Description: Inventory bought via networks, exchanges most at risk
Source: eMarketer.com
Date: Sep 07, 2012
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Description: In my previous post, “The Real Reason the U.S. Doesn’t Make iPhones: We Wouldn’t Want To,” I argued that the current cost structure does not make any sense to assemble iPhones in America. I argued that we would be better off focusing on designing iPhones but letting the Chinese handle the assembly. The article has generated quite a few responses and heated debates. After some periods of soul searching, I have come to realize that I need to revise my original conclusion. So, I say yes, we can make iPhones in America.
Source: Forbes.com
Date: Sep 07, 2012
Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/baizhuchen/2012/09/07/yes-we-canmake-iphones-in-america/
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Description: For over 100 years, Crayola has mixed and molded crayons in the hopes of encouraging creativity in children.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Aug 29, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2012/08/29/sbiz-hwgs-crayola-crayons.cnnmoney/
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Description: Facebook shares fell 5% to new lows Friday as two analysts from firms that underwrote its initial public offering cut their price targets on the shares, Paul Vigna reports on the News Hub. Photo: AP.
Source: Moneywatch.com – video report
Date: Aug 31, 2012
Link: http://on.wsj.com/R3hzXy
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Description: No matter what your line of work, it’s only getting harder to avoid death by PowerPoint. Since Microsoft (MSFT) launched the slide show program 22 years ago, it’s been installed on no fewer than 1 billion computers; an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given each second across the globe; the software’s users continue to prove that no field of human endeavor can defy its facility for reducing complexity and nuance to bullet points and big ideas to tacky clip art.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: Aug 30, 2012
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-30/death-to-powerpoint#r=nav-fst
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Description: IF there’s a public villain of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill — one person who, rightly or not, will be remembered for the deadly blowout, the black slick and all that followed — it’s probably Tony Hayward.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Sep 01, 2012
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Description: The average worker today stays at each of his or her jobs for 4.4 years, according to the most recent available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but the expected tenure of the workforce’s youngest employees is about half that.
Source: Forbes.com
Date: Aug 14, 2012
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Description: A small solar business, once the leading light of President Obama’s green jobs program, is now caught in an international trade dispute.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Aug 24, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/08/23/n-obama-solar-star-not-shining.cnnmoney/
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Description: AT&T created a unique innovation pipeline for its 250,000 employees to streamline their ideas towards production
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Aug 23, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/magazines/fortune/2012/08/23/f-l-att-idea-pipeline.fortune/
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Description: Apple Inc. (AAPL) scored a clear victory in its patent dispute with Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) yesterday, increasing pressure on smartphone makers around the world to create handsets that stand apart from the iPhone and deliver more choices for consumers in a $219.1 billion market.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Aug 25, 2012
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