A robotic pill? The drawbacks for diabetics

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A robotic pill? The drawbacks for diabetics

March 5, 2014: 8:50 AM ET

Drugmakers are developing a needle-less way to deliver insulin to patients, but that’s likely a long way from hitting the market.

By Gerald Bernstein

FORTUNE — A recent article in the Wall Street Journal provided a fascinating description of arobotic pill designed to replace injectable drugs like insulin that are used to treat chronic conditions like diabetes. Read more of this post

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Organic Food Set to Become a Big Market In Indonesia, Food Expert Says

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Organic Food Set to Become a Big Market In Indonesia, Food Expert Says

By Vanesha Manuturi on 10:23 pm March 4, 2014.
Jakarta. The founder of the World Gourmet Summit has said he believes organic produce will be the next big trend in Indonesia’s food and beverage business. Read more of this post

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“People make bad choices if they’re mad, or scared, or stressed. Throw a little love their way, and you’ll bring out their best.”

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At Disney, a Celebration That Was a Long Time Coming

By BROOKS BARNESMARCH 4, 2014

BURBANK, Calif. — The gathering at Walt Disney Animation here was supposed to be a giddy celebration. The studio had achieved the ultimate validation for its hard-fought creative rebirth: “Frozen,” its Nordic tale of two sisters and a wisecracking snowman, won two Oscars on Sunday, the same day the film crossed $1 billion at the global box office. Read more of this post

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Redouble efforts to transform SMEs in Singapore, says Tharman

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Redouble efforts to transform SMEs in Singapore, says Tharman

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Efforts to transform small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore have to be redoubled in the next decade, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam in Parliament on Wednesday. Read more of this post

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A Genetic Entrepreneur Sets His Sights on Aging and Death; J. Craig Venter is the latest wealthy entrepreneur to think he can cheat aging and death. And he hopes to do so by resorting to his first love: sequencing genomes.

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A Genetic Entrepreneur Sets His Sights on Aging and Death

By ANDREW POLLACKMARCH 4, 2014

J. Craig Venter is the latest wealthy entrepreneur to think he can cheat aging and death. And he hopes to do so by resorting to his first love: sequencing genomes. Read more of this post

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Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits; A number of multinational corporations have recently blamed turmoil in emerging markets for dents in their bottom lines

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Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits

By LANDON THOMAS Jr.MARCH 4, 2014

When it comes to investing in emerging markets, few companies have been as gung-ho as Diageo, the British maker of the Guinness, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff brands. But now that troubles are cropping up in many such countries around the world, Diageo has turned from cheerleader to excuse-monger. Read more of this post

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Fraud Within Companies Is A Risk That Can Never Be Eliminated, Just Managed

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Fraud Within Companies Is A Risk That Can Never Be Eliminated, Just Managed

THE ECONOMIST STRATEGY  MAR. 5, 2014, 2:50 AM

Business has always been plagued by fraud: witness the South Sea Company in the 1710s (which enveloped the British economy in a giant bubble) or Charles Ponzi’s Securities Exchange Company in 1920 (which gave the world the Ponzi scheme) or the Enron and WorldCom scandals in the early 2000s. Read more of this post

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A powerful new way to manipulate DNA Unusual DNA sequences found in bacterium part of sophisticated immune system to fight viruses

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A powerful new way to manipulate DNA

March 5, 2014 – 7:32AM

Andrew Pollack

In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they were studying in a common bacterium. They mentioned them in the final paragraph of a paper: “The biological significance of these sequences is not known.” Read more of this post

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‘Avatar’ could care for elderly in future; An intelligent “avatar” which would detect whether people are in pain and alert the emergency services could help the elderly remain independent and in their own homes

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‘Avatar’ could care for elderly in future

March 4, 2014

London: An intelligent “avatar” which would detect whether people are in pain and alert the emergency services could help the elderly remain independent and in their own homes. Read more of this post

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India’s gold industry to strike in protest over crackdown

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March 4, 2014 10:40 am

India’s gold industry to strike in protest over crackdown

By Avantika Chilkoti in Mumbai

India’s gold industry is planning a one-day strike next week in protest over government efforts to control smuggling, as moves to curb imports fuel illicit trade in the world’s second-largest market for gold. Read more of this post

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Migrants set up one in seven UK companies, study reveals

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March 4, 2014 6:40 pm

Migrants set up one in seven UK companies, study reveals

By Jonathan Moules, Enterprise Correspondent

Migrant entrepreneurs have created one in every seven UK companies, according to the first comprehensive analysis of official data about founder origins. Read more of this post

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Why my alma mater Oxford will struggle; While old names often have assets and tradition on their side, they also have baggage

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March 4, 2014 4:48 pm

Why my alma mater Oxford will struggle

By Luke Johnson

While old names often have assets and tradition on their side, they also have baggage

Iused to believe it was better to restore existing organisations than build new ones from scratch. It always seemed that their resources, goodwill and momentum were a safer bet than the risks of creating something modern. Now I am not so sure. Read more of this post

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Return on equity and Soviet tractor production

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Return on equity and Soviet tractor production

March 4, 2014 3:07 pmby Andrew Smithers

The financial information published by companies has become increasingly bogus in recent years, because of the huge incentive for modern management to produce highly volatile profits. This has been helped by the increased flexibility allowed with the change from “mark to cost” to “mark to market”. Read more of this post

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High-end hoodies unmask reality of Asean’s ‘promise’; Doing business in the region means bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality

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March 4, 2014 5:00 pm

High-end hoodies unmask reality of Asean’s ‘promise’

By Jeremy Grant

Doing business in the region means bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality

If you are a garment manufacturer and want to sell your upmarket hooded sweatshirt in Indonesia, you are probably on to a good thing. Read more of this post

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The Asian work ethic comes at a price; Modern Chinese are increasingly worried about being pushed too hard

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March 4, 2014 3:54 pm

The Asian work ethic comes at a price

By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai

Modern Chinese are increasingly worried about being pushed too hard, writes Patti Waldmeir

China’s state media recently reported that 600,000 mainlanders die every year from working too hard. Taken at face value, that would mean that 600,000 people a year face the same fate as may have befallen Moritz Erhardt, the Bank of America intern whose death in London last summer – possibly caused by overwork – triggered an industry-wide crisis of conscience over whether western bankers need to be more slothful. Read more of this post

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The human progress economists miss; The steady accumulation of knowledge is important but sudden advances matter most

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March 4, 2014 4:30 pm

The startling human progress that economists fail to see

By John Kay

The steady accumulation of knowledge is important but sudden advances matter most

The ancient Greek runner Phidippides conveyed with his dying breath the news that the Persians had been defeated at Marathon. We do not know how long it took him to complete the course to Athens or even whether his epic journey actually occurred. We do know that the winner of the first modern marathon, at the Olympic Games of 1896, completed the course in just under three hours. Read more of this post

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There is no easy path to democracy: The basic needs are true citizens, honest guardians, proper markets and just laws

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March 4, 2014 6:38 pm

There is no easy path to democracy

By Martin Wolf

The basic needs are true citizens, honest guardians, proper markets and just laws

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Could Ukraine become a stable liberal democracy? The answer to this question has to be: yes. Will Ukraine become a stable liberal democracy? The answer to that is: we do not know. We do know that other countries have reached the destination. But we also know that universal suffrage democracy is a delicate plant, particularly in its early years. What has happened to young democracies in, say, Egypt, Thailand, Russia and Ukraine underlines that truth. Democracy is delicate because it is a complex and, in crucial respects, unnatural game. Read more of this post

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Italian finance: Time to modernise; ‘Stress tests’ will count for little until the vast network of local banks is overhauled and governance reformed

March 9, 2014 1 Comment

March 4, 2014 6:57 pm

Italian finance: Time to modernise

By Rachel Sanderson

‘Stress tests’ will count for little until the vast network of local banks is overhauled and governance reformed

As the tourist season was heating up last summer in the southern Italian region of Puglia, officials from the Bank of Italy seized control of a small co-operative bank in Alberobello, the sun-baked town known for its whitewashed trulli houses. Read more of this post

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How to Reverse the Graying of Scientific Research; Dramatically fewer grants are going to young scientists. That’s a cause for alarm

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How to Reverse the Graying of Scientific Research

Dramatically fewer grants are going to young scientists. That’s a cause for alarm.

RONALD J. DANIELS And PAUL ROTHMAN

March 4, 2014 7:08 p.m. ET

Youth will be served, as the saying goes, but increasingly that’s not the case in scientific research. The National Institutes of Health reports that between 1980 and 2012, the share of all research funding going to scientists under age 35 declined to 1.3%, from 5.6%. During the same period, the number of NIH awards going to scientists age 35 and under declined more than 40%, even as the total number of awards more than doubled. Read more of this post

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The Computer Mouse Still Roars; Like the Madonna of Peripherals, the Mouse keeps Reinventing Itself: The Picks, Pros and Cons

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The Computer Mouse Still Roars

Like the Madonna of Peripherals, the Mouse keeps Reinventing Itself: The Picks, Pros and Cons

GEOFFREY A. FOWLER

Updated March 4, 2014 8:22 p.m. ET

Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler thought he could ditch his mouse and go with a touchier interface. Boy, was he wrong. Read more of this post

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Brazil Drought Jolts Commodities’ Prices; Coffee, Sugar and Soybeans See Sharp Increases

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Brazil Drought Jolts Commodities’ Prices

Coffee, Sugar and Soybeans See Sharp Increases

ALEXANDRA WEXLER, JEFFREY T. LEWIS and LESLIE JOSEPHS

Updated March 4, 2014 7:27 p.m. ET

SÃO PAULO, Brazil—Brazil’s worst drought in decades is decimating crops but breathing new life into battered commodity markets. Read more of this post

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CEOs Scramble to Sell Themselves When Looking for a New Job

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CEOs Scramble to Sell Themselves When Looking for a New Job

RACHEL FEINTZEIG

March 4, 2014 7:41 p.m. ET

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Ravi Saligram, formerly CEO of OfficeMax, at the desk in his home office in Naperville, Ill., last month. Rob Hart for The Wall Street Journal Read more of this post

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Hyundai Scion Eyes Seoul Mayoral Bid

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March 4, 2014, 2:30 PM

Hyundai Scion Eyes Seoul Mayoral Bid

By Kwanwoo Jun

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Chung Mong-joon, Hyundai conglomerate scion and former presidential challenger, announced this weekend that he plans to run for Seoul mayor. Read more of this post

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New Cloud-Software Firms Take Off

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New Cloud-Software Firms Take Off

SPENCER E. ANTE

Updated March 4, 2014 7:53 p.m. ET

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Salesforce.com Inc. CRM +2.57% pioneered the cloud-software business and is valued at almost $40 billion. Now a second wave of more specialized online software companies is starting to take off and command rich multibillion-dollar valuations that may be hard to sustain. Read more of this post

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Wearable Devices Getting More Niche

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Mar 4, 2014

Wearable Devices Getting More Niche

EVA DOU

Wearable devices have always been a niche accessory, appealing to the techy and fitness-conscious set. Now as the sector takes off, consumers can expect a wave of even more specific fitness trackers as new competitors try to grab a piece of the market. Read more of this post

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Baidu CEO Calls for More Regulation of Online Funds

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Baidu CEO Calls for More Regulation of Online Funds

PAUL MOZUR

March 3, 2014 11:56 p.m. ET

BEIJING— Baidu Inc. BIDU +1.57% Chief Executive Robin Li has joined the chorus of Chinese government advisers and banking executives calling for more regulation of the country’s quickly growing Internet finance industry. Read more of this post

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Australia Jumps on U.S. IPO Bandwagon via China

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Australia Jumps on U.S. IPO Bandwagon via China

Australian Companies Favor U.S. Listings for Their Chinese Businesses

DANIEL STACEY

March 4, 2014 5:39 a.m. ET

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Australian companies are increasingly carving out their Chinese businesses for U.S. initial public offerings, but unlike many IPO aspirants, raising cash isn’t the motivating factor. Read more of this post

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Moutai Wins Wealthy Chinese Fans

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Mar 4, 2014

Moutai Wins Wealthy Chinese Fans

Chao Deng

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Kweichow Moutai Co.600519.SH +0.65%, the company known for its intoxicating brew of the same name,  is getting a  boost from a new group of consumers: private wealthy buyers. Read more of this post

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Chinese Car Maker Giant SAIC Is Entering the Country Amid Slumping Car Sales and Political Unrest

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Chinese Car Maker Faces Roadblocks in Thailand

SAIC Is Entering the Country Amid Slumping Car Sales and Political Unrest

KATHY CHU, NOPPARAT CHAICHALEARMMONGKOL and COLUM MURPHY

March 4, 2014 3:39 p.m. ET

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SAIC Motor-CP boss Wu Huan isn’t sure ‘who the real customers of our MG are.’ SAIC Motor-CP

BANGKOK—When SAIC Motor Corp. 600104.SH -1.30% announced plans to make cars in Thailand by 2014, it was seen as a significant move by the Chinese auto industry to secure a foothold in Southeast Asia’s largest manufacturing hub. Read more of this post

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China Corporate Bond Market Likely to See First Default; Shanghai Chaori Solar Unable to Repay All Interest Due on a Bond Friday

March 8, 2014 Leave a comment

China Corporate Bond Market Likely to See First Default

Shanghai Chaori Solar Unable to Repay All Interest Due on a Bond Friday

LINGLING WEI and WAYNE MA

Updated March 4, 2014 7:02 p.m. ET

BEIJING—A Chinese solar company said it won’t be able to repay investors all the interest due on a bond Friday in what may be the first ever default in China’s $1.5 trillion publicly traded corporate bond market. Read more of this post

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