An executive from Hong Kong?s largest property developer has been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged bribery. Thomas Chan Kui-Yuen from Sun Hung Kai Properties was taken into custody by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Monday, according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Sun Hung Kai said Chan?s ...
pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 09:05
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Lawsuit Claims Siri Doesn't Know What She's Talking About
In a complaint??filed on March 6 (available on Scribd via the WSJ?s Law Blog), a New York man alleges that the assistant Apple squeezed into his iPhone 4S does not work as advertised. Frank Fazio is suing Apple in a California federal court seeking restitution and damages, and not at all surprisingly is hoping to ...
pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 08:16
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Ray Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 Were Mostly Inaccurate
Picard Settlement with the Wilpons in the Madoff Collapse Does Nothing for Mets fans. The team is broke and this reduced settlement will do nothing to change that.
pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 05:42
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Help Wanted: IT Software Firms Ratchet Up Sales Hiring
Looking for work? You might want to consider enterprise software sales. Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne observes in a research note that a ?steadier demand environment? has spurred a clear-cut rise in open software sales positions. Materne says the aggregate number of postings for sales jobs on 23 software company websites in the latest week ...
The e-mail from Warren Buffett was brief, to the point and hand-written; "Bob- Ajit remains publicity-shy. He's smarter than his boss- Warren."
Honesty from the Oracle of Omaha; a wise shyness from my long-held feeling that Ajit Jain, the 59 year old genius insurance executive, will someday become the next CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 05:34
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The Myth of Social Media Tactics Versus the Reality of Social Business Strategies
Three "facts" about social business are accepted without question by most people. That any business with a Facebook page or Twitter account is considered "social"; that hiring a social media person constitutes a social "presence"; that implementing an intranet transforms the organization into a "collaborative" enterprise. Now that I've used up my allocation of quotation ...