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...Obviously at first there was trepidation and anxiety, but people enjoy the variety," says Pat Murphy, a quality assurance engineer who joined Guinness 25 years ago as a carpenter's assistant. To monitor how people adapted, Guinness hired consultant Paul Williams, who has also worked for Microsoft and BP. Two days a week, Williams is free to wander the brewery, posing provocative questions. When a brewer says that he feels loyal to Guinness, for example, Williams asks whether he would still feel loyal if the company cut his salary in half - in order to challenge staff allegiances to that...
...wave of business philanthropy is breaking across Europe. Corporate giving is commonplace in the U.S., where a century ago the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller family pioneered a new type of corporate altruism. Their foundations remain models for companies and wealthy businesspeople, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose family foundation is one of the world's biggest. In Europe, however, with the exception of Britain, corporate-giving traditions were wiped out by war, inflation and the growth of the welfare state, which left firms with little incentive to dole out funds. Fueled by high taxes, governments have carried the burden...
...plummet?and prompted Thirachai to pointedly deny the reports and announce the new restrictions at a hastily convened press conference. That incident was just the latest example of regulators trying to control an unruly market. With a total capitalization of only $121 billion?far less than half of Microsoft's current market cap of $295 billion?the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is dominated by small investors who spook as easily as a school of herring, causing volatile price fluctuations. During a roaring market last year (the Thai market's 116% gain in 2003 was tops among the world...
...addicted to TV that you feel withdrawal pangs when you're outdoors, Microsoft wants to help. Its new Portable Media Centers, which come in three versions--built by Creative, Samsung and iRiver, respectively--are due out in a few weeks. Each device has a color screen and a hard drive that can store music, pictures and video. It may prove difficult to enjoy a full-length movie on a 3.5-in. screen, but you will have other media from which to choose: Microsoft has partnered with content providers like CinemaNow and Major League Baseball (just in time for the World...
That may not be anywhere near the hundreds of millions of mobile phones sold every year, but the growth has made a huge impression on cell-phone and PDA vendors. Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Sony, Ericsson, Microsoft and PalmSource have licensed RIM's e-mail software, helping the company ring up $594.6 million in revenues in 2003, making it almost double its size of a year earlier. Why did the device catch on so fast? Unlike earlier handhelds, the BlackBerry pushed e-mail right to the device, rather than merely alerting users that they had e-mail the device could fetch...