Get a taste of the wine business
Financial Times March 31, 2006 The fecund land of Napa Valley, northern California’s wine country, is waking to springtime with help from 400 hungry sheep. Trucked in from Colorado, the […]
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China’s war for returning talent hots up
Financial Times February 16, 2006 Multinationals are fighting over the pick of foreign-educated managers to run Chinese operations as the ‘brain drain’ is reversed The China of the early 1980s […]
Banishing the negative: how Kodak is developing its blueprint for a digital transformation
Financial Times 26 January 2006 For generations of Americans photography meant Kodak. Since 1888, when the company coined the slogan “you press the button, we do the rest”, film, paper […]
World poker bonanza deals business a hand to savour
Financial Times July 15, 2005 Casino tables are booming but the game’s real value lies in its marketability The loud buzz inside the cavernous room at the Rio Hotel and […]
Stakes high as Las Vegas welcomes in the new year
Financial Times February 9, 2005 US gaming groups with an eye on the East prepare for the annual Chinese pilgrimage A 10-foot tall animatronic rooster sits inside the glass-domed conservatory […]
‘We make it up as we go along’
Financial Times Profile of Craigs List founder January 19, 2005 With balding pate and slight paunch, Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, the US online listings company, is a self-described nerd. […]
On a rapid course for expansion: The unorthodox strategy adopted by Royal Caribbean Cruises
Financial Times December 27, 2004 Richard Fain, chief executive of Royal Caribbean Cruises, rises from a chair in his office overlooking the Miami coast to explain how one of the […]
Chapter 11 is nowhere near the end of the Trump story
Financial Times Interview with Donald Trump August 16, 2004 Seated in his New York office overlooking Central Park days after last week’s announcement, Donald Trump wore a black suit and […]
First ‘walkies!’ Now talkies
Financial Times February 28, 2004 Amy Yee tests the Japanese-made Bow-Lingual, whose makers claim to use voiceprint technology to translate dogs’ woofs into human language. Freddie may be chatty but […]
Film’s image fades, eclipsed by digital
January 26 2004 Financial Times Kodak has signalled the beginning of the end for 35mm photography as a product for the mass market. Amy Yee asks what will be left […]
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