larger than Beijing, Shanghai, and Mexico City, with a population pushing 25 million. Finding space for these people to move around their already crammed city will be a major challenge.

Editor’s note: The Millennials are a generation that are constantly plugged in and moving fast to make their mark on the world. CNN’s Quest Means Business is tracking four of them.

(CNN) – In episode 11 of this week's Millennials, we look back at the earlier years.

We begin in London with Joe Braidwood. As a chief marketing officer, Joe has achieved more than most people at 27 years of age.

But is his success generational or is it down to great parenting?

We speak to his father and look back at some of Joe’s home videos to find out whether he’s Millennial from birth.

Editor’s note: The Millennials are a generation that are constantly plugged in and moving fast to make their mark on the world. CNN’s Quest Means Business is tracking four of them.

Editor’s note: The Millennials are a generation that are constantly plugged in and moving fast to make their mark on the world. CNN’s Quest Means Business is tracking four of them. In this guest blog, Millennial Joe Braidwood questions Facebook's $1 billion purchase of Instagram.

(CNN) - Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg casually penned 352 words on his Facebook Timeline to let the world know that he’d agreed to buy the popular photo-sharing app Instagram.

My first reaction was that this was a great move - photos are the most shared content on Facebook, and injecting some great engineering and vision into that part of their product portfolio, while also acquiring a big community of passionate users, makes perfect sense.

Then I read the price on VentureBeat - $1 billion in cash and stock. No, must be a typo. I checked TechCrunch. One billion.  FULL POST

London (CNN) – Many of Europe’s best economic minds have been searching for a radical solution to the European debt crisis.

The troubled area's biggest hitters - from the former head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, to Jose Manuel Barroso of the European Commission - have all failed to prescribe a remedy to the problems facing the single currency.

Now an 11-year old Dutch boy has devised a draconian plan inspired by a Mediterranean delicacy - pizza.
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London (CNN) – I have a confession to make. I don’t like pasties - the rather dry, pastry-heavy snack causing tax troubles for the British government.

Finance minister George Osborne, in a clamp down on VAT avoidance, has decided the tax should now be charged on hot takeaway food. It was obvious from the moment the proposal was announced there would be problems. Buy a pasty, pie or cake and have it served hot - you pay VAT. Take it cold and you don’t.

While the bakers and pie eaters of Britain may be up in arms, anyone who has studied tax knows that these tricky intricacies are inevitable. They happen all the time, especially since snack taxes have been introduced in the U.S. to help prevent obesity. There are even learned journals and articles on the subject.

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Editor’s note: The Millennials are a generation that are constantly plugged in and moving fast to make their mark on the world. CNN’s Quest Means Business is tracking four of them.

(CNN) – In New York, Michael Burbach tells CNN belief is everything.

According to this Millennial: "If you want it and need it enough, you can do it, that's the craziest thing."

But Michael's shot at the bright lights cannot begin without a dramatic final test.

Michael is joining his classmates at Marymount Manhattan College for their first rehearsal of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Michael's performance here is crucial. It is the culmination of years of hard work.

London (CNN) – Magic Johnson is back in LA, with a new sport to conquer.

The former LA Lakers legend - together with a group of investors calling themselves Guggenheim Baseball Management - has moved into Major League Baseball, spending $2 billion to buy the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers.

Magic's men won out over a list of suitors that read like some kind of financial fantasy baseball lineup. There were sports investors like Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke. America's 35th richest man, hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, was a frontrunner. Former team manager Joe Torre was interested. Even Walt Disney's family sniffed around.

Deadline day for the Dodgers

The successful $2 billion offer – the most expensive purchase of an American sports franchise in history – was a far higher price than expected.
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