Description: The share of U.S. small businesses owned by immigrants has expanded by 50 percent since 1990, with almost one-fifth of business owners born outside the country, according to a new report (PDF) by the Fiscal Policy Institute.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: June 15, 2012
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-14/immigrants-role-in-the-small-business-economy-grows
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Description: When Hal Dvorak, a Harvard scientist whose ideas helped spur the advance of targeted cancer drugs, sought a partner recently to help him develop new treatments, he only had to walk two blocks to find one.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: June 15, 2012
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Description: Stanford University president John Hennessy says there may be a tech bubble going on right now, but not a “catastrophic” one.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: June 07, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2012/06/06/ctd_stanford_president.fortune/
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Description: Hanky Panky CEO Lida Orzek talks with Bloomberg’s Stephanie Ruhle about the prospects for the company of which 90 percent of the customers are based in the U.S. (Source: Bloomberg)
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: June 06, 2012
Link: http://bloom.bg/L3aXso
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Description: B2B companies lag behind their B2C counterparts when it comes to using social media to track what customers are saying about their brands and following up on that feedback.
Source: eMarketer.com
Date: June 08, 2012
Link: http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1009104&ecid=a6506033675d47f881651943c21c5ed4
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Description: Walt Disney Co. (DIS), aiming to combat childhood obesity by banning junk-food ads, will require that food and beverage advertising to kids on its TV networks and radio stations meet new nutritional standards by 2015.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: June 05, 2012
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Description: Has the Internet turned into a wasteland of hollow ideas and groupthink? Is it possible that in a day and age where any individual can have an idea and publish it in text, images, audio and video for the world to see – instantly and for free – that the true value of critical thinking has been lost? Has all of the user-generated content that we see in channels like YouTube lowered us to the point where the only thing everyone talks about around the water cooler is some moronic video of a poodle on a skateboard? Andrew Keen made this argument in his book, Cult Of The Amateur – How The Internet Is Killing Our Culture (Bantam Dell Publishing Group, June 2007).
Source: MontrealGazette.com
Date: June 05, 2012
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Description: Mellody Hobson of Ariel Investments talks about her involvement on boards of Groupon, Starbucks and Estee Lauder.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: June 01, 2012
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2012/05/29/f-mellody-hobson.fortune/
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Description: Bloomberg’s Gigi Stone takes a look at recent studies on digital etiquette and the dangers that come along with email and social media. (Source: Bloomberg)
Source: Bloomberg.com – video report
Date: June 01, 2012
Link: http://bloom.bg/LPeh8S
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Description: CEO does not see himself as replacement for Steve Jobs
Source: Marketwatch.com
Date: May 30, 2012
Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apples-cook-says-focus-remains-on-products-2012-05-30?siteid=nwtwk
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