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Twitter Now Worth $4 Billion |
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Author :Ben Parr
Source :Mashable
Twitter’s market
value has
reached $4 billion just a month
after it raised $200 million in
funding.
According to SharesPost, a
secondary market for buying and
selling stock in privately held
companies, Twitter‘s value has
jumped to $4 billion, based on
recent transactions.
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Better, Faster, Customizable:
Who Will Win the Browser Battle?
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Author :David Hsu
Source
:wharton
In the world of web browsers,
it's beginning to look a lot
like the 1990s. Back then, the
Internet was just starting to
become an integral part of daily
life and Netscape's Navigator
and Microsoft's Internet
Explorer vied for dominance in
helping users surf the web.
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Floriculture:
Global Business is Blooming
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Author:
Source:
Knowledge@Emory
Floriculture, a $40 billion global
business, is engaged in the struggle to
transform something “natural and
unspoiled” into a mass produced,
transportable product, says Amy Stewart,
bestselling author of Flower
Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the
Beautiful in the Business of Flowers.
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Driving Adobe: Co-founder Charles
Geschke on Challenges...
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Author: John Warnock.
Source:
Wharton
In 2007, Adobe Systems marked its 25th
anniversary, a relatively long tenure
for a company that sells personal
computer software, an industry barely
more than 30 years old.
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Fresh Off Its IPO, Can GM Stage a
Comeback?
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Author: John Paul MacDuffie
Source:
Wharton
After years of
declining market share and
unprofitability -- and a multi-million
dollar bailout by the United States
government -- General Motors is once
again a publicly held company. The
automaker, which raised some $20 billion
through last week's initial public
offering, is on sounder footing than it
has been in years and is expected to
turn a profit in 2010.
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Facebook Launches Group-Buying Prototype
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Author: Lauren Indvik
Source:
Mashable
Facebook is
currently testing a new feature called
“Buy With Friends,” which allows users
to get discounts on virtual goods
purchased by their friends.
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Global Trade in a Post-recession World
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Author:
Source: Wharton
When the world economy nearly collapsed
in late 2008, many proponents of
globalization feared that a contagion of
protectionism would break out, poisoning
the prospects for new trade initiatives
that could provide long-term benefits
for both companies and consumers.
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India as a U.S. Trading Partner: Far
Beyond BPO
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Author:
Source:Wharton
President Obama's visit to India in
November was a welcome opportunity for
both the United States and India to
focus on the positive aspects of their
economic relationship.
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Fashion or Strategy? Why Firms Are
Jumping on the Sustainability Bandwagon
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Author:
Source: Wharton
If building a sustainable enterprise was
a fashionable trend five years ago,
today it is a business imperative.
Forward-looking corporations have
figured out that a focus on
environmental,
social and governmental (ESG)
factors is not just a bid to burnish
their image, but rather it is a
necessity in today's marketplace.
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Is Facebook’s New Credibility Score A
Popularity Contest?
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Author: Suzanne Vara
Source: socialmediatoday
Facebook
is finally going to unveil the bigger
and better new version of their social
commenting plugin. The new now old
version was updated in October and gave
us the ability to vote up or down a
comment.
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Facebook Launches Deals Page on Site
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Author:
Lauren Indvik
Source: Mashable
Want to access nearby Facebook Deals
using your web browser? Now you can,
thanks to Facebook’s new “Find Deals on
Facebook” page.
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Is Business-centric Social Networking a
Revolution -or a Ruse?
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Author:
Source:
Wharton
Programs like Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn have become a popular way for
families and groups of friends (or
groups of strangers) to share
information and organize their lives.
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