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...Seventh Avenue and either strike the right chord or strike out. These days, no one can afford to be so haphazard. After picking their designer, Stroll and Chou targeted four department-store chains where they saw a void in the designer better market--including Federated, May Department Stores, Saks Inc. and Dillard's. Then they signed several licensing deals including watches and men's suits, shirts and ties. To prevent the stores from cherry picking, they made the unusual stipulation that in order to carry any part of the collection, retailers would have to buy from each category. Finally, they...
...lots of mergers that are not the old-style friendly negotiations in the boardroom with the [Ministry of Finance] patting them on the back," says Stephen Givens, a corporate lawyer in Tokyo. The change has been encouraged by corporate reforms that over the past several years have eroded Japan Inc.'s favorite protective mechanism: the extensive cross-ownership of shares among affiliated companies, a practice that makes it easier for insiders to repel outsiders and maintain control. There has been a corresponding rise in the prominence and power of independent investors who care more about returns than stability?and they...
...student at the University of Waterloo, near Toronto. Last year the number of people using a BlackBerry doubled, and in the three months through June alone, RIM shipped more than 500,000 devices, almost three times as many as a year earlier, according to research firm Gartner Inc...
...model. In 2000 he and Skype co-founder Janus Friis launched Kazaa, a peer-to-peer exchange that allowed users to swap music and videos online. Now Zennstrom is at the vanguard of voice over Internet protocol (VOIP), a technology that lets voice traffic travel over the Internet. Gartner Inc. analyst Katja Ruud estimates that about 100 million people worldwide will use VOIP by 2008. Even telecom giants like AT&T, BT Group and Verizon realize they have to offer VOIP. Zennstrom practices extreme VOIP: free calls and free software. He admits that "we have almost no revenue" and that...
Catalano said the decision to add the time of occurrence stemmed from a recommendation by Daniel Carter, the senior vice president of Security On Campus Inc., a non-profit organization committed to increasing campus safety at universities...