Description: Joseph Gromek, former CEO at Warnaco Group, examines J. Crew’s pricing strategy on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.”
Source: Bloomberg.com –video report
Date: Jan 30, 2014
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Description: Neurotics rejoice. If you can. Research suggests that the more anxious and withdrawn among us tend to gain respect over time at work, while more outwardly confident extroverts lose some of their initial esteem. To some degree, the research shows the value of creating low expectations, said the study’s lead author, Corinne Bendersky, an associate professor at the Anderson School of Management of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Feb 01, 2014
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/business/that-neurotic-on-the-team-give-him-time.html?ref=business
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Description: The Gillette-Schick duopoly better watch out for Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s, which promise more convenience and less cost to do what men hate most in the morning. Don’t look now, bros but your morning routine is getting disrupted—in a good way.
Source: TheDailyBeast.com
Date: Jan 24, 2014
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Description: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he’s confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May. It’s also been a decade since his first date with Priscilla Chan, now his wife, whom he first met in line for the bathroom at a Harvard fraternity party.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Jan 30, 2014
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Description: New York City will get a $550 million economic boost from next weekend’s Super Bowl and corporations will get big deductions for their lavish spending.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Jan 24, 2014
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/01/24/big-game-big-spending-big-tax-breaks.cnnmoney/index.html
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Description: On-demand taxi service Gett accuses Uber of ordering 100-plus cars and canceling them.CNNMoney investigates.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Jan 24, 2014
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Description: There is a website where cats and dogs rule the day, profanities are common, and clips from Lord of the Rings movies can be used to convey universal sentiments like the joy of revenge. All right, there are plenty of websites like that, but this one is more popular than those of the Weather Channel and the New York Times. Although it looks like just another photo-sharing hub, it’s the best example yet of how a new generation of Internet users prefers to express itself.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Jan 23, 2014
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-23/how-imgur-became-a-photo-sharing-hit
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Description: Among the sleek guests who meditate and do Downward Facing Dog here at the Esalen Institute, the farmers appeared to be out of place. They wore baggy jeans, suspenders and work boots and had long ago let their hair go gray.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Jan 25, 2014
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/business/the-elders-of-organic-farming.html?ref=business
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Description: On a late-November day in 1983, Steven Levy, then a freelance journalist for Rolling Stone, got into a car outside 10460 Bandley Drive, in Cupertino, Calif. As the vehicle sped away from the white office building, Mr. Levy looked at the driver and said hello to Steven P. Jobs, then the young, spry co-founder of Apple, who immediately responded with a voluble tirade about the magazine Mr. Levy worked for.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Jan 24, 2014
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Description: “I don’t know a single person who watches the Super Bowl,” said a worried Steve Jobs, then just 28 years old. The event he was referring to commanded a television audience of more than 80 million at the time, but Jobs’ nervousness at the prospect of Apple spending $1.6m (£1m) to secure two 60-second TV ad slots during the game was understandable. After all, the kind of computers that Apple manufactured just didn’t belong in the home of the average football fan; its pioneering Lisa machine was priced at an eye-watering $10,000, the equivalent to more than $23,000 (£14,000) today.
Source: TimesofIndia.com
Date: Dec 06, 2013
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