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Business in Asia is played very much like ice hockey. The big guys - state-backed behemoths, massive conglomerates and supertycoons - almost always pin smaller enterprises against the glass to score the plum deal. So it seemed for Lawrence Ho, CEO of NASDAQ-listed casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment. Less than a year ago, the giants of the gaming industry - Vegas legends Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands - had shoved the little-known Ho to the edge of Asia's casino market. But his rivals should have taken note of how Ho, a recreational hockey player, likes...
...well as more refined chemotherapies and radiation strategies that use lasers and robots to target cancer cells. Cracking the genomic code is leading to new drugs, geared to individual dna, that disrupt the very mechanism of cancer. "The rate of discovery has been phenomenal," says Dr. Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City, a former NIH director and a Nobel-winning researcher in lung cancer. "We feel we understand some of the basic principles. We understand the tissue environment...
...shouldn't be a big surprise to anyone that Google's doing this," said John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, the world's second most popular browser. Noting the aggressive direction that Microsoft is taking, he added, "I think Google has some nervousness around issues of control and ownership...
...moving closer to a deal, another obstacle emerged. The state-owned Chinese Development Bank signaled its interest buying Dresdner at a premium. Some Allianz shareholders, and Dresdner's insurgent executives, appear to have been pushing for a deal with CDB. But, according to German press reports, Allianz CEO Michael Dieckmann put out feelers in the German chancellery and found little sympathy for a deal with the Chinese...
...Inconvenient Truth was meant to diagnose climate change for a country that at the time was still widely skeptical, the We Campaign is meant to find a cure. "One of the things that was missing was the capacity to motivate people around these issues," says Cathy Zoi, the CEO of ACP. "The TV ads for the first time advocate solving the climate crisis in a big way." (Hear Zoi talk about the We Campaign on this week's Greencast...