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...Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne wants to use the Italian carmaker's technology to sharpen the focus of the Chrysler brands, insiders say. For example, Fiat's technology could allow Chrysler to build a reputation for high performance - not something it's known for today. The new technology could also augment Chrysler's traditional strength in four-wheel-drive, sport utility and truck segments, which are under pressure from rising fuel prices...
...turning e-mails into faxs, phone messages or stamped letters - media senior citizens already understand - so that users can keep in touch on their own terms. "My dad doesn't feel capable of managing e-mail, but I live in front of my computer," says Bellanca. Adds Presto CEO Peter Radsliff: "The adoption of all-electronic means of communication makes it more and more arduous for the technically savvy to revert to analog." That helps explain why the USPS lost $2.8 billion in fiscal year 2008 as a result of a 4.5% drop in pieces of mail sent. (See pictures...
...such regal aspirations. He doesn't even own a soccer team. He's not a flashy dresser, sporting casual, open-necked shirts and spending his free time quietly with family by Lake Geneva. He's at the firm to manage Fiat, not rule it. "My job as CEO is not to make decisions about the business but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them," he wrote. It worked at Marchionne's previous job, as head of a Swiss inspection and verification company called...
...mark the anniversary, held in the still recovering one-block historic shopping district, was sparsely attended by midafternoon and dominated by the accordion of a three-piece band. "We have to celebrate how far we've come, but we have a long way to go," says Gail Naughton, CEO of the nearby National Czech and Slovak Museum, which sponsored the roast. The museum was shuttered by the flood, but officials hope to rebuild. "People here are resilient, they're hardworking and they'll do what they need to do," says Naughton. "It's the uncertainty, the major decisions about where...
...Anderson who helped Apple figure out how to buy enough time to execute the turnaround. Anderson had had a terrible falling out with Jobs during the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of an options-backdating scandal in 2007. He settled the case without admitting wrongdoing but blamed the CEO for leaving him exposed. Not coincidentally, at about that time, Anderson joined Elevation Partners, a private-equity firm that had invested $325 million to buy a 26% share of Palm. (It now owns 34%.) Thinking that Rubinstein was just what Palm needed to right itself, Anderson introduced...