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...that the wheat gluten, which was eventually recalled, came from a single Chinese company but ended up in over 100 brands of pet food. ChemNutra Inc., based in Las Vegas, bought 873 tons of gluten from the Chinese company, farmed it out to three pet food makers and one distributor that services the industry. A highly centralized process may be cheap, but "at that size and scale if something goes wrong it goes wrong big time," says Nestle...
Conducting multiple careers simultaneously takes an awful lot of energy. Good thing that Mariela Dabbah, 42, has enough to power her native city of Buenos Aires. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1988, she landed a job at a Westchester, N.Y., company that distributes bilingual textbooks. Dabbah bought the distributor in 1993 and sold it in 2000. By then she had started a company that translated business documents. A teaching stint at a community college awakened her to a need among Latinos for help navigating the U.S. educational and employment systems. She published a guide for Latino job seekers...
...London office for Emeryville. As director of business development, she's ready to work with partners like Viacom, NBC and Turner and target other major media companies. The mission is to program--and monetize--their content for mobile phones. Rodriguez plans to help expand MobiTV's role as a distributor that fashions content into made-for-mobile programs such as Fox Sports and ABC News Now as well as unique content channels. "At the end of the day, we're an enabler," she says with buoyant vitality, accented by hair nearly as orange as her patent-leather shoes...
Viacom, which recently yanked its programs from YouTube, has signed a deal to supply Joost with movies from Paramount and programming from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other stations. TIME has learned that Joost will soon announce another big deal--with JumpTV, the world's largest distributor of international TV stations, to begin distributing programming from some of the 270 stations in 70 countries that JumpTV owns rights to. The deal will launch with prerecorded Spanish and Arabic programming from stations in Latin America and the Middle East. Eventually JumpTV plans to provide Joost with live streams from TV stations...