Word: delling
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...Online, tells tale after tale of angry consumers whose gripes were magnified a thousandfold through online postings, message boards, YouTube and even the mainstream media when a seemingly ordinary dispute spiraled. In one notable consumer revolt in 2005, media pundit Jeff Jarvis used his popular blog BuzzMachine to chastise Dell founder Michael Dell on the quality of the company's laptop and customer service. A legion of other dissatisfied customers piled on. The resulting consumer firestorm damaged the brand name, writes Blackshaw: "A swarm of digital termites ended up eating away at the reputation Dell had spent countless millions...
...cheaper to offload the problem on poor nations than it is to take care of the waste at home. "This is effectively long-distance dumping," said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme. One solution is to promote recycling programs for old PCs and phones, as Dell has done recently, or try to reduce the amount of toxic metals used in those products, as Apple has done. The answer will almost certainly have to come from rich importers - for poor nations, the money that can be made off the e-waste trade is simply too good to abandon...
...largest mobile phone retailer in the U. K. The marriage helps Best Buy gain a foothold in Europe and expand its business into cell phone sales, while giving Carphone Warehouse a leg up in electronics. Best Buy CEO and vice chairman Brad Anderson talks with TIME's Kristina Dell about global expansion, best-selling products and how he made the jump from sales clerk...
...global-warming debate has introduced some new catchphrases into the business lexicon. Becoming carbon neutral, for example, is now a goal for multinationals like Dell, HSBC and Tesco. But for another well-known international brand, becoming carbon neutral isn't enough. Last June, Coca-Cola CEO Neville Isdell flew to Beijing and pledged that his company would become "water neutral" - every drop of water it uses to produce beverages would be returned to the earth or compensated for through conservation and recycling programs. "Water is the main ingredient in nearly every beverage that we make," Isdell said. "Without access...
...annual meetings throughout April and May, some 70 different institutional investors will be pushing to add an annual provision to let shareholders vote up or down on how companies pay their top five executives. Earlier this week, about 150 institutional investors and representatives from companies like Pfizer, Morgan Stanley, Dell, BP, Sara Lee, Fed Ex, Procter & Gamble and United Health gathered in New York for a roundtable on say-on-pay votes. Such votes wouldn't actually be binding, but they still might serve to pressure firms into behaving the way shareholders want them to, especially when it comes...