R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
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Big Data Sparks Corporate Turf Fights
Companies Debate Which Department Should Oversee This Vital Asset
BEN DIPIETRO
March 24,2014
Big data comes with a big internal turf question: Who gets to decide how it’s collected, used, stored and protected? Read more of this post
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Apple in Talks With Comcast About Streaming-TV Service
Companies Discuss Service That Would Try to Bypass Web Congestion
SHALINI RAMACHANDRAN, DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and AMOL SHARMA
March 23, 2014 8:36 p.m. ET
Apple Inc. AAPL +0.79% is in talks with Comcast Corp. CMCSA -1.20% about teaming up for a streaming-television service that would use an Apple set-top box and get special treatment on Comcast’s cables to ensure it bypasses congestion on the Web, people familiar with the matter say. Read more of this post
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Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes
By MATT RICHTELMARCH 23, 2014
A dangerous new form of a powerful stimulant is hitting markets nationwide, for sale by the vial, the gallon and even the barrel. Read more of this post
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At Airports, a Misplaced Faith in Body Language
By JOHN TIERNEYMARCH 23, 2014
Like the rest of us, airport security screeners like to think they can read body language. The Transportation Security Administration has spent some $1 billion training thousands of “behavior detection officers” to look for facial expressions and other nonverbal clues that would identify terrorists. Read more of this post
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Au Revoir, Entrepreneurs
By LIZ ALDERMANMARCH 22, 2014
Guillaume Santacruz, an aspiring French entrepreneur, brushed the rain from his black sweater and skinny jeans and headed down to a cavernous basement inside Campus London, a seven-story hive run by Google in the city’s East End. Read more of this post
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Web Fiction, Serialized and Social
By DAVID STREITFELDMARCH 23, 2014
TORONTO — Not since the heyday of Dickens, Dumas and Henry James has serialized fiction been this big.
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Rwanda Reaches for New Economic Model
By NICHOLAS KULISHMARCH 23, 2014
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When the Scientist Is Also a Philosopher
MARCH 22, 2014
Economic View
By N. GREGORY MANKIW
Do you want to know a dirty little secret of economists who give policy advice? When we do so, we are often speaking not just as economic scientists, but also as political philosophers. Our recommendations are based not only on our understanding of how the world works, but also on our judgments about what makes a good society. Read more of this post
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Birchbox, Seller of Beauty Products, Steps Out From Web With a Store
By HILARY STOUTMARCH 23, 2014
A banner for the hair salon that once occupied these quarters still hangs outside an abandoned West Broadway storefront in the heart of SoHo’s main shopping area in Manhattan. Inside, the 4,500-square-foot duplex space is utterly empty, with no hint of what — if anything — will fill it next. Read more of this post
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Scientists Face Prickly Situation as They Search for the Hairless Kiwi
New Zealand Effort to Grow Smoother Variety Proves Fruitless; ‘Hints of Kerosene’
LUCY CRAYMER
March 23, 2014 10:35 p.m. ET
Kiwis have become a staple in everything from breakfast bowls to juice blends, but they aren’t the easiest food to eat. A New Zealand fruit company, Zespri, is working to create a skinless kiwi. Read more of this post
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Posted : 2014-03-23 13:46
Updated : 2014-03-23 19:19
L’Oreal to boost hairdressing as growth engine
By Sebastien Emond
L’Oreal was created 105 years ago, in 1909 in Paris by Eugene Schueller. Its first business was selling coloration directly to Parisian hairdressers. That is why, from the beginning, the hairdressers and the hair industry were at the heart of L’Oreal. Read more of this post
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Posted : 2014-03-23 17:24
Updated : 2014-03-23 20:01
Lotte embraces English
By Park Ji-won
Lotte Department Store is conducting its first English proficiency contest for teams of executives this month, the retailer said Sunday.
The move reflects its desire to globalize, by training its staff to prepare for its intended overseas expansion and catering to a growing number of foreign customers. Read more of this post
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Posted : 2014-03-23 16:25
Updated : 2014-03-23 19:14
Naver to export webtoons
By Kim Rahn
Korea’s biggest portal site operator is set to export a new genre within the Korean culture ― webtoons.
Naver said Sunday that beginning this year, it will provide foreign-language services for the online comic strips. Read more of this post
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‘Culture creation’ often easier than it looks
STAFF WRITER
MAR 23, 2014
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Updated : 2014-03-23 19:18
Conglomerates expand land purchases
By Kim Rahn
Korea’s top 10 conglomerates owned land worth more than 60 trillion won ($55.5 billion) thanks to their massive investment in real estate amid the prolonged property market slump, a report showed Sunday. Read more of this post
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Being laughed at can help your Japanese evolve
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES
MAR 23, 2014
Students of Japanese are often Japanese-as-a-second-language (JSL) cavemen. JSL cavemen live a mostly pleasant existence of blissful ignorance, using a devolved form of the language as best they can. However, JSL cavemen are not total ignoramuses — their thick hide can be penetrated by awkward social encounters, notably by laughter. Read more of this post
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The innovators: Britain’s economic future relies on seeking out the new
Introducing a new weekly column that will showcase innovation – and the key role it plays in business success
The Guardian, Monday 10 March 2014
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The Raspberry Pi computer – how a bright British idea took flight
Cambridge scientists thought their £30 computer might find 1,000 customers. Two years on, they have shipped 2.5m units
The Guardian, Sunday 9 March 2014 22.31 GMT
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Sugru, the new wonder material: ‘I made a thing like wood, but it bounced’
How odd experiment led to creation of product that has been compared with Blu-Tack and Sellotape in terms of significance
The Guardian, Sunday 16 March 2014 18.40 GMT
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Google, Facebook, Amazon: algorithms will soon rule our lives so we’d better understand how they work
By Jamie Bartlett Tech business Last updated: March 23rd, 2014
One of the most interesting announcements in last week’s Budget – well, for me at least, as someone who has no savings and doesn’t play bingo or drink much – was the new Alan Turing Institute: £220 million of government support will be invested into “big data and algorithm” research. Read more of this post
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Updated: Monday March 24, 2014 MYT 7:29:41 AM
Emerging Europe the new hunting ground for bad loan investors
WARSAW: Central and eastern European countries are turning up the pressure on banks to clean up their balance sheets, creating new opportunities for bad loan investors that are seeing returns dwindle in recovering eurozone economies. Read more of this post
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Myanmar’s Log Export Ban to Hurt Businessmen But Help Forests
By Jared Ferrie on 03:54 pm Mar 23, 2014
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Russia’s Leading Role in the Indonesian Mining Revolution
By Randy Fabi & Fergus Jensen on 10:45 am Mar 24, 2014
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PUBLISHED MARCH 24, 2014
MAS may review sales of yuan investments
JAMIE LEE
[SINGAPORE] Retail deposits make up a small portion of all yuan-denominated deposits here, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), while pointing out that it may review financial institutions’ sales practices for investment products. Read more of this post
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Updated: Monday March 24, 2014 MYT 8:08:52 AM
Investor treaties in trouble
BY MARTIN KHOR
Several countries are reviewing these agreements, prompted by the number of cases brought by foreign companies who claim that changes in government policies affect their future profits.
THE tide is turning against investment treaties that allow foreign investors to take up cases against host governments and claim compensation of up to billions of dollars. Read more of this post
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23 March 2014| last updated at 11:36PM
BMW moves S’pore parts centre to Johor
JOHOR BARU: Carmaker BMW AG will relocate its regional parts distribution centre in Sembawang, Singapore to Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Gelang Patah, Johor in August.
The centre keeps an inventory of parts for BMW sedans, sports activity vehicles and Mini series. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 3:55 am
Indian start-ups tap into mobile payments technology
By Sarah Mishkin in San Francisco and James Crabtree in Mumbai
Good luck finding a local store or delivery person in India who accepts anything but cash. Even in a nation of 1.2bn, fewer than 1m retailers are set up to take a credit card. Read more of this post
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March 23, 2014 5:36 pm
Nasdaq rethinks FinQloud partnership with Amazon
By Arash Massoudi in New York and Barney Jopson in Washington
Nasdaq is re-evaluating a venture based on Amazon’s cloud computing services after a landmark partnership to offer back-office data storage to banks and brokers failed to gain traction with customers. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 12:01 am
Mining companies must step up fight against TB
By Rose Jacobs
Seven years ago, the picture of tuberculosis infection among workers at Anglo American’s coal mines was relatively grim: the incidence rate stood at about 900 people per 100,000 – above the rate for South Africa as a whole at the time, despite the countrywide rate having tripled in the previous decade. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 12:01 am
TB, disease of the poor, now threatens the rich
By Andrew Ward
Its victims have included George Orwell, Frederic Chopin, Franz Kafka, Emily Brontë and Eleanor Roosevelt.
If tuberculosis were still killing such cultural giants, it would not be hard to attract attention and funding to the campaign for its eradication. Read more of this post
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