Category: Business
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Plagiarism costs Raytheon CEO dearly
Some months ago, I ordered a copy of “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management,” a free book by William Swanson, the CEO of US military contractor Raytheon Company, from the company’s website. It hasn’t arrived yet and it now looks as…
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Six Apart outage caused by stupidity
If you have a TypePad blog, you will definitely know about the denial of service attack on Six Apart‘s servers earlier this week, when access to TypePad blogs (as well as other Six Apart services such as LiveJournal) was down…
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The meaning of corporate governance
The Summit for The Future on Risk conference starts today in Amsterdam and runs until Friday. I’ll be there this afternoon and Thursday morning, participating in the corporate governance knowledge stream. Should be a stimulating session with plenty to talk…
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Blackberry future in doubt again
“Blackberry saved” was a common theme of news reporting in March after Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the ubiquitous Blackberry wireless phone/email device, came to a $612 million settlement in its legal battle defending a claim for patent infringement.…
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Stock blogs network launched by AOL/Weblogs
AOL/Weblogs has launched a set of eight blogs that will include commentary and opinion about the stock of eight listed US companies – Apple, eBay, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Time-Warner, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo. If you want to read about all…