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• Happy Birthday, Ronald!

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 549
  | Peter Klein | Happy Birthday to Ronald Coase, 99 years young today. Live long and prosper ! Posted in New Institutional Economics, People, Theory of the Firm
  15 hours ago

• Entrepreneurship and Action

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 549
  | Peter Klein | A few entrepreneurship scholars see action under uncertainty, rather than perception of opportunity, as the essence of the entrepreneurial function. Really, really eminent scholars . Anyway, here’s a little etymological tidbit along these lines from Jesús Huerta de Soto’s book The Austrian ...
  1 day ago

• HP camera ‘can’t see’ black faces

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  A video comparing a webcam’s facial recognition response to a white woman and a black man is a YouTube hit. Read more from the original source: HP camera ‘can’t see’ black faces
  5 days ago

• Eurostar starts to bring angry passengers home (AFP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 471
  AFP – Packed Eurostar trains began to haul thousands of angry passengers between Paris, Brussels and London on Tuesday… Read more from the original source: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Eurostar starts to bring angry passengers home (AFP)
  1 week ago

• Etisalat launches new iPhone pricing (AME Info)

  
  The Gadget News — Authority: 163
  UAE telecoms services provider, Etisalat has launched new price plans and packages for the latest iPhone 3GS, launched in the emirates in October. With the new plans, customers will get cheaper SMS, voice and data packages, the firm said in a statement. See the original post: Etisalat launches new iPhone pricing ...
  1 week ago

• Disney Organizational Chart, circa 1943

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 549
  | Peter Klein | This week’s passing of Roy Disney has brought forth some interesting discussion of the firm founded by his uncle Walt and father Roy. Check out this Disney organizational chart from 1943 (click to enlarge), courtesy of design site @issue . Unlike the typical corporate hierarchy, writes Delphine ...
  1 week ago

• (AFX UK Focus) 2009-12-17 11:34 RUSAL may refinance $4.5 bln VEB loan - Ifax (Interactive Investor)

  
  REFINANCE-BLOG.INFO — Authority: 155
  MOSCOW, December seventeen (Reuters) - UC RUSAL might refinance a $4.5 billion debt to state bank VEB with a blurb bank, Interfax headlines group cited an unclear source as observant upon Thursday, a pierce which would transparent an barrier to a firm’s programmed IPO. “Prices have been high.
  1 week ago

• Wind Mobile Launches Barely A Week After Industry Canada Decision

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 511
  AHN Staff Toronto, Ontario, Canada (AHN) - Globalive Holdings launched on Wednesday its Wind Mobile service, barely a week after the Industry Ministry reversed a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decision, which said the firm is majority foreign owned. To outpace its competitors - now tightly ...
  1 week ago

• RUSAL may refinance $4.5 bln VEB loan - Ifax (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

  
  REFINANCE-BLOG.INFO — Authority: 155
  MOSCOW, December seventeen (Reuters) - UC RUSAL might refinance a $4.5 billion debt to state bank VEB with a blurb bank, Interfax headlines group cited an unclear source as observant upon Thursday, a pierce which would transparent an barrier to a firm’s programmed IPO.
  1 week ago

• RUSAL may refinance $4.5 bln VEB loan - Ifax (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)

  
  REFINANCE-BLOG.INFO — Authority: 155
  MOSCOW, December seventeen (Reuters) - UC RUSAL might refinance a $4.5 billion debt to state bank VEB with a blurb bank, Interfax headlines group cited an unclear source as observant upon Thursday, a pierce which would transparent an barrier to a firm’s programmed IPO.
  1 week ago

• CFP: “Contracts, Procurement, and Public-Private Arrangements”

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 549
  | Peter Klein | It’s 14-15 June 2010 in Paris . Submissions are due 15 February. Stéphane Saussier is organizing, so you know it will be good. From the CFP: This conference focuses on the recent developments in contract theories. Papers are invited on all topics of contract theories including: relational ...
  1 week ago

• ioXtreme PCI Express SSDs Anticipate SATA 6 Gb/s Performance

  
  ModCool — Authority: 157
  Fusion-io has produced enterprise-class flash-based SSDs since 2007. View original post here:  ioXtreme PCI Express SSDs Anticipate SATA 6 Gb/s Performance
  1 week ago

• “This Paper Fills a Much-Needed Gap in the Literature”: Today’s Edition

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 549
  | Peter Klein | I was thumbing through the MDE issue containing Lasse and Nicolai’s paper when this sentence caught my eye: “Despite the widespread use of the production frontier approach to assess the efficiency of firms, there are no studies on ski lift operators.” OK, I actually like the paper, “Are ...
  1 week ago

• CIA Drops Blackwater Contract To Load Bombs On Drones

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 511
  Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The CIA will no longer pursue a contract to load bombs on drones with controversial security firm Blackwater, now renamed Xe
  2 weeks ago

• Nokia to launch new music phone model (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  Reuters - The worlds largest mobile phone maker Nokia is preparing to launch a new music-bundled phone, photos from the firms website showed on Friday.
  2 weeks ago

• Nokia to launch new music phone model (Reuters)

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 164
  Reuters – The world’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia is preparing to launch a new music-bundled phone, photos from the firm’s website showed on Friday. See the original post here: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Nokia to launch new music phone model (Reuters)
  2 weeks ago

• Tiger Woods drama a boost for Yahoo!: Bartz (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AFP - Online fascination with the apparent infidelities of golf idol Tiger Woods has been a boon for Yahoo!, the firms blunt-talking chief executive Carol Bartz said Tuesday.
  2 weeks ago

• Williamson Nobel Lecture Is Streaming Now

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 549
  | Peter Klein | Watch it here . Money quotes so far: After questioning the design of the Department of Homeland Security: “The US has a Council of Economic Advisers; I look forward to the day when there’s also a Council of Organizational Advisers” [paraphrase]. “That brings us to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Becker and Posner on Williamson and Organizational Economics

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 549
  | Peter Klein | Ruminations on the field of organizational economics from Becker and Posner . Both are inspired by Williamson’s Nobel but neither discusses his contributions very directly. Posner’s comment, the longer of the two, describes some of his own work ( with Luis Garicano ) on public organizations. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Middle Eastern Stocks Decline As Dubai Starts Talks With Creditors …

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 155
  Melvin Baker - AHN Reporter Dubai , UAE (AHN) - Stocks throughout the Middle East took a beating on Monday as Dubai officials began meeting with creditors over the country’s debt problems. One report said the government may have to sell … Read the rest here: Middle Eastern Stocks Decline As Dubai Starts Talks ...
  3 weeks ago

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