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Posted on October 1, 2007. Filed under: China, Mattel, Money, business, children, employment, finance, jobs, politics, safety, toys | Tags: China, hero, Mattel, politics, safety, toys |
If there had ever been a hit man employed to carry out a political assassination, none would probably beat Mattel in its single-handed act of wreaking financial havoc abroad in China.
One Chinese toy company CEO died a hero last month – he ensured that all workers got paid their severance pay before hanging himself from [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2007. Filed under: Blogging trends, business, business rivalries, compensation, competition, contemporary terminology, digital age, discovery, impact of web-based programs, incomes, no ads, online tours, proposal, quiz, reality check, salary expectations, surprise, unbelievable |
Imagine that! A company can save money from not using a recruitment agency by simply creating a virtual image of itself ‘warts and all’.
One company did and is getting some rave reviews – a tailor made recruitment case study:
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Potential employees visiting the site are challenged to find Professor Van Straten, a software developer at RM [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2007. Filed under: Blogging trends, Google, Internet, blog features, blog sustainability, bloggers making money, bugs, business, compensation, competition, contemporary terminology, decency, discovery, ethics, impact of web-based programs, introducing Cyclera, locations, making blogging worthwhile, messages, no ads, no foul play, online revenues, online tours, proposal, reality check, research findings, research results, salary expectations, updates |
If you’ve searched for a particular CYCLERA post you enjoyed in the past but can find it here no longer, especially after clicking a listed category that leads nowhere immediately, please visit my Blogroll – one of the blogs listed should have it posted with the original title intact.Sorry for any inconvenience this strategy may [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2007. Filed under: EBay, Google, Internet, Money, Yahoo, business, business rivalries, competition, earnings, fans, incomes, intolerance, messages, online restrictions, search engines |
Goliath versus David – not quite a perfect match, phonetically; but it’s brewing along the same lines, kind of:
[...Google feeds the text ads that appear on eBay's international sites (Yahoo Inc. handles that for eBay's U.S. site). And the companies have been working on integrating aspects of the Google Talk voice-messaging software and the eBay-owned [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2007. Filed under: Blogging trends, Flickr, Internet, Satisfaction, Yahoo, business, censorship, locations, national comparisons, online restrictions, politics |
And in hot soup – for censorship!
Their defence -
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"In other words, German users can't access photos on Flickr that are not flagged 'safe,'" wrote one user in an online forum. "Only flowers and landscapes for the Germans."
Yahoo said Flickr's restrictions adhere to strict German laws requiring Web sites to verify that visitors are old enough [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2007. Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Vista, anti-trust, business, search engines |
Google has complained – in court, no less – that Microsoft Vista software is stifling other desktop search engines installed on personal computers (PCs), generally in violation of a 2002 anti-trust settlement.
Google complains about Microsoft’s Vista
It all sounds like a tale of tit for tat, IMHO:
[...Google filed its written complaint just a few days after [...]
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