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Apple netted over $1.2 billion on revenue of almost $8.2 billion last quarter. Investors must have sensed that good things were coming. The firm's stock is up 42% this year which is unfair to people who have invested in almost any other company. The NASDAQ has only inched higher by 3% during the same period...
...Apple and RIMM results are an example of why brands matter and why companies are willing to work to develop them by making huge investments which can stretch over decades. Apple wasn't much of a brand until it introduced the iPod in 2001, but the firm was around for a long time before then. RIMM and the Blackberry are young in the brand Hall of Fame, a group that is dominated by Coca-Cola (KO), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), and GE (GE). Interbrand, the Rolls Royce of global brand research, has Apple and Blackberry on its list...
...crowd ever since. And recently divas like Jennifer Lopez and Oprah Winfrey have batted limited-edition lashes in outrageous materials such as feather and fur. The cosmetics company Shu Uemura has opened lash bars in about 80 stores, where customers can get designer-branded falsies. Last fall the Japanese firm collaborated with Dutch designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren on a series of $95 couture lashes, some decorated with sparkling gold foil...
...Harman graduated from Smith College and Harvard Law School. After earning her J.D. in 1969, she became an associate in a Washington, D.C. law firm before transitioning into government as an aide to California Senator John Tunney. In 1977 she joined President Jimmy Carter's Administration as a deputy Cabinet secretary. The following year, she became special counsel to the Department of Defense...
Needless to say, neither MI5, nor the Home Office, the government department that handles inquiries about the stealth agency, is eager to share the specifics of the role. The document detailing the job, circulated by Egon Zehnder International, a London-based headhunting firm, doesn't go beyond the vaguest of descriptions. The successful candidate will be responsible for "developing and owning a clear science, technology and innovation strategy for the Security Service", it reads, and "ensuring that [science] ... is soundly based...