Italian car maker says it could abandon partnership talks with the ailing Detroit company if labor concessions aren’t made.
Source: CNNMoney.com
Date: 4/15/2009
Keys: International business, marketing, government, bankruptcy
Link: http://money.cnn.com
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Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong Koo insisted the revamped Equus luxury sedan meet all regulations in the U.S., where Hyundai’s flagship has never been sold. Now the U.S. unit has to figure out how to sell a car that costs as much as eight times more than its Accent compacts.
Source: Bloomberg News
Date: 4/17/2009
Keys: Marketing, sales, branding, pricing
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com
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Presidential adviser Larry Summers is optimistic for an economic turnaround.
Source: ABCNews – video report
Date: 4/10/2009
Keys: Economic indicators, business cycle, forecasting sales
Link: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7305232
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Transportation stocks have outperformed the broader market lately. That’s a good sign as long as freight shippers say the economy is stabilizing.
Source: CNNMoney.com
Date: 4/10/2009
Keys: Stock market, forecasting, marketing
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/10/markets/thebuzz/index.htm?postversion=2009041012
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Bernard Madoff conned even the most sophisticated of clients, such as Fairfield Greenwich Group, through a simple tactic whenever he was asked probing questions: He refused to answer or he lied..
Source: Bloomberg News
Date: 4/03/2009
Keys: Investing, government, regulation, ethics, law
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&refer=special_report&sid=asYX4sfz1XhY
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YouTube has partnered with Universal Music Group (UMG) to launch a new music video service called Vevo. Under their agreement, YouTube will provide the infrastructure for a new site at Vevo.com, to be populated with video from artists on UMG-owned labels such as Decca, Def Jam, Mercury Records, and Verve. YouTube will also host those videos on its own site, where they’ll be housed in a Vevo channel via an embedded player. The companies will share revenue for ads served on both Vevo and YouTube.
Source: Clickz.com
Date: 4/10/2009
Keys: Marketing, distribution channels, strategic alliances, technology
Link: http://www.clickz.com/3633376
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Research In Motion Ltd.’s (RIMM) shares jumped almost 22% in after-hours trading after the company offered better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and margin guidance.
Source: WSJ
Date: 4/02/2009
Keys: Marketing, technology, finance, stock market
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090402-718397.html
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Markets around the globe — in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York — all staged powerful rallies Thursday on hopeful signs that the world’s biggest economies are committed to working together to end the global recession. At the G-20 summit in London Thursday, world leaders agreed to infuse $1.1 trillion in loans and guarantees to help developing countries, as well as to enforce regulations on financial institutions — all in the name of global economic recovery.
Source: ABCNews
Date: 4/02/2009
Keys: stock market, economics, governments
Link: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7241896&page=1
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Facebook is gearing up to befriend investors. That, at least, is the chatter around Silicon Valley after the social networking darling booted its chief financial officer. But an IPO would be risky given Facebook’s business model is still unproven – unless it has a gun to its head.
Source: WSJ
Date: 4/02/2009
Keys: finance, management, investment, stock market, marketing
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Fortune’s Alex Taylor III says GM’s former CEO didn’t execute needed drastic changes.
Source: CNN – video report
Date: 3/31/2009
Keys: Management , leadership, decision-making, organizational re-structuring, government
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2009/03/31/fortune.sl.taylor.gm.033109.fortune/index.html
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