Description: Take a tour of Volkswagen’s $1 billion plant that opened in Chattanooga, TN.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 12, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/02/12/n-volkswagen-vw-plant-tennessee.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: Cable companies can’t sign up any more people. In fact, they’re losing them to the Internet. So the only way to survive is to monopolize more of the market and up-sell subscribers just as Comcast-Time Warner Cable will do.
Source: TheDailyBeast .com
Date: Feb 14, 2014
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Description: As the insensitive comments and sky-high salaries add up, it’s easy to start thinking that CEOs and other execs have completely lost touch with the lives of everyday Americans. Sadly, that’s likely the case.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Feb 14, 2014
Link: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/14/out-of-touch-ceos/
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Description: A few times a month, Airbus Flight Test Engineer Patrick du Ché stands up from his desk, takes off his jacket and tie, walks to the coat rack in the corner of his office, and slips into a set of fire-resistant underwear, a bright-orange flight suit, and sturdy black boots. Then he walks down two flights of stairs and out onto the tarmac of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in southern France. There, rising above a fleet of newly painted A320 short-haul jets, is an Airbus A350-XWB long-range widebody airliner—the very first of its kind.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Feb 13, 2014
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-13/how-airbus-is-debugging-the-a350#r=hp-ls
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Description: From company branding to recruitment, New Yorkers sound off on how social media sites like Twitter and Facebook have helped them professionally.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 06, 2014
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Description: Gun manufacturers are clearly trying to catch the eye and wallet of women, who are becoming a more important segment of their customer base.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Feb 06, 2014
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Description: Microsoft’s new chairman brings focus and an even keel to its board of directors.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Feb 07, 2014
Link: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/07/who-is-john-thompson/
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Description: If there’s one word that’s almost certain to appear somewhere on every business’s website, that word is talent. Companies of every size love to talk about talent! They can talk about talent all day long.
Source: Forbes.com
Date: Feb 01, 2014
Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2014/02/01/ten-ways-companies-drive-away-talent/
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Description: THE ads ran for years. The global charity Save the Children asked for a monthly donation, and in return, a few times a year the donors received a photo and handwritten note or drawing from children in impoverished places like Haiti.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Feb 07, 2014
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Description: Business is booming for the superstar quarterback as he heads into the hunt for his second Super Bowl ring.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Jan 31, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/01/31/n-business-of-being-peyton-manning.cnnmoney/index.html
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