steve hamm a senior writer at business week worries about the nations diminishing role as a world leader. over the past eight years the united states has lost a tremendous amount of influence on the world. the bush administrations stance on global warming its bullying style the war in iraq and lack of leadership on fair trade have left the country as an outlier in the global community of nations ...
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spores designers have also baked in a sense of wit and humor something sorely lacking in many games. initiating a mating sequence in the creature level for example the characters launch into a kitsch dance to a tongueincheek bossa nova soundtrack. in civilization as creatures begin to become more sophisticated a short sequence parodies stanley kubricks famous simian scene in 2001 a space odyssey. ...
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really interesting to read this article in businessweek. it tells the tale of unilever the massive company that brings us such staple items as vaseline it seems unilever is realising that the college graduates theyre trying to attract simply cannot function within a rigidly lockeddown it infrastructure where outsidethefirewall im social networking sites and the like are banned. it reminds me of a ...
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filed under microsoft msft yahoo yhoo apple inc aapl dell dell mcdonalds mcd halliburton hal johnson and johnson jnj money and finance today altria group mo boeing co ba charles schwab corp schw research in motion rimm oracle corp orcl qualcomm inc qcom genentech inc dna mexico freept mcmoran copper fcx garmin ltd grmnin the news stocks plunge yesterday will they extend losses today world market...
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by andrew gillenthe first thing i didnt know yesterday was that it is sometimes possible for individuals to have the officers that direct university endowments mange their investments as well. felix salmon points out here but the background is here and here with the help of anne tergesen various schemes by which they do this. he concludestheres a good reason for these options being largely under...
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u.s. highway fund crushed by cutback in driving new york cnnmoney.com an unprecedented decline in driving will deplete the federal highway trust fund by the end of september prompting the government to ask congress for an 8 billion emergency infusion friday. gasoline sales are crucial to maintaining the nations highway infrastructure. about 90 of the funds total revenues comes from taxes on m...
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...ng games were popular in the u.s. and europe. to sweeten the deal square enix president yoichi wada pledged to preserve the tecmo brand. he gave tecmos management a week to think it over. kenji hall businesswe ek.com whe n i read this excerpt there are two things which leap out at me and make me feel quite uneasy. firstly square enix have a huge following all over the world and this is actual...
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busy little bee aint shelol the sarah palin digest thinkprogress has put together a document compiling what we know about alaska gov. sarah palin r sen. john mccains raz vice presidential running mate. here are the issues on foreign policy palin hasnt given the war in iraq much thought. palin told the alaska business monthly ive been so focused on state government i havent really f...
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...with editing software so theres a piece of a question before my two questions then a couple more from other reporters. 1994 fleer ultra xmenread more digg story......
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filed under products and services apple inc aapl at and t t when apple inc. nasdaq aapl released the iphone 3g back in july little did it know most likely that the device would have issues worldwide connecting to 3g networks causing consumer frustration on a level weve rarely seen with any apple product. well some consumers have apparently given up and theyre moving back to the older slower origin...
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the austin tech happy hour on thursday september 11th will be one you wont want to miss. author and businessweek writer sarah lacy will be signing her new book and seedstage.tv will be filming their premier episode. at the door it will be 10 but there are early bird tickets available right now for 5. there are only a handful left however. if you cant make it well be republishing the twitters of re...
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business schools are experiencing the secondlargest surge in application volume since 2002 according to the most recent research out of the granduate management admissions council gmac which administers the gmat exam. gmacs 2008 application trends survey reveals that 77 percent of business schools surveyed reported an increase in application volume this year up from 64 percent in 2007. the jump re...
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as you mightve heard by now an unfinished draft of midnight sun the fifth teenagevampire novel from twilight author stephenie meyer leaked to the internet last week. in a statement on her website meyer declared herself too sad to continue work on the book and said she was putting its completion on hold indefinitely breaking the hearts of millions of fans and even more barnes noble stockholders. t...
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filed under products and services apple inc aapl at and t twhen apple inc. nasdaq aapl released the iphone 3g back in july little did it know most likely that the device would have issues worldwide connecting to 3g networks causing consumer frustration on a level weve rarely seen with any apple product. well some consumers have apparently given up and theyre moving back to the older slower origina...
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gulf coast faces sea levelsinkage double whammy hurricane gustav has been a harsh reminder that its only the whim of a hurricane track a few miles this way or that which can make the difference between a close call and another katrinalike catastrophe for new orleans and other gulf coast communitie s. with the onetwo punch being delivered by sinking land and rising sea levels and with every h...
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after a few quarters of nonchalant statements that the subprime mortgage crisis and rising oil prices werent going to affect the tech stocks the bloom is off the rose. the lowered sales forecasts and lackluster quarters are trickling in and the trend for wireless companies is clear. this morning networking equipment maker ciena said in its earnings release that it expected lowered sales for the co...
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over at businessweek i was asked to share my thoughts on the initial launch of google chrome. i try to debunk any talk that google chrome is an attempt to replace your operating system and also tackle whether google can steal market share from internet explorer or firefox. heres an extract it should come as little surprise that google is entering the web browser market. the search heavyweight alr...
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st. paul the most common headline or lead for stories about alaska gov. sarah palins speech last night was that she electrified the arena. watching from our perch in the rafters we have to agree palin sent the energy in the excel center through the roof. for all the attacks from liberal media commentators this week palin proved to the nation that when it comes to the most important issue in this ...
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earlier this week microsoft announced that it would cut xbox 360 prices in japan by 30 in an attempt to bolster their abysmal sales. sales in japan folks not here so calm yourselves. it looks like they have not forgot about their home nation. starting on friday microsoft will slash the prices on all three versions of its consoles. yay the xbox 360 arcade will fall to 199 booting the wii out of its...
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dapras business week designing the future of business divaguant racemment sur quelques pages obscures du web je tombai en pamoison sur quelques lignes bien tournaes de business week consacraes au design et a son influence sur la stratagie dun business. et aussitat c.a.d. 15 jours plus tard il me prit a mon tour lenvie de dablatarer sur le sujet appliqua au ecommerce et a ceux qui se lancent en...
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according to caseschiller our local housing prices were down 7.3 over the past year. you can read the report three page pdf here. they reported that nashville was an area that saw some growth as did quite a few of the places they studied . one of the keys to growth instead of no growth or loss is economic growth or stability i.e. jobs. i cant help but think how allowing tax credits for the film in...
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viabusiness weekby building mathematical models of its own employees ibm aims to improve productivity and automate management by stephen baker businessweeks 2006 cover story math will rock your world announced a new age of numbers. with the rise of new networks the story argued all of us were channeling the details of our lives into vast databases. every creditcard purchase every cellphone call ...
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baseline magazines software as a service survey of more than 250 cios reveals increased momentum for saas hr applications floating at the clevel hrbenefits applications are most likely to be implemented. 72 got up and running within the timeframe they expected. 43 have been using saas for three years or more. 65 say that saas has lowered software costs. total cost of operation with saasas op...
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one of the the biggest selling points of nintendos wii video game console since its launch nearly two years ago has been that it was the lowestpriced of the trio of nextgeneration machines which also includes microsofts xbox 360 and sonys playstation 3. to date the wii costs 249 while the lowestpriced xbox the socalled arcade retails currently for 279. an 80gb ps3 sells for 400. but microsoft sa...
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