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...that he thought he could form a mobile company in the Virgin brand. I read the letter, rang him back and now Virgin Mobile is set up in 10 countries and has done very well. It made sense to do this [on Twitter], and hopefully we won't miss the good ideas...
...decision out of proportion. The reality is that Harvard is rightly doing everything in its power to ensure the well-being of its own financial-aid program. Claims that a couple of pricey jackets and khakis here and there will lead to “exclusion” miss the point...
...service skills to drive iPhone sales. The company has 140 million wireless customers, compared with market leader China Mobile's nearly 500 million. While the iPhone comes with a marketing halo that few Chinese companies can match, it will be up to Unicom to harness that. "Unicom has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity," says Clark. "But this might be the time they transcend that." The agreement with China Unicom is not exclusive and offers no revenue-sharing for Apple, meaning the U.S. computer maker could seek other options. "I think Apple is still considering other channels beside...
...opposite." But there is more passion than reasoned argument here. Urbanization, for example, may be destroying rural communities, but it also liberates people from the appalling restrictions of village life. Roy couldn't care a whit for such subtleties - yet to fault her for that is to miss the point of a polemic. She demands an emotive response to the horrible injustices that go largely unnoticed in a world distracted by images of cricket gods, Bollywood glamour and Nano cars. In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again...
...Then they created groups dedicated to those individual causes, with perhaps a dozen full-time members running each. Every group comes up with creative and often wickedly funny new ways to focus attention to their issue, drawing in supporters and hordes of journalists who don't want to miss a good story. It has proved wildly successful. "What you have is a small number of brilliant people taking up problems that may seem marginal compared to the broader socio-economic debates going on, but which it turns out a lot of people are very concerned with," explains Guy Groux...