Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Sitting in his sun-soaked office at Tiffany & Co.'s Manhattan headquarters, chairman and chief executive officer Michael J. Kowalski reminded me of Breakfast at Tiffany's. In the 1962 classic, Audrey Hepburn coos over Tiffany's 5th Avenue flagship store, "Nothing very bad could happen to you there." It's a ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
Regulators on Friday closed a small bank in Nebraska and another in Utah, bringing to 87 the number of bank failures in the U.S. this year. The number of closures has fallen sharply this year as banks have worked their way through the bad debt accumulated in the recession. By ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Swedish Automotive has reached an agreement to sell its struggling Saab unit to two Chinese companies, in a bargain-basement deal to try to save a company thats nearly out of business. Chinese distributor Pang Da Automobile Trade and auto manufacturer Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile will pay just €100 million, or ...
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
Back to Watchlist The perfect tool to help you manage and track your investments. A crew from Alpha Oil & Gas Services Inc. constructs a 10 inch gas pipeline outside of Watford City, North Dakota, U.S. The productive Bakken formation ...
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
Organizations that understand and embrace the concepts of gamification design can help drive innovation in their companies, says Mario Herger Technology Strategist & Community Manager at SAP Labs. Herger took attendees at the GreenBiz Innovation Forum through a series of "quests" -- giving Angry Birds dolls as rewards ...
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