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...stake in experimental literature, printed the first English translation of the late Roberto Bolanõ’s work—the slim volume “By Night in Chile”—during a time when contemporary Latin American authors were struggling to gain a foothold in the American market. Circulating among critics well-versed in the literary tradition of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, the translation introduced readers to a then-unknown Latin America, one neither swathed in magic realism nor saturated with family saga, but instead, mired?...
...Google soon shuts down its Chinese search engine (Google.cn) - as most analysts believe it will - Baidu will grab even more. Dick Wei, senior analyst at JPMorgan Securities in Hong Kong, estimates that if Google loses a quarter of its China traffic, Baidu will reap a 6% gain in revenue; the gain would be 12% if the number of eyeballs logging onto Google shrinks 50%. For the last full year completed, 2008, Baidu generated $468.8 million in revenue and earned $153.6 million. Though they haven't yet reported full-year 2009 results, Baidu's stock soared from just...
Comcast doesn't seem to need a rebranding. Fueled by higher Internet and phone revenue and a onetime tax gain, company earnings more than doubled, to $955 million, in the fourth quarter. "Here's one thing we do know," says Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. "Comcast is going to spend a huge amount of money to get that brand to mean what it wants it to mean." Here's another thing we know. Shareholders should be asking...
Without the presence of its second-leading scorer and leading rebounder—sophomore Keith Wright, who missed the game with Achilles tendonitis—the Crimson struggled to gain a presence in the paint and was forced to rely on its outside shooting. But the streaky Crimson shot just 36 percent from the field, posting its second-lowest offensive total of the season...
...This panel, if held last semester, would have been so helpful,” Homaifar added. “[The panelists’] wisdom and their idea of viewing failure as another opportunity to gain skills would have really helped...