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September 19, 2011
For LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, the latest technology boom hopefully won't turn out to be a bust.
September 19, 2011
Recently, I interviewed Dr. David Kilcullen, founding CEO and President of Caerus Associates, specializing in designing for positive human impact in complex environments. He has substantial experience designing, implementing and evaluating rural and peri-urban security and development systems in conflict-affected areas, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Bougainville, and Papua New Guinea. Drawing on this deep experience, Dr. Kilcullen leads Caerus efforts to promote the design of integrated distributed energy systems that strengthen community resiliencies, improve economic absorptive capacity, and promote stability.
September 19, 2011
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced in a blog post Sunday that the company plans to re-brand its DVD-by-mail service as Qwikster, while continuing to use the original name for its streaming video offering.
September 19, 2011
U.K. Business Secretary Vince Cable is set to announce proposals to prevent chief executives from receiving excessive salaries that don't reflect performance, saying he wants to call time on payouts for failure.
September 19, 2011
Recently, I interviewed Martin Burt, founder and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, an NGO devoted to the promotion of entrepreneurship among the world’s poor. A pioneer in microfinances and youth financial literacy in Paraguay, Burt developed one of...
September 19, 2011
Recently, I interviewed Gerald Chertavian, Founder and CEO of Year Up. After the sale of Conduit Communications, a company he co-founded in 1993, Gerald combined his entrepreneurial skills and his passion for working with urban young adults to cre...
September 19, 2011
For LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, the latest technology boom hopefully won't turn out to be a bust.
September 19, 2011
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been savaged in the United States for cheating on his taxes (you can buy a T-shirt to commemorate his tax dodging), but he's becoming a punch line in the rest of the world for different reasons.
September 19, 2011
U.K. Business Secretary Vince Cable is set to announce proposals to prevent chief executives from receiving excessive salaries that don't reflect performance, saying he wants to call time on payouts for failure.
September 19, 2011
For more than five years, Chinese Internet companies enjoyed an easy fast ride into US exchanges, cashing in on the US investor fever and fascination with China’s enormous economic potential; and sending the stocks of these companies soaring: Baidu Inc (NASDAQ:BIDU), up 1000 percent; and Sohu.com (NASDAQ:SOHU), Netease (NASDAQ: NTES0, and Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) up 300 percent. Recently, the ride has turned bumpy, however, as new IPOs haven’t been fared that well, as Renren Inc (NYSE:RENN), E-Commerce China (NYSE:DANG), and Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) declined in price soon after they made their debut to US Exchanges.
September 18, 2011
AP - Under intense pressure from lenders to honor its deficit-cutting targets and with a forthcoming installment of its bailout package still up in the air, Greece has decided to adhere to another tax measure it sprang on a weary public last week.
September 18, 2011
It's said that tomorrow President Obama will suggest a "Buffett Tax". A provision in the tax code that makes sure that billionaires like Warren Buffett don't end up paying lower average tax rates then their secretaries.
President Barack Obama, in a populist gesture designed to appeal to voters, will propose a "Buffett Tax" on people making more than $1 million a year as part of his deficit recommendations to Congress on Monday.
September 18, 2011
GENEVA — Oswald Gruebel, the chief executive of UBS, has dismissed calls for his resignation as politically motivated, even as the Swiss banking giant raised its rogue trading loss to $2.3 billion.
UBS AG had previously put the loss at $2 billion when news of the scandal first broke Thursday.
In a bid to reassure investors, the Zurich-based bank said Sunday it has “now covered the risk resulting from the unauthorized trading” and its equities business “is again operating normally within its previously defined risk limits.”
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September 18, 2011
Reuters - U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy Co is talks with shareholders about the future of its stores in Britain, the Sunday Express reported.
September 18, 2011
Reuters - U.S. electronics retailer Best Buy Co is talks with shareholders about the future of its stores in Britain, the Sunday Express reported.
September 18, 2011
Reuters - Wall Street hopes for more Fed action and clear signs European leaders will follow through on their new urgency to tackle the euro zone debt crisis if U.S. stocks are to build on their best week since early July.
September 18, 2011
J&J's insistence it would enforce a noncompete pact and keep a senior executive from joining Boston Scientific as CEO led to an employment agreement with unusual terms.
September 18, 2011
J&J's insistence it would enforce a noncompete pact and keep a senior executive from joining Boston Scientific as CEO led to an employment agreement with unusual terms.
September 18, 2011
Seven states, including New York and California, have joined the Justice Department's lawsuit seeking to block AT&T's $39 billion proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
September 17, 2011
European officials ended a two-day meeting in Poland without making any substantial decisions on the status of a proposed second round of aid to Greece.