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...Google has maintained that these street-view images were captured in broad daylight on public streets - hardly an invasion of privacy. Over several months, Google staff (who took shots in San Francisco), as well as employees of a third-party firm (which did the same in Miami, Denver, New York and Las Vegas), equipped vehicles in select cities with imaging equipment and drove the streets, snapping photos of everything in sight. At maps.google.com, users can drag a human figurine over one of the highlighted streets in those cities, and a window will open that displays the photo taken at that...
...created a $2 billion conglomerate. But he could be forgiven for taking a little added satisfaction in the recent $1.18 billion acquisition of scotch-whisky producer Whyte & Mackay by his UB Group, based in Bangalore, India. United Breweries has come full circle since the days of empire, when the firm was founded by Scotsman Thomas Leishman in 1915. It wasn't until India gained independence from Britain in 1947 that the first Indian director was appointed--Vittal Mallya, Vijay's father. Vijay Mallya has spread UB's global reach, and taking over production of some of Scotland's most treasured...
Mallya isn't the only one expanding. William Grant & Sons, owner of Glenfiddich single malt, plans to build a new distillery, as does Bruichladdich on the island of Islay. In February, Diageo announced plans for a $200 million distillery and other facilities in Scotland, and the firm may double its investment if demand in emerging markets pans...
...wielding nine-figure sums, called the Poetry Foundation. The foundation needed somebody to run it who was equally at home serving art and Mammon, and they found what they were looking for in John Barr, who spent 18 years at Morgan Stanley before co-founding a boutique investment-banking firm on his own. During that time he also published six books of verse and taught in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence. "For me all the stuff I've experienced in the business world was, in a deep way, feedstock for my writing," Barr says. "I think living broadly...
...policy in Iraq is the "error" that sticks foremost in minds throughout the Church hierarchy, going back to Pope John Paul II's firm opposition to the original invasion in 2003. By all accounts, Benedict was in lockstep with his then boss in opposing the war, and has recently commented that there is "nothing positive" coming out of the situation in Iraq. Of particular concern in Rome is the destiny of the Christian minority in the country. Over the past week, a Catholic Chaldean priest and three deacons were killed in Mosul in northern Iraq, while another Chaldean priest...