Posts Tagged with employees

eBay CEO Focuses on Businesses and Consumers

No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]

Filed under: Business, News on September 15th, 2009 @ 10:44 am

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Brand Identity in the Age of Social Media

Whether or not you agree with the comments made by Whole Foods’ co-founder and CEO John Mackey in a recent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on the state of US healthcare, the resulting consumer backlash raises interesting questions around establishing and maintaining brand identity in an era of increasing engagement and transparency.
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Sprint Looks for Green Makeover

Since its merger with Nextel back in 2005, Sprint has steadily been losing ground to Verizon and AT&T, lagging behind in innovation both with its product and service offerings. But over the past year plus, the company has made attempts to right the ship, building out its network reliability, adding an iPhone competitor in the [...]

Facebook Acquires Friendfeed, What Do They Get?

In a move that quickly swept across the media landscape, Facebook announced that it had acquired Friendfeed, a single platform for receiving updates from more than 60 Web sites, including Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, for an undisclosed sum. The deal comes at a time when Facebook wants to leverage its audience of 250 million active [...]

Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 11th, 2009 @ 11:30 am

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Recessionomics: Succeeding During and Beyond the Downturn

Burying your head in the sand, particularly during a crisis, is never a strategy that is recommended in the world of business, as now more than ever, companies are forced to be creative and forward-thinking in the face of economic hardships. And not only is it possible to survive a recession, but thrive during one [...]

Filed under: Business, News on July 17th, 2009 @ 3:14 pm

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Maintaining a Healthy Work Environment

In the midst of an economic recession, it’s easy to focus on the bigger issues – skyrocketing costs, company closings and unemployment rates – while losing sight of the details closest to home. However, the internal health of an organization should never be overlooked, as it’s ultimately people who make companies. Several recent articles from Inc.com help [...]

Filed under: News on July 8th, 2009 @ 3:23 pm

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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.

As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.