5 Business Lessons From the Netflix Pricing Debacle |
- 5 Business Lessons From the Netflix Pricing Debacle
- North Korean Urbanism at Kim Jong-il's Funeral (Live, Now!)
- China says Taiwan's opposition a threat to peace
- Egypt's Mubarak trial resumes after delay
- Mubarak trial resumes in Cairo
- Why Customer Service Is The New Marketing
- VIDEO: Outdoor escalator for shanty town
- VIDEO: Festive Odd Box: Mishaps
- VIDEO: Outdoor escalator for shanty town
- VIDEO: Thousands protest over segregation call
- 3 NATO troops killed by bomb in east Afghanistan (AP)
- Cuban MBAs? A Spanish School Hopes to Train Havana's Future Moguls (Time.com)
- Eat Raw Food To Lose Weight, Cooked Food Contains More Calories
- "Great successor" poised to take over North Korea
- Asian stocks down on mixed US, Japan economic news (AP)
- Mourners fill Pyongyang streets for Kim
- Android: The Consequences Of Open
- Russian court may ban Hare Krishna text (AP)
- Mexico official fired for saying poor smell bad (AP)
- Cranky croc steals Aussie zoo worker's lawn mower (AP)
| 5 Business Lessons From the Netflix Pricing Debacle Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:17 PM PST How did Neftlix, an innovative company that put Blockbuster Video out of business and in the process transformed the movie renting business make such a mess of their recent price increase? Here is what happened: Netflix had a DVD-by-mail and online streaming combo plan for $10 per month. The company decided to increase the price ...
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| North Korean Urbanism at Kim Jong-il's Funeral (Live, Now!) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:15 PM PST Quick, are you at the computer reading this around 2 a.m. Wednesday eastern time?? Then watch ?s funeral, live! At the moment it?s not terribly interesting - just a long shot of one of Pyongyang?s beautiful boulevards (I think they?re having technical difficulties?) - but that gives us some time to reflect on North Korean ...
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| China says Taiwan's opposition a threat to peace Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:48 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party on Wednesday that its stance on relations with Beijing could threaten a hard-won state of peaceful coexistence, as the island's closely watched elections draw near.
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| Egypt's Mubarak trial resumes after delay Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:31 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - The trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with the killing of protesters and abuse of power, resumed on Wednesday following a delay of almost two months while lawyers demanded a new judge.
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| Mubarak trial resumes in Cairo Posted: 27 Dec 2011 11:36 PM PST Court proceedings begins after a three-month break in murder case against the deposed Egyptian president.
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| Why Customer Service Is The New Marketing Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:43 PM PST Treat yours customers as if they were newspapers reporters; this is the new mantra for savvy companies of all sizes. As consumers, we?ve become disenchanted with advertising and marketing of all sorts, having being duped, tricked or made to feel foolish on more than one occasion. The last true medium that holds sway is referrals ...
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| VIDEO: Outdoor escalator for shanty town Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:42 PM PST Residents of one of the poorest shantytowns in Colombia have been given a welcome Christmas present - an outdoor escalator system to help them get around.
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| VIDEO: Festive Odd Box: Mishaps Posted: 21 Dec 2011 05:46 AM PST Newsbeat's Dominic Byrne looks back at some of the mishaps that made him smile during 2011, in a festive Odd Box.
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| VIDEO: Outdoor escalator for shanty town Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:42 PM PST Residents of one of the poorest shantytowns in Colombia have been given a welcome Christmas present - an outdoor escalator system to help them get around.
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| VIDEO: Thousands protest over segregation call Posted: 27 Dec 2011 07:29 PM PST Several thousand Israelis have demonstrated in the town of Beit Shemesh against the behaviour of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who want to enforce segregation between men and women.
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| 3 NATO troops killed by bomb in east Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:30 PM PST
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| Cuban MBAs? A Spanish School Hopes to Train Havana's Future Moguls (Time.com) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST Time.com - A Spanish university and Catholic clergy in Cuba have joined forces to help train Cuba's business leaders of the future -- even if that future remains in question
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| Eat Raw Food To Lose Weight, Cooked Food Contains More Calories Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:32 PM PST We're often encouraged to get into the kitchen and prepare more home-cooked meals. In fact, nutrition experts suggest that this strategy could go some way toward a healthier, thinner nation. But, if the results of a study published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is anything to go by, we ...
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| "Great successor" poised to take over North Korea Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:55 PM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - Young and untested, Kim Jong-un has all but taken over North Korea's leadership, with state media calling him "supreme commander" and "leader of the state, army and party" well before his late father was borne through the streets of Pyongyang in a state funeral on Wednesday.
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| Asian stocks down on mixed US, Japan economic news (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST
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| Mourners fill Pyongyang streets for Kim Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:17 PM PST The funeral of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il unfolded across the snow-laden streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday, with the secretive regime displaying its ability to choreograph dramatic state ceremonies.
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| Android: The Consequences Of Open Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:14 PM PST The Other Side Of Open | TechCrunch. The link above leads to a post by TechCrunch?s MG Siegler about the perils of the open Android OS to : major competitors will hijack Android by building their own version, and then lock???s services out. MG observes that Amazon is starting to do this: the Kindle Fire ...
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| Russian court may ban Hare Krishna text (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:06 PM PST AP - A Russian court is to decide Wednesday whether a religious text central to the global Hare Krishna movement is "extremist' and should be banned, in a case that has angered Hindus around the world and highlights the continuing challenges for minority religions in Russia.
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| Mexico official fired for saying poor smell bad (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:06 PM PST AP - A Mexican anti-poverty official has been fired after posting a comment on social media sites suggesting that poor people smell bad.
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| Cranky croc steals Aussie zoo worker's lawn mower (AP) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 09:27 PM PST
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