Description: BlackBerry CEO John Chen talks about the need for the struggling phone maker to keep enterprise customers.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 26, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/02/26/t-blackberry-ceo-chen-mwc.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: With 44-million subscribers and counting, Netflix is changing the way we watch TV and movies. The man with the remote? Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 21, 2014
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Description: Shortly after joining toymaker Hasbro (HAS) as a senior executive more than a decade ago, Brian Goldner took his 5-year-old daughter, Brooke, on a tour of headquarters. She wasn’t impressed. “She put her hands on her hips and said, ‘Dad, the way I see it, you don’t have any toys for girls,’?” recalls Goldner, who became chief executive officer in 2008. A lot has changed since.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Feb 27, 2014
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-27/at-hasbro-girls-toys-become-a-big-market#r=hpt-lst
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Description: Atop our annual ranking: innovators, disrupters, and companies that overcome adversity. (And a familiar No. 1.)
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Feb 28, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/most-admired/2014/snapshots/670.html?iid=SF_F_River
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Description: Zappos is transitioning to a new organizational structure. It’s not what you’re used to, and it’s not a democracy. Here’s a look at how a company can run as a holacracy.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 21, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/02/17/n-zappos-holacracy-no-job-titles.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: Facebook spent $19 billion on WhatsApp, turning its founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton into sensational Silicon Valley success stories.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 20, 2014
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Description: Designers are seeing benefits in going high tech, printing out clothing with details as precise as a tenth of a millimeter small.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 21, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/02/20/t-3d-printing-fashion-show.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: With the runaway success of Disney’s (DIS) Frozen and the explosive opening of Warner Bros.’s (TWX) The Lego Movie, animated films have had a great run in recent months. When a live-action movie becomes a big hit, it’s not long before imitators—both real and imagined—show up on the horizon. Doing the same in the animation world isn’t quite so simple.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Feb 21, 2014
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Description: Over the course of my career, I’ve encountered many self-described “serial entrepreneurs” — those who have made a career path out of launching new ventures, then moving on to the next. While the people I’ve met appear to have had strings of apparent successes, is entrepreneurial experience a predictor of future success?
Source: SmartPlanet.com
Date: Feb 20, 2014
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Description: Andrea Illy, chairman & CEO at Gruppo Illy, discusses the growing market for premium coffee, his company’s partnerships with Coca-Cola and Samsung, and offers his view of Italy’s economy on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 14, 2014
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2014-02-14/coffee-following-upward-trend-of-luxury-goods-illy
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