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...Meanwhile, with the newest iPhone going on sale June 19, and with an immediate price cut to $99 for last year's model - not to mention a passel of new features coming in the smartphones' operating-system upgrade on June 17 - Apple's competition is that speck you now see in the rearview mirror. Oh, wait, it was there just a second...
...Therein lies a critical challenge for Asia. Unless it comes up with a new source of demand to support its export-led growth model, Asia will face stiff and enduring headwinds. Nowhere is this more evident than in China, where the mood has turned particularly upbeat. While I no longer doubt that China's performance will be better than expected in 2009, there is good reason to be wary of extrapolation. China's incipient rebound relies on a timeworn stimulus formula: upping the ante on infrastructure spending to support growth in anticipation of a return of global demand for Chinese...
Dunham is aloft now - in star territory. He has a tour bus with a built-in workshop (for the puppets), a new house with a 200-lb. (90 kg) model F-14 Tomcat in the atrium, a couple of homebuilt helicopters, a writing team and even tabloidesque buzz about his marriage. (He and his wife Paige are divorcing, he confirms...
...Lacroix's situation is indicative of the state of luxury overall, a business that is structured on a pyramid model wherein companies invest in the high-end image of a brand that will generate profits at the lower end of the price spectrum. Lacroix, who launched his label in 1987 with the financial backing of Bernard Arnault, chief of the mighty LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is a product of a 20-year creative and business cycle that has come crashing down with the recent global financial crisis. Despite his enormous creativity and influence on fashion, Lacroix could...
...Airbus 330 is not the only model to suffer ADIRU failures. An Airworthiness Directive issued by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration last year warned airlines of instances of failure in ADIRUs aboard Airbus 319, 320 and 321 models that "could result in loss of one source of critical altitude and airspeed data and reduce the ability of the flight crew to control the airplane." Dubon says these issues are "totally unrelated ... Our safety people have informed me that is not relevant to either the Qantas case or the Air France case...