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...sector will rise by 15-20% this year?and it is midlevel managers, who command salaries ranging from $20,000 to $40,000 annually, who are getting the fattest increases. Indian companies are resisting, but they're losing the battle as American companies like Accenture and IBM expand in India and often lure executives with better pay packages. Silicon Valley-style job hopping is suddenly in vogue. "If an executive is working with a firm for two or three years, and he doesn't get a pay raise, then he starts to look for another...
...Still, most services are limited to a few big markets like Britain, where the top 20 tracks tallied just over 100,000 downloads in a week, total. (The No. 1 on the traditional chart, Natasha Bedingfield's These Words, sold 41,000 copies.) "There's not much motivation to expand in a rush," says Sony Music Entertainment's Yasushi Ide, who cites ongoing worries about piracy, especially in Asia . "We'd rather grow the market gradually." Which may be the wisest way to avoid flying without wings - and crashing. - Reported by Yuki Oda/Tokyo and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong Made...
...leave it, Singapore-based Osim is hoping its new full-body massage chair will keep the tense and weary glued to their seats. The iSymphonic AV can detect its user's acupressure points, custom-tailoring each massage to the particular stresses of the day. With leg rests that expand to accommodate people of all heights and a remote control, the iSymphonic is being touted as the easiest chair of them all. Hook your stereo or TV into it, and the chair also rubs you in rhythm. "We all know music relaxes the mind," says Osim representative Alan Tan. For those...
Urban labels like Rocawear, Sean John and Phat Farm, which made their names with warm-up suits and athletic jerseys, are introducing more dressed-up looks in an attempt to expand their customer base and achieve mega-brand status along the lines of Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger. Jay-Z, who founded Rocawear with Damon Dash, even sang about the sartorial shift: "I don't wear jerseys, I'm 30-plus./Give me a crisp pair of jeans ... Button up." (Concertgoers quickly followed his lead, he says.) Dash, Rocawear's CEO, isn't a fan of the new trend. "This...
...other way to find out except to go out there and do it. That's why we're big believers in a part-time job. You see that you can do it: you can handle a sick patient, you can handle a cranky client. Then you can expand to full time...