by Chip Krakoff Foxconn International Holdings, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronic components, made notorious last year by a rash of employee suicides at its Chinese factories, recently published its half-yearly financial results, which showed that its annual labor costs per...
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So, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is offering to mediate some kind of peace for Muammar Qaddafi and Libya . That’s a bit like Ben Bernanke offering up a plan to fight inflation. Stocks are poised to rally on the news and oil prices are dropping. Gold is even looking to reverse course. Now, it's...
One could argue that true genius in business is more about giving consumers things they don’t even know they want than about giving them what they want or say they want. I remember the first time I saw the Apple iPod. I went online immediately and ordered one, even though in those dark ages I had...