Description: Ferrari XX Program allows a few of the most passionate fans to buy a FXX or a 599XX race cars and drive them on race tracks around the world.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Mar 14, 2014
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Description: The reason Sbarro is having a rougher time than other, more solvent purveyors of not-good food goes to the root of its business: You eat Sbarro not because you want Sbarro, but because it is the food that is available at the moment you want some food.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Mar 13, 2014
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Description: Who needs an army of lawyers when you have a computer? When Minneapolis attorney William Greene faced the task of combing through 1.3 million electronic documents in a recent case, he turned to a so-called smart computer program.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Mar 12, 2014
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/your-job-taught-to-machines-puts-half-u-s-work-at-risk.html
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Description: Facebook Inc. (FB) is releasing its long-awaited video-advertising product today, as the world’s largest social network moves to diversify its revenue by tapping into television-marketing budgets.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Mar 14, 2014
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-13/facebook-unveils-video-ads-to-court-tv-s-market.html
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Description: Performance reviews can be scary, but they can also mean a fatter paycheck.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Mar 04, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/pf/2014/02/28/pf-performance-reviews.moneymag/index.html
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Description: The first female CEO of a major automaker explains her philosophy on climbing up the corporate ladder.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Mar 03, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/magazines/fortune/2014/03/03/gm-ceo-mary-barra-career.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: Many businesses outsource work to other countries. But outsourcing can be scary. How do you know you’re not going to be ripped off, with a job that will return half-baked or not at all?
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Mar 04, 2014
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Description: The electronics chain announced that it will close 1,100 stores. Who will fill all that space? Think burritos.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Mar 05, 2014
Link: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/05/who-will-occupy-radioshacks-retail-desert/
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Description: For Nitin Kawale, the debate over the efficacy of telework in spurring productivity is yesterday’s news. From the vantage point of Cisco Canada‘s president, there’s no longer a debate at all; it’s a revolution that is already underway in most workplaces and is about to enter a much more comprehensive phase — a phase he dubs “the Internet of Everything.”
Source: FinancialPost.com – video report
Date: Mar 05, 2014
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Description: You may have heard about the professional who took heat for aggressively responding to a networking request. Here’s how to avoid such drama.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 28, 2014
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