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Julie Fergerson, a vice president at ClearCommerce, a supplier of sophisticated risk-management software for retailers, acknowledges the growth in international e-commerce fraud but urges online merchants to fight rather than quit: "U.S. e-tailers are leaving a lot of revenue on the table." The firm's proprietary GeoLocator and Risk-Scoring software screens incoming orders to separate the frauds from the real prospects...
...Ornery employees are not the only problem GM must confront in the coming months. Since 1998, Daewoo's market share in Korea has tumbled from nearly 30% to under 12%. Its factories run at about half their capacity. In late August, the plants were shut entirely when a major supplier stopped shipping parts after Daewoo failed to pay for previous orders. GM expects Daewoo will need three years to get its production up to the point where it can break even...
...more than a little disturbing last week when the Food and Drug Administration announced it was shutting down part of the facilities at CryoLife Inc., a leading supplier of donated tissue in the U.S. The FDA charged that a number of the implants, which are processed (in the industry euphemism) from dead bodies and stored in tissue banks, had not been properly handled, leading to serious infections in at least 26 patients. The agency recalled tendons, ligaments and cartilage distributed by the Georgia-based company since October...
...revolutions go, this one has a large number of theorists and manifestos. Besides McDonough and Braungart's Cradle to Cradle, there is Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken (founder of gardening supplier Smith & Hawken), Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins; it makes a strong case that natural resources should be just as valued a part of our capital base as factories and machines. Biomimicry by Janine Benyus encourages companies to look to nature for possible design techniques. She cites San Francisco's Iridigm, whose flat screens for mobile electronic devices produce color in a manner similar to the way microscopic structures...
...suppliers have signed 20 contracts and are bidding on an additional 25 for the A380, which is scheduled to enter service in 2006. In a surprise announcement last January, Airbus selected Honeywell, based in Phoenix, Ariz., to provide the crucial electronic flight-management system (which helps with navigation) for the A380, rejecting its usual supplier, France's Thales. And three carriers, including Air France, have asked that their copies of the A380 be equipped with engines made jointly by General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, rather than Rolls-Royce...