Months of perfect winter sunshine without a single winter storm. Crocuses opening in January and daffodils in bloom by February. Spring, at a time when we are all typically still hunkered by the space heater, cursing ourselves for our failure to live in Tahiti. Yes, it's been a generous winter. But even as March springs ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

Confirming a report yesterday in the Israeli newspaper Globes, Avaya this morning said it has agreed to acquire Radvision, a Tel Aviv-based provider of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies, for $111.85 a share in cash, or $230 million overall. The deal ie expected to close within 90 days assuming completion of typical closing conditions. Over the ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

He cared deeply, lived carelessly, and couldn't care less, and he died in the same obscurity into which he was born.Yet he remains the greatest leader and most remarkable man I have ever met. Everything that is best in me I owe largely to him.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

If you are, you?re probably not alone. If not, many of you colleagues or employees probably are. Many years ago, while living in Japan, I remember one small town pretty much shut down during the Little League National Championships. Every small business on main street had a TV and employees, business owners and customers were ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:20

Hong Kong billionaire Lui Che Woo announced Thursday that Galaxy Entertainment Group?s profit tripled last year to 3 billion Hong Kong dollars ($387 million). Lui?s net worth rose to $5.7 billion on the latest World Billionaire List, due in large part to Galaxy?s share price that surged nearly 77% over the past year. The casino ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 13:23

In a surprise move, Shire Pharmaceuticals has ended its bid for FDA approval for its Replagal biologic for treating Fabry disease, a rare, but life-threatening genetic disorder. The move comes less than two months after the FDA approved a manufacturing plant operated by Genzyme, which experienced shortages of its own medication for the past two years and is now trying to restoring regular supplies.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 13:23

The Market for Lemons is one of the great economics papers of the past few decades. So good that it gained George Akerlof, its writer, a share of the Nobel Prize. The essential point is about information asymmetry. The seller of a used car knows much more about the quality of that car than does ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 12:52

Yet another FINRA failure to supervise case demonstrates the need to overhaul Wall Street's regulatory and compliance structure. Time to go lean, mean and local says regulatory reform advocate Bill Singer.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 12:52

Elite political purges are increasingly rare in China. The last high-level scalp was a Shanghai party chief ousted for corruption in 2006. Now it?s the turn of Bo Xilai, party secretary of mega-municipality Chongqing and a contender for a top slot in the leadership later this year. No longer: Bo is out of a job. ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 12:41

The famous line "What we got here is failure to communicate" underscores one of the CMO's biggest challenges: internal alignment with marketing. After my post on "5 Roles of Successful CMOs", a kind reader mentioned there could possibly be a sixth role added to the list: business linguist. I was intrigued by the thought and ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 12:00