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...high school," said Edward S. Tian, vice chairman and chief executive of China Netcom Group, which recently acquired 20% of the Hong Kong telecommunications firm PCCW. China watchers are expecting a wave of such transactions, as the nation tries to create its own brands. Already, Chinese firms have bought IBM's personal computer business and the television company that owns the RCA brand. But some attempts to grow internationally have run into huge obstacles, including cnooc 's thwarted attempt to acquire the U.S. oil company Unocal last year. And even though India has a pool of technology talent, it scores...
...extreme example of a corrosive trend in public opinion that poses just as much of a threat to U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and leaders of dozens of other countries, as well as to the heads of global institutions and corporations from IBM to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As political and business leaders ready themselves for their trek to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, they do so at a time when the mistrust of authority?and an increasingly vocal disrespect for it?has gone global. Deference...
...extreme example of a corrosive trend in public opinion that poses just as much of a threat to President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and their colleagues in dozens of other countries, as well as to the heads of global institutions and corporations from IBM to the International Monetary Fund. As political and business leaders ready themselves for their annual trek to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they do so at a time when the mistrust of authority--and an increasingly vocal disrespect for it--has gone global...
DIED. JOHN DIEBOLD, 79, technology prophet whose 1952 book, Automation, argued that programmable devices would become vital everyday tools for businesses; in Bedford Hills, N.Y. An adviser to AT&T and IBM, he came up with his then-radical idea while serving as a World War II merchant marine, by observing the primitive self-correcting technology of antiaircraft control systems on ships...
...large have stopped doing business with the newspapers. That's about a third of their total help-wanted classifieds right there. The newspapers were slow in responding. The Sunday Boston Globe in 2000 had around 100 pages of help-wanted classifieds. Now they have fewer than 25. What happened? IBM tends not to run full-page ads anymore. They spend their money online instead. That's typical...