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Henkel files suit against Formula One team Brawn GP
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German adhesives and soap maker Henkel filed suit last month against Formula One team Brawn GP over an incident in which a former employee signed a €90 million ($132 million) Formula One sponsoring contract without authorisation, according to this article on Reuters today. Henkel rejected on Monday any ...1 day ago -
Still Counting Ways to Infiltrate Daily Lives—Michiko Kakutani reviews Ken Auletta’s Book on Google
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In recent years Google has come under growing scrutiny for a number of controversial moves. Its decision to digitize millions of books — scanning and making them part of search options — upset authors and publishers, who see the plan as a threat to intellectual property rights and as an invitation to piracy, as ...2 days ago -
This week’s Economist: America’s best job creators are being hit by a credit crunch
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It Is basically a second stimulus, though no one wants to call it that. On December 8th President Barack Obama announced a set of proposals to address unemployment and made it clear that he wanted to use some of the unspent TARP funds (money set aside to support failing banks) to help pay for them. No precise figure ...3 days ago -
Google is testing its own phone
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Google Inc. has designed a cellphone it plans to sell directly to consumers as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter. The phone is called the Nexus One and is being manufactured for Google by HTC Corp., these people said. It runs Android, the operating system for mobile phones that Google ...3 days ago -
This Morning’s ‘Meet the Press’ transcript for the Discussion on the Economy
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MR. GREGORY: Governor Romney, why is it that companies are not investing, that theyre not hiring? FMR. GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R-MA): Well, companies are going to hire if theres additional purchases that require them to, to staff up and to beef up and to start their production lines. People have to be buying things. ...3 days ago -
Thomas Friedman—The Do-It-Yourself Economy
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In case you haven’t noticed, the U.S. economy today is actually being hit by two tsunamis at once: The Great Recession and the Great Inflection. The Great Inflection is the mass diffusion of low-cost, high-powered innovation technologies — from hand-held computers to Web sites that offer any imaginable service ...3 days ago -
Agricultural groups call proposed financial tax counterproductive
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Farmers and ranchers use futures contracts as a hedge against price fluctuations, as do elevators that buy and sell grain. Bethany Shively, spokeswoman for the National Cattlemens Beef Association, said such a tax would impact a producers effort to stay in business by buying and selling futures. "Any additional ...6 days ago -
David Brooks: An Innovation Agenda
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The American model remains an impressive growth engine, even allowing for the debt-fueled bubble. The U.S. economy grew by 63 percent between 1991 and 2009, compared with 35 percent for France, 22 percent for Germany and 16 percent for Japan over the same period. In 1975, the U.S. accounted for 26.3 percent of world ...1 week ago -
WSJ: Unemployment Rate Falls to 10%
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U.S. job losses in November posted the smallest drop since the start of the recession and the unemployment rate unexpectedly declined, a sign the labor market is finally healing as the economy recovers. Nonfarm payrolls fell by just 11,000 last month, slowing down from a downwardly revised 111,000 drop seen in ...1 week ago -
Rhodias huge windfall from emission cuts
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Its no laughing matter, but youve got to be impressed by Rhodias ability to claim €158m in ebidta from certified emission reductions (CERs) in 2008, compared to the €142m in profit from its nylon business. Rhodia described the gains as "an unexpected boost to cashflow", according to an article in ...1 week ago -
David Byrne leaves Shell
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I was shocked to hear that my old friend David Byrne had been made redundant from Shell. I knew him as Shells styrene business manager when I used to report on the European styrene market, but the job which has been cut is that of Manager, Operations Excellence , based in Houston. Canadian national ...2 weeks ago -
Steve Salerno: Can America afford the ‘vanity tax’?
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However, that pricey pendant most assuredly does serve as a symbol of an unfortunate quirk in American buying habits. We are a nation that specializes in producing and consuming items that have little purpose except to facilitate extravagance, and its a proclivity that hardly begins or ends with jewelry . Millions of ...2 weeks ago -
Houston bling at Platts
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I was the recipient of some gracious and unexpected hospitality at the Canary Wharf, London offices of our arch-competitor Platts on Monday. So in return, the Blog is pleased to keep a long-outstanding promise to feature a photo of Platts Houstons most flamboyant dresser, Ihsan Rahim, sporting his legendary diamante ...2 weeks ago -
News Corp. Weighs an Exclusive Alliance With Bing
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This is not how business has been done on the World Wide Web. Microsoft has been in early discussions with the News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, about a pact to pay the News Corporation to remove links to its news content from Google’s search engine and display them exclusively ...3 weeks ago -
The Gloves come off at Amazon & Wal-Mart
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Ali had Frazier. Coke has Pepsi. The Yankees have the Red Sox. Now Wal-Mart, the mightiest retail giant in history, may have met its own worthy adversary: Amazon.com. In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, the two heavyweight retailers are waging an online price ...3 weeks ago -
Laura Vanderkam: Give thanks for job creators
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Kimberly Martinez has a history of finding success in disaster. After she lost her job in 2002, she and her sister-in-law capitalized on the post-9/11 security craze to launch a business called Bonitas International, which sells ID badge jewelry. People snapped up the fancy BooJeeBeads lanyards, and revenue rose fast, ...4 weeks ago -
Swine flu kept at bay by common cold
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Swine flu may have been halted in its tracks by the rise of a common cold virus, according to an article in this weeks New Scientist . Research in the US, France and Sweden has shown that rhinovirus, which causes colds, was on the rise just as the number of swine flu cases began to plateau in October. ...4 weeks ago -
Showing off on LinkedIn
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A weekly LinkedIn Network Update has just landed in the Blog inbox, showing how industrious all my contacts have been in joining groups, connecting with each other, updating their profiles, linking to news articles, reading books, updating their status, and planning their trips via TripIt. The ...4 weeks ago -
Newsweek: Is America Losing Its Mojo?
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We cannot stop the world from rising and doing better at innovation, nor should we want to do so: the rise of the rest is a powerful, positive phenomenon for everyone. But America must adapt to it, not watch quietly as a spectator. For the past three decades, funding for science research has slipped, the education ...4 weeks ago
