Description: Worldwide, digital ad spending passed the $100-billion mark for the first time last year, according to new eMarketer estimates, and will increase by a further 15.1% in 2013 to $118.4 billion.
Source: eMarketer.com
Date: Jan 09, 2013
Link: http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1009592#SH2CeEcfGTU7hlwu.99
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Description: Geomagic CEO Ping Fu discusses 3D printing. She speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: Jan 04, 2013
Link: http://bloom.bg/VDYr6W
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Description: Jon Erlichman introduces a report about Nasty Gal, an e-commerce website for women’s fashion which has become one of the fastest growing companies in Los Angeles. (Source:Bloomberg)
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: Jan 03, 2013
Link: http://bloom.bg/VFWUfO
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Description: At a recent job interview at Summit Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, an applicant was asked, “If you could pick one person to play you in a movie, who would it be?”
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Jan 03, 2013
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Description: EATWHATEVER is a two-step breath-freshening product created four years ago by a then-26-year-old Australian expatriate named Jacqui Rosshandler. Starting with $60,000 in capital, contracting out production and working solo from her New York apartment, Ms. Rosshandler and her company, Jacquii L.L.C., managed to grab a promising but tenuous toehold in the billion-dollar breath-freshening industry
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Jan 02, 2013
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Description: The St. Louis Cardinals’ mental fitness coach explains how to boost your brain’s performance. Plus, new research on making resolutions stick.
Source: Fortune.com
Date: Jan 02, 2013
Link: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/02/new-year-resolutions/?iid=F_F500M
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Description: As longshoremen from Maine to Texas negotiate into the final days, a threatened port strike could hit U.S. retailers, truckers and farmers.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Dec 27, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/12/27/n-ports-docks-strike-economic-damage.cnnmoney/
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Description: Bloomberg News’ Alex Sherman reports on cable’s rising costs. He speaks with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: Dec 28, 2012
Link: http://bloom.bg/12UIfCD
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Description: It’s become almost axiomatic that Facebook (FB) privacy settings are so complicated that even relatively savvy users get tripped up by them, especially since the giant social network has a reputation for changing them without warning, resetting defaults, and so on. In a deliciously ironic illustration of this phenomenon, Randi Zuckerberg—sister of Facebook co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg—was caught in a privacy snafu on Christmas Day, when one of her family photos was shared publicly. But there’s a larger point behind all the schadenfreude, and it’s about more than just Facebook being evil: Online privacy is complicated, and inventing new software settings isn’t really going to help.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Dec 27, 2012
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Description: In case you missed the latest news – – the National Hockey League has a hard enough time getting people to pay attention when games are actually being played –Commissioner Gary Bettman went nuclear last week, filing a lawsuit against his own players.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Dec 19, 2012
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-19/the-worst-commissioner-in-professional-sports.html
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