R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
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2013-12-09 16:32
Hyundai Elevator vs. Schindler
Partners become enemies following Hyundai’s capital increase plan
By Kim Rahn
They used to be partners.
Hyundai Elevator and Schindler Holding AG used to maintain friendly relations. Now they are growling at each other ㅡ the former claims the latter is attempting to take it over, while the latter denounces the former’s alleged poor management. Read more of this post
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December 9, 2013
Spies’ Dragnet Reaches a Playing Field of Elves and Trolls
World of Spycraft: One of the most extraordinary things revealed in the documents disclosed by Edward J. Snowden is the surveillance of video games like World of Warcraft by Western spy agencies.
By MARK MAZZETTI and JUSTIN ELLIOTT
Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents. Read more of this post
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‘Apple Has A Real Problem’ – Supposedly, It’s Losing Talented Engineers
NICHOLAS CARLSON0DEC 9, 2013, 11.21 PM
In the past few days, Apple spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying two startups – Topsy, a Twitter search engine, and PrimeSense, which the makes motion-sensing tech behind gadgets like Microsoft Kinect. On the most recent episode of Marco Arment’s Accidental Tech Podcast, close Apple watchers Casey Liss, and John Siracusa tried to figure out why Apple bought those startups. Read more of this post
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DECEMBER 8, 2013, 11:00 AM
Disruptions: At Your Door in Minutes, Delivered by Robot
By NICK BILTON
Raise your hand if you get this whole Amazon drone thing.
By now the next bright idea from Jeff Bezos — that tiny drones will one day be whizzing overhead and dropping Amazon packages at America’s doorsteps — has gone through a few turns of the spin cycle. For many, it sounds like a sci-fi fantasy wrapped in public relations hype, or a total nightmare. Maybe both. Read more of this post
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Before Amazon’s Drones Come the Robots
Retailer Begins Integrating Acquisition of Kiva’s Automated Warehouse Systems
GREG BENSINGER
Dec. 8, 2013 7:32 p.m. ET
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN +0.64% received a lot of news coverage for its sci-fi drone-delivery idea last week. But an immediate robotics effort under way in the Seattle retailer’s warehouses could save the company more than $900 million a year, according to an analyst. Read more of this post
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Getting Too Worked Up by Workday
DAN GALLAGHER
Updated Dec. 8, 2013 8:30 p.m. ET
Workday WDAY -0.46% looks set to be a $1 billion business. Unfortunately, the stock has already priced that in, and then some. Workday is often referred to as “PeopleSoft on the cloud,” as most of its top executives came from the maker of human resource management software that OracleORCL +1.81% acquired in 2005. Workday has been adding customers at a rapid pace, as more businesses look to shift their software needs to cloud-computing solutions. Read more of this post
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How Snapchat’s First Investor Found Snapchat Before Anyone Else
ALYSON SHONTELL0DEC 9, 2013, 01.49 AM
Jeremy Liew is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who found hot startups like Snapchat and Whisper before everyone else.
It’s a good thing Jeremy Liew met Barack Obama. In March 2012, Liew’s Facebook profile picture was of himself and the President. He didn’t know it at the time, but that picture would help him land a crucial early stage investment. Read more of this post
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Redfin Real-Estate Firm Gets Cold Shoulder in Silicon Valley
How Online Company Is Overcoming Tech VCs ‘People Problem’
FARHAD MANJOO
Updated Dec. 8, 2013 4:47 p.m. ET
“I used to think I was this made man,” says entrepreneur Glenn Kelman. “That’s what they tell you after you take a company public.” In 1996 Mr. Kelman co-founded Plumtree, a business-software firm that went public in 2002. After that, he assumed that his next idea was as good as paid for. Read more of this post
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December 7, 2013
There’s Power in All Those User Reviews
By MATT RICHTEL
You are no longer the sucker you used to be.
So suggests continuing research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business into the challenges marketers face in reaching consumers in the digital age. As you might suspect, the research shows that a wealth of online product information and user reviews is causing a fundamental shift in how consumers make decisions. Read more of this post
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Tracking Technology Sheds Light on Shopper Habits
Mall Operators, Retailers Monitor Patterns and Actions
ELIZABETH DWOSKIN And GREG BENSINGER
Dec. 8, 2013 8:12 p.m. ET
At San Francisco’s Sunhee Moon shop, a heat map places red and orange hues where shoppers gravitated. Prism Skylabs (2)
This holiday season, Santa will have extra helpers at the mall: devices that track shoppers. Read more of this post
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High-Tech Commodity Testing Advances
LESLIE JOSEPHS
Updated Dec. 8, 2013 7:41 p.m. ET
Jesse Curlee is on a mission to stamp out textile trickery, one strand of DNA at a time. As president of Supima, the three-decade veteran of the textile industry is tasked with ensuring that the brand of premium U.S.-grown cotton touted on labels, such as those on Brooks Brothers and L.L. Bean shirts, is legit. Read more of this post
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Want To Build An App And Strike It Rich? Don’t Use Any Of These Terrible Ideas
RYAN BUSHEY0DEC 7, 2013, 07.16 PM
“There’s an app for that” was a statement that Apple trademarked in 2009 as they began the rollout for the iPhone 3G. Today, that declaration is very true. Weather trackers, travel planners anddating apps are just a small selection of the applications available. They cover every possible demographic and audience in order to cater to their various needs. Read more of this post
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Why Twitter Is A Huge Threat To YouTube
JIM EDWARDS0DEC 6, 2013, 07.39 PM
Google ought to be very afraid of the threat Twitter presents to YouTube, I was told recently over lunch with James Borow, CEO of SHIFT, a social media marketing company. (SHIFT is one of Twitter’s early advertising partners, and its clients include American Express, Toyota and Walmart.) Read more of this post
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Thai Leader Yingluck Shinawatra Says Instability May Drag On
Prime Minister Is Under Pressure as Demonstrators Plan Fresh Rallies
JAMES HOOKWAY
Dec. 7, 2013 7:32 a.m. ET
BANGKOK— Yingluck Shinawatra still looks the part of Thailand’s prime minister. Perched on a chair at the Venetian-Gothic government headquarters in Bangkok, she counts off her successes since thousands of opposition protesters last month launched a campaign to unseat her—chief of which is that she is still prime minister. Read more of this post
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December 9, 2013, 11:53 a.m. ET
Thailand’s Revolution
The opposition has become fanatical and self-deluded.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved Thailand’s Parliament Monday and announced that she would lead the ruling Puea Thai Party into elections in early February. This is a prudent move to pull the circuit-breaker on protests aimed at replacing the elected government with a “people’s council.” Earlier this month rioters provoked clashes that left at least three people dead, while the government won international praise for its restraint. Read more of this post
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Rare Riot Hits Singapore
Fatal Road Accident Angers Foreign Workers
CHUN HAN WONG and ESTHER FUNG
Updated Dec. 8, 2013 6:22 p.m. ET
SINGAPORE—A crowd of about 400 foreign workers, angered by a fatal road accident, set fire to vehicles and attacked police and emergency services workers late Sunday in Singapore’s ethnic Indian district, injuring at least 18 people in a rare riot in the city-state. Read more of this post
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Why Disney keeps buying all your favorite childhood icons
By Jason Lynch 9 hours ago
Luke Skywalker. Princess Leia. Kermit the Frog. Miss Piggy. Spider-Man. The Incredible Hulk. Buzz Lightyear. And now, Indiana Jones. Together, they represent the defining characters and pop culture childhood memories of millions, if not billions. And in the past decade, they’ve all been snapped up by the Walt Disney Company. Read more of this post
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Why Canada and the U.S. Should Merge, Eh?
It’s past time for the two countries to eliminate their border
DIANE FRANCIS
Dec. 6, 2013 5:51 p.m. ET
When Americans think about Canada—and that doesn’t happen often—they usually think of us as the nice, predictable guy next door who never plays his stereo too loud. Even Rob Ford, Toronto’s ranting, crack-smoking mayor, has barely dented our squeaky-clean image. Read more of this post
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Watchdog warns of chaos in competing derivatives rules
5:57am EST
By Huw Jones
LONDON (Reuters) – Failure to thrash out a common supervision of the $640 trillion global financial derivatives industry will split markets and bump up costs for end users, a top regulator said on Monday. Read more of this post
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‘Upstairs’ Trading Draws More Big Investors
Big Players Change Tactics in a Fragmented Market
BRADLEY HOPE
Dec. 8, 2013 6:02 p.m. ET
Some of the world’s biggest investors are changing the way they trade in U.S. markets in response to what they say are rising risks for institutions of their size. The strategies include conducting more “upstairs trades,” in which deals are executed among big institutions, bypassing the broader market, as well as other sophisticated order-routing techniques designed to avoid pitfalls that have become increasingly apparent to investment managers. Read more of this post
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December 9, 2013 5:13 pm
The west is losing faith in its own future
By Gideon Rachman
Living standards are even under pressure in countries that have done relatively well
What defines the west? American and European politicians like to talk about values and institutions. But for billions of people around the world, the crucial point is simpler and easier to grasp. The west is the part of the world where even ordinary people live comfortably. That is the dream that makes illegal immigrants risk their lives, trying to get into Europe or the US. Read more of this post
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December 9, 2013
The Poor Are Squeezed as Rental Housing Demand Soars
By ANNIE LOWREY
WASHINGTON — Violeta Torres cannot afford her apartment. Ms. Torres, a 54-year-old nanny, pays $828 a month for a rundown one-bedroom that she keeps spotlessly clean, making the rent by letting an acquaintance sleep on a mattress in the living room for about $400 a month. But her one-bedroom happens to be in the booming neighborhood of Columbia Heights, where such an apartment, once renovated, would easily command twice the price. Read more of this post
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Dec 6, 2013
Sky-High Stocks: A Split Decision?
Stock splits have gone Splitsville.
So far this year, only 11 companies in the S&P 500 index have “split” their shares—the fourth-lowest number on record and down from an average of nearly 65 a year in the 1990s, according to Howard Silverblatt, a senior analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. In a stock split, a company increases the number of shares you hold while lowering the price accordingly. A 2-for-1 split, for instance, would turn one share of a $100 stock into two shares worth $50 apiece. Read more of this post
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In Bankruptcy, Detroit Curses the Darkness
Nearly Half City’s 88,000 Lights Are Broken; New Authority Plans to Borrow Funds to Revamp System
MATTHEW DOLAN
Dec. 8, 2013 6:50 p.m. ET
Almost half of the 88,000 streetlights in Detroit are out. And the bankrpt city is desperate to raise funds to repair them. WSJ’s Matthew Dolan reports.
DETROIT—On Harper Avenue, along a busy but dimly lighted commercial strip of shops and corner bars, James Jennings checked one street lamp after another, searching for one he could fix. Read more of this post
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Updated: Monday December 9, 2013 MYT 10:07:36 AM
Challenging time ahead with no all plain sailing for REITs
PETALING JAYA: Although local real estate investment trust (REIT) players can breathe a sigh of relief as they have been spared from the rather tough budget measures on the property sector, the coast is not all clear for the 16 REITS just yet. Read more of this post
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Borders Raise Hurdles For Baltic High-Speed Rail Link
Snags to Fast-Train Project Underscore Challenges to EU Rail Push to Boost Growth
FRANCES ROBINSON And LIIS KÄNGSEPP
Dec. 8, 2013 7:39 p.m. ET
TALLINN, Estonia—A high-speed rail project linking the three Baltic states embodies the economic hopes the European Union has placed on the fast-train technology. It also exemplifies one of high-speed’s biggest hurdles: national borders. Read more of this post
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From Robbers to Vendors, Swedes Brace for Cashless Future
By Anna-Karin Lampou on 2:27 pm December 8, 2013.
vendor selling ‘Situation’, a Stockholm paper sold by the homeless to help raise funds, wears a sign reading ‘we take cards’ on Oct. 23, 2013 in Stockholm. (AFP Photo/Anna-Karin Lampou)
Stockholm. Peter, 55 years old and homeless, is standing at a Stockholm supermarket, carrying the two objects that help him make a living: a stack of magazines and a debit card reader. Read more of this post
December 8, 2013 Leave a comment
Simplifiers and Optimizers, by Dilbert creator Scott Adams
By Scott Adams at 4:40 pm Mon, Dec 2, 2013
Some people are what I call simplifiers and some are optimizers. A simplifier will prefer the easy way to accomplish a task, while knowing that some amount of extra effort might have produced a better outcome. An optimizer looks for the very best solution even if the extra complexity increases the odds of unexpected problems. I have a bias for simplification, but surely there are situations in which optimizing is the better play. So how do you know which approach works best in a given situation? Read more of this post
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A Day in the Life of James Dyson
British inventor and industrial designer James Dyson radically reinvents the familiar
ALICIA KIRBY
Dec. 5, 2013 12:23 p.m. ET
Dyson examines a prototype of the DC41 Animal vacuum cleaner with a team of his engineers. He has a famously young workforce cherry-picked straight from school. Photography by Ben Roberts for WSJ. Magazine
JAMES DYSON IS BEST KNOWN as the man who made vacuum cleaners sexy. In 1993, the Norfolk native launched the DC01, the world’s first bagless cleaner with cyclone technology, which lets users ogle their dirt as it’s sucked into the machine. Read more of this post
December 8, 2013 Leave a comment
5 Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela
by Big Fish Presentations on Jul 11, 2013
We’d like to take a break on presentation techniques and share with our viewers a slideshow featuring leadership lessons from former South African President Nelson Mandela.
Transcript Below:
1.) “A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
2.) “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
3.) “Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.”
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
4.) “Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”
“Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world.”
5.) “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.”
咬定青山不放松，立根原在破岩中。 千磨万击还坚劲，任尔东西南北风。
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