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Shih is hardly the only Taiwan businessman aspiring to make his company a household name. Capitalizing on technological shifts in mobile computing and consumer attitudes, several of the island's electronics manufacturers are beginning to steal some of the thunder of their better-known Japanese, South Korean and American rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Name Game | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Other economists note, however, that because a majority of minimum-wage earners work in outsourcing-resistant service jobs, businesses will have a hard time handing out pink slips en masse. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that after an 80-cent New Jersey minimum wage hike in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Minimum Wage | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

By the time metals reach electronics companies, they may have changed hands as many as seven times. This means that without a clear supply history, when a consumer sets her cell phone to vibrate, a function enabled through the mineral wolframite, it is virtually impossible for her to know whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Blood Diamonds, Now Blood Computers? | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Tough Tactics, but Still Legal? That risk, however, became somewhat less considerable two years ago. In 2007 the Supreme Court overturned a nearly century-old ruling that used to make these types of pricing deals inherently illegal. Now such practices must be evaluated under "the rule of reason." For the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Babies "R" Us Gouge Mommy and Daddy? | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

Babies "R" Us and Peg Perego declined to comment on the case. Maclaren offered a statement that it "strongly denies the allegations and shall continue to vigorously defend this action." The attorneys for Britax, Medela and BabyBjörn did not return requests for comment. Barring a settlement, plaintiff lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Babies "R" Us Gouge Mommy and Daddy? | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

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