Description: New Harvard research provides the strongest evidence to date that eating nuts can reduce a person’s risk of dying from cancer, heart disease, and a number of other causes. Source: BostonGlobe.com Date: Nov 21, 2013 Link: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/11/21/harvard-study-provides-best-evidence-yet-that-nuts-may-reduce-risk-death/FqFAZ56vPl4ATN70UXRmzJ/story.html Questions for Discussions: What does the research data actually suggest about people who eat nuts? How might… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Part 1 Business in a Global Environment
The Golden Age of Watching Other People Play Video Games
Description: It’s too soon to know whether Microsoft (MSFT) or Sony (SNE) will emerge victorious from this round of the great video-game console wars, but it may not be premature to name the real winner: Twitch.tv. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Nov 22, 2013 Link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-22/the-golden-age-of-watching-other-people-play-video-games#r=hp-ls Questions for Discussions: How is this development another step into social media? Who… Read more »
How Candy Crush took off
Description: ‘Games Guru’ Tommy Palm from U.K. based King talks about why Candy Crush Saga is so popular and how the mobile game brings in so much cash. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Nov 15, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/11/15/t-candy-crush-saga-king-tommy-palm-mobile-games.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: Describe the business model? Why would players be motivated to “pay” at higher… Read more »
In a Bean, a Boon to Biotech
Description: A new federal push to purge artery-clogging trans fats from foods could be just what the doctor ordered — not only for public health but for the unpopular biotechnology industry, specifically, two developers of genetically modified crops. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Nov 15, 2013 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/business/in-a-bean-a-boon-to-biotech.html?ref=business&_r=0 Questions for discussion: What are the potential benefits to… Read more »
5 sites teens flock to instead of Facebook
Description: Where America’s youth go online to avoid Mom and Dad Source: MarketWatch.com Date: Nov 08, 2013 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/04871c4c-48ac-11e3-adc2-00212803fad6/stitch?storyguid=dc726f12-427b-11e3-8d5d-00212803fad6&siteid=nwtwk Questions for Discussions: What makes these sites more appealing to teens than to older people? What are the characteristics about online teen behavior that becomes evident from the designs of these sites?
Super Cheap Tablets
Description: Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930:KS) built big tablet businesses by appealing to early adopters with money to burn. Lenovo (992:HK) and other companies are working on sub-$100 tablets aimed at the lower end of the market. But starting next year it may be tough to compete on price with the Aakash 4, a 7-inch Android… Read more »
NYSE CEO on Twitter IPO and Facebook
Description: CEO of NYSE Euronext Duncan Niederauer discusses the smooth Twitter IPO and how the New York Stock Exchange is listing more technology stocks. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Nov 06, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2013/11/07/n-nyse-ceo-twitter-ipo.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: What service did the NYSE provide to investors and Twitter on the first day of trading? What… Read more »
Toms’ new marketplace: More than just shoes
Description: Entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie discusses Toms Shoes’ ‘One for One’ program which gives free shoes to a poor children for every pair sold at retail and the company’s new digital marketplace. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Nov 08, 2013 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2013/11/08/n-toms-shoes-blake-mycoskie.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: Describe the new business model? What are the critical characteristics… Read more »
A Founder of Twitter Goes Long
Description: Between downtown San Francisco and the new Twitter offices six city blocks to the west, things get sketchy. There is a strip club, a budget motel with weekly rates and, on the gentrified edge of this no-man’s land, the offices of Medium, the new venture of Evan Williams, one of Twitter’s co-founders. Source: NYTimes.com… Read more »
5 sites teens flock to instead of Facebook
Description: Where America’s youth go online to avoid Mom and Dad Source: MarketWatch.com Date: Nov 08, 2013 Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/04871c4c-48ac-11e3-adc2-00212803fad6/stitch?storyguid=dc726f12-427b-11e3-8d5d-00212803fad6&siteid=nwtwk Questions for Discussions: What makes these sites more appealing to teens? What are the characteristics about online teen behavior that becomes evident from the designs of these sites?
