Description: When you place a colleague or a new hire into a management position, you’d better not abandon the poor soul.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: 04/19/2011
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/apr2011/ca2011044_047640.htm
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Description: BASEL, Switzerland  Nick Hayek, the chief executive of the Swatch Group, is facing a problem many of his corporate counterparts might envy: he’s doing too much business.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 04/22/2011
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/business/global/23swatch.html?ref=business
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Description: A record processing plant in Brooklyn, N.Y. is seeing business grow as sales of vinyl records outpace digital albums.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 04/15/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/smallbusiness/2011/04/15/sbiz_vinyl_comeback.cnnmoney/
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Description: Zipcar is set to price its shares and debut under the ticker “ZIP,” garnering much of the attention in a busy week for IPOs. How will the auto-rental firm fare in this high gas-price environment? Stacey Delo talks to MarketWatch’s Dan Gallagher.
Source: Marketwatch.com – video report
Date: 04/11/2011
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Description: This interview with Mark Fuller, C.E.O. (which stands for chief excellence officer) of WET Design, was conducted and condensed byAdam Bryant.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 04/16/2011
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/business/17corner.html?_r=1&ref=business
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Description: Amazon.com is slashing $25 off the price of a new Wi-Fi-only Kindle electronic reader. The catch: to get a Kindle for a new low price of a $114, you must purchase a version with sponsored screensaver ads and special offers. In all other respects, the new Kindle is identical to the Kindle now selling for $139. The only difference: Ads replace illustrations of classic authors like Virginia Woolf and Jules Verne that appear on current Kindle screensavers.
Source: USAToday.com
Date: 04/11/2011
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2011-04-11-amazon-kindle-ads.htm
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Description: World markets are frothing like shaken Champagne, and doomsayers argue that today’s bubbles need to be deflated now before they get dangerously large.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: 04/14/2011
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4225058281366.htm
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Description: Toyota President Akio Toyoda says that the Microsoft partnership will help the consumer have a ‘dialogue’ with her car.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 04/07/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/04/07/n_toyota_microsoft_toyoda.cnnmoney/
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Description:  Shares of Expeida surge after the travel site says it will split into two companies, one for TripAdvisor and one for Expedia.com, hotels.com and hotwire.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 04/08/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2011/04/08/mkts_expedia_0408.cnnmoney/
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Description: A wide-ranging government investigation of corrupt overseas marketing practices by drug and device makers scored its first major victory Friday when Johnson & Johnson admitted bribing European doctors and agreed to pay $70 million in civil and criminal fines.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 04/08/2011
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/business/09drug.html?ref=business
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