R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
April 16, 2014 Leave a comment
Apple, Samsung Prize the Fight
DAN GALLAGHER
April 1, 2014 3:36 p.m. ET
Apple AAPL +0.91% and Samsung are again squaring off in the legal ring. It may be time to shake hands and call it a draw. Read more of this post
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Dubai Rides Boom With an Eye on Bubble
Some Voice Concern About a Repeat of 2009
NICOLAS PARASIE
April 1, 2014 7:23 p.m. ET
Last year, when Emaar Properties put a new Dubai residential project on the market, demand was so intense that police eventually had to intervene to control the chaos outside the company’s offices. Read more of this post
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Improving Audit Reports Is Focus of Hearing
MICHAEL RAPOPORT
April 1, 2014 8:28 p.m. ET
U.S. regulators this week will resume a yearslong quest to get audit firms to tell investors more about the companies they examine. It won’t be easy. Read more of this post
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Amazon Will Now Allow Returns Using Lockers
Amazon.com has quietly rolled out a new service to let customers return unwanted merchandise using large metal lockers it has installed for deliveries in garages, convenience and grocery stores in major metropolitan areas. Read more of this post
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The Hottest Corporate Fad: Pay CEOs to Find Successors
Intel, EMC, Avnet, Terex Reward Leaders for Preparing to Pass the Baton
JOANN S. LUBLIN
No one likes giving up the power, privileges and perks of the corner office. So, some boards have begun paying chief executives extra to replace themselves. Read more of this post
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Windows XP: Old Platforms Die Hard, Security Risks Live On
Utilities, Banks Have Been Slow to Upgrade Machines, ATMs
RACHAEL KING and DANNY YADRON
Some 300 million computers, including many that manage water, electric and sewage treatment plants and ATMs, will soon be left unprotected from new security threats. Read more of this post
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29 MINS AGOBUSINESS
Manufacturers Scale Back Australia Operations
Just two months after Toyota Motor Corp.–the last major carmaker in Australia–announced plans to pack up, oil giant BP PLC and cigarette-maker Philip Morris International Inc. said they were also scaling back their Australian operations. Read more of this post
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Kakao Records Tenfold 2013 Profit Rise Amid IPO Preparations
JONATHAN CHENG and MIN-JEONG LEE
SEOUL—Kakao Corp., maker of South Korea’s dominant mobile messaging service, said its earnings grew more than tenfold last year, offering a potential business model for social platforms like WhatsApp Inc., as investors question whether such companies can turn their swelling user bases into profits. Read more of this post
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NSF suicide: Lapses more widespread than thought
Monday, April 14, 2014 – 07:00
Ronald Loh
The New Paper
SINGAPORE – A Coroner’s Inquiry into a full-time national serviceman’s suicide last July found that his army unit had lapses in managing his schizophrenia. Read more of this post
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Apr 12, 2014
IMF Introduces ‘Spillbacks’ Into Lexicon of Global Finance Officials
The world’s premier financial counselor is trying to coin a new word for finance ministers and central bankers: “spillbacks.” Read more of this post
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Vietnam’s FPT Aims to Fill IT Skills Gap
FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh Talks About the Demand for Outsourcing, Plan to Form Ties With Top Tech Firms
NGUYEN PHAM MUOI
April 13, 2014 2:36 p.m. ET
HANOI—As businesses across the world seek to reduce technology costs by outsourcing, FPT Corp. Chairman Truong Gia Binh believes his company, and Vietnam, are perfectly placed to meet demand for computer scientists. Read more of this post
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Splintered Indonesia Election Results Could Block Economic Reform
National Democratic Party Pledges Support for Democratic Party of Struggle
I MADE SENTANABen Otto and
April 13, 2014 5:52 a.m. ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia—The splintered parliament and the coalition government likely to result from Indonesia’s legislative elections this week dim chances for quick and sweeping reforms of Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Read more of this post
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Using Free Wi-Fi to Connect Africa’s Unconnected
Kenya’s Safaricom Outfits City Buses, Rural Markets to Get Consumers Hooked on Mobile Internet
HEIDI VOGT
Updated April 13, 2014 4:52 p.m. ET
NAIROBI, Kenya—As young pitchmen shout to potential passengers over blaring music, a graffiti-covered private minibus fills up more quickly than the other dozen in the scrum. It has free Wi-Fi. Read more of this post
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Superannuation: Retirees poorly served by system, says Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research
April 13, 2014 – 11:57PM
So poorly are retirees served by the super system that Australia’s leading longevity research organisation is suggesting the government step in and offer policies of its own through Australia Post. Read more of this post
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Hong Kong’s Family-Owned Banks on Different Paths for Now
ENDA CURRAN
April 1, 2014 7:12 a.m. ET
Two of Hong Kong’s three remaining family-owned banks are taking divergent paths. As one banking dynasty sells out, another is raising capital to grow its bank, signaling that it has no intention to sell for now. Read more of this post
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India’s Top Court Orders Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee to Surrender
Mr. Lee Given Six Weeks to Appear Before Court in Uttar Pradesh
R. JAI KRISHNA
April 2, 2014 5:04 a.m. ET Read more of this post
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Apr 1, 2014
Huawei Founder: Company Is Like BMW
When people hear about China’s Huawei Technologies, German car maker BMWBMW.XE +1.38% probably never comes to mind. Read more of this post
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Southwest Airlines, Once a Brassy Upstart, Is Showing Its Age
Carrier Copes With Labor Strife, High Costs; Some Pine for Days of Co-Founder Herb Kelleher
JACK NICAS and SUSAN CAREY
April 1, 2014 10:38 p.m. ET
CHICAGO—At Midway Airport here on Jan. 2, Southwest Airlines Co. LUV +1.40%canceled a third of its flights, lost 7,500 bags and, at one point, had 66 aircraft on the ground—about twice as many as the carrier has gates. Passengers were stuck on the tarmac late into the night. Read more of this post
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Chinese Investors Change Face of Dubai
Investment by Individual Chinese Investors Nearly Tripled Last Year
RORY JONES
Updated April 1, 2014 7:06 p.m. ET
About 15 miles from the Burj Khalifa on the edge of the Arabian desert is a growing housing and retail community that would look more at home in Beijing than Dubai: Stores and restaurants have Chinese signs and a huge dragon sculpture adorns the Dragon Mart shopping mall. Read more of this post
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Airline Industry Warms to Costly Real-Time Tracking After Flight 370
ANDY PASZTOR and JON OSTROWER
Updated April 2, 2014 12:25 a.m. ET
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU 0.00% Flight 370 is prompting leaders of the global airline industry to warm up to a safety measure they long have resisted as too expensive: real-time satellite tracking of practically all airliners. Read more of this post
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