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...SAP Public company based in Walldorf, Germany CEO: Hasso Plattner and Henning Kagermann What it does: Designs and implements efficiency-building software solutions that slash costs and give managers control over global empires by consolidating a company's operations, from order taking to production and accounting Why it is hot: SAP's product range is broad and its focus on e-business helped the company report a 29% increase to $1.4 billion in the first quarter over the same period last year www.sap.com
...River life has changed little since the Mekong was a major artery of French Indochina, when mustachioed messieurs shot crocodiles from steamboats while mademoiselles sipped fine wines and snacked on tinned delicacies. The journey begins in Phnom Penh, a city of wide boulevards where the Mekong meets the Tonle Sap River. The first leg starts at dawn?a six-hour ride upriver on a modern ferry to the town of Kratie. For the best views, pick a spot on the roof?as far forward as possible to avoid being soaked by spray. The Mekong is more than 1 km wide...
...claims for back pay from 3,000 workers. First to Finnish Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has topped French business school INSEAD's list of the world's most effective companies. Other high scorers are Renault and BNP Paribas. Confidence Trick While its rivals issue profit warnings, German software giant SAP forecast 20% growth in sales in the first half of the year and announced an alliance with Yahoo to develop corporate websites. Shares rose 8%. Working Up a Thirst Labor unions voted to strike over a planned packaging-plant closure at Irish brewer Guinness, which produces 4 million pints...
...particularly eerie part is the verse in which the sap at the center of Jones' tale tells how he turns on his friend and kills him. It's a spookily similar situation to the one I described a couple of columns back, when George, during one his lowest moments in the '70s, shot at his buddy Earl "Peanut" Montgomery. Only difference: George missed...