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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...