China poultry sector losses exceed $1.6 billion on bird flu scare |
- China poultry sector losses exceed $1.6 billion on bird flu scare
- Greater China Cosmetics And Beauty Chain Chlitina Applies For Taiwan IPO
- Anger over public apathy after India accident
- Ergen Throws DISHwater on Sprint/Clearwire Soap Opera
- NKorea, marking leader's birthday, shows more ire
- Railway Spending Up in China
- Shanghai H7N9 Bird Flu Situation Said "Stable"
- NKorea marks founder's birthday, issues more ire
- Why Insects Sing? A Conversation with David Rothenberg
- World Digest: At least 55 die in attacks across Iraq; pope backs overhaul of U.S. nuns group
- Exclusive Dragon's Maze Preview: Warped Physique
- Aberdare Ventures Moves Deeper Into Digital Health
- Russia Activist Facing Trial Discusses Personal Toll
- Gordy-Francois Connection Led Chrysler To 'Motown' Musical
- Boston Marathon bomb blasts kill at least three, leave scores injured
- China points finger at U.S. over Asia-Pacific tensions
- China points finger at U.S. over Asia-Pacific tensions
- Welcome To Sin Inc
- Defining a Microeconomic Strategy for Global Competitiveness
- U.S. arrests man linked to Israeli tycoon in Africa graft probe
| China poultry sector losses exceed $1.6 billion on bird flu scare Posted: 15 Apr 2013 11:17 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's poultry sector has recorded losses of more than 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) since reports emerged of a new strain of bird flu two weeks ago, an official at the country's National Poultry Industry Association told Reuters on Tuesday.  | |
| Greater China Cosmetics And Beauty Chain Chlitina Applies For Taiwan IPO Posted: 15 Apr 2013 11:14 PM PDT Chlitina Holding, a Taipei-based cosmetics and beauty chain whose business is focused in mainland China, has applied to list its shares at the Taiwan Stock Exchange, according to an exchange statement. | |
| Anger over public apathy after India accident Posted: 15 Apr 2013 10:56 PM PDT Man's plea ignored as he cries for help after road accident that killed his wife and daughter near city of Jaipur. | |
| Ergen Throws DISHwater on Sprint/Clearwire Soap Opera Posted: 15 Apr 2013 10:17 PM PDT This story just gets more and more convoluted just as a good soap opera should. All it is missing is the organ chords at the end of the show to get you to tune in tomorrow. Clearwire garners bids almost weekly now for offers of help, money, moral support, or suitors who wish to save Pauline from the Perils of being tied by its abusive parent Sprint to the railroad tracks. That's odd, wouldn't you say, for an entity (Clearwire) that Sprint, its on again off again majority shareholder, insists has no real value. And don't forget for a moment that Sprint's CEO Joe Eutenauer was in NY in 2011 hosting meals for investors and talking openly about putting Clearwire down for the count into bankruptcy. When its Board decided that was not the right path to pursue, then Hesse and Co. decided to starve Clearwire of traffic or funds one way or another. Sprint worked hard for more than two years to bring Clearwire to its knees with the long term scheme of buying it back for a song. | |
| NKorea, marking leader's birthday, shows more ire Posted: 15 Apr 2013 10:21 PM PDT
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| Posted: 15 Apr 2013 09:51 PM PDT China spent $8.8 billion on railway infrastructure construction in the first quarter, up 28% from a year earlier. | |
| Shanghai H7N9 Bird Flu Situation Said "Stable" Posted: 15 Apr 2013 10:05 PM PDT Shanghai officials have described the N7N9 bird flu situation as "stable" after no new cases were reported yesterday, the state-run Shanghai Daily reported today. | |
| NKorea marks founder's birthday, issues more ire Posted: 15 Apr 2013 10:05 PM PDT
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| Why Insects Sing? A Conversation with David Rothenberg Posted: 15 Apr 2013 09:31 PM PDT Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, also published in Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. Rothenberg has also written Sudden Music, Always the Mountains, and Thousand Mile Song, about making music live with whales. His last book was Survival of the Beautiful, on aesthetics in evolution. His first CD on ECM Records, with pianist Marilyn Crispell, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House was released in 2010. Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. | |
| World Digest: At least 55 die in attacks across Iraq; pope backs overhaul of U.S. nuns group Posted: 15 Apr 2013 09:21 PM PDT Insurgents in Iraq deployed a series of car bombs as part of highly coordinated attacks that cut across a wide swath of the country Monday, killing at least 55 people on the deadliest day in nearly a month. Read full article >>
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| Exclusive Dragon's Maze Preview: Warped Physique Posted: 15 Apr 2013 09:01 PM PDT Our preview card for this Magic: The Gathering Dragon's Maze season of surprises and spoilers is Warped Physique, an uncommon Dimir spell that looks like a Limited winner. While it may not appear as immediately useful as something like Agony Warp, this Dimir spell enables a full range of deceptive possibilities. Warped Physique is easy to cast as instant removal, but there's a catch. As Warped Physique can viably handle huge targets with a sizable hand, decks that sport it will get considerably more value out of the card if they are able to play reactively instead of laying everything out on the table. It's especially important not to play extraneous land drops if your deck has acquired a few Warped Physiques during draft or from a sealed pool, as every card is essential for making it a potent removal spell. | |
| Aberdare Ventures Moves Deeper Into Digital Health Posted: 15 Apr 2013 09:01 PM PDT Life sciences venture capital firms may be waiting for the big exit in digital health before taking the plunge, but not Aberdare Ventures. It just recruited Mohit "Mo" Kaushal as a partner to lead early stage investments. He complements a team that includes Darren Hite, and Naheed Misfeldt, familiar faces in the digital health world. "We feel great about it and emboldened to use capital," says Paul Klingenstein, Aberdare's founder. There's cause. Venture funding in life sciences—which includes biotech and medical devices dropped 14% to $6.6 billion last year according to PwC US. In contrast, venture firms, as well as corporate sponsors, are looking more closely at a rising crop of start-ups that are deploying technology and IT-enabled services to chip away at health care inefficiencies and costs. According to accelerator Rock Health, digital health start-ups raised $1.4 billion last year, a 45% increase over 2011. Of 179 investors, 5 made four or more investments; Aberdare was one of the top 3, along with Qualcomm, and Merck. Over the past two years, the San Francisco-based firm has shifted the bulk of its investments in its fourth fund, which has $130 million under management, from life sciences to digital health (Klingenstein throws personalized medicine as part of the health tech mix). His overarching thesis: unsustainable health care costs that are sapping U.S. competitiveness are pushing various stakeholders to pay for efficiencies to lower costs. Since 2010, Aberdare has invested in 7 digital health start-ups, including Jiff, which connects payers, patients and health care providers, clinical trial software goBalto, and RxAnte, which offers predictive tools for medication adherence. Rock Health is also a portfolio investment. Funding ranges between $3 million and $5 million. Kaushal, who trained as an emergency room doctor in the U.K. and holds an MBA from Stanford, was part of a team of health care policy makers in the Obama administration--a background he shares with Venrock partner Bob Kocher. He was a member of the White House Health IT taskforce, and assembled the first health care team at the Federal Communications Commission, where he wrote the health care chapter of the FCC's National Broadband Plan. In 2011, he left government to set up West Health's investment fund which targets digital health start-ups. He invested in RxAnte and goBalto, along with Aberdare's Darren Hite, a friend from Stanford. Kaushal scored when UnitedHealth Group bought West Health portfolio company Humedica, a data analytics firm for "hundreds of millions of dollars," according to Boston Business Journal. For Kaushal, Humedica was an example of government policy, in the form of meaningful use requirements for electronic health records, creating opportunities to mine the flood of patient data. At Aberdare, he will continue to exploit those opportunities. "For me, the fundamental issues are what pieces of policy are accelerating changes," he says. "Mo doesn't wave his hands around like a think-tank pundit," says Aaron McKethan who worked with Kaushal in government before joining RxAnte. Kaushal gave him and his team a dose of reality on how "harder, longer, and more money their business will take," and credits Kaushal with helping sharpen their strategy. "It's fun watching busy hospital executives in the Midwest or somewhere crowding around to see what the young British doctor thinks will transform U.S. health care," says McKethan. | |
| Russia Activist Facing Trial Discusses Personal Toll Posted: 15 Apr 2013 06:20 PM PDT Russian anticorruption blogger and opposition activist Alexei Navalny is preparing to stand trial starting Wednesday in the provincial city of Kirov on charges that he stole 16 million rubles ($509,000) of lumber from a state timber company there in 2009. | |
| Gordy-Francois Connection Led Chrysler To 'Motown' Musical Posted: 15 Apr 2013 08:37 PM PDT Just-opened Motown: The Musical is getting some mixed reviews in New York, but Chrysler Group CMO Olivier Francois has no doubt that the production "is here to stay. It's going to be the next big deal on Broadway." And given the marketing potential of being associated with Berry Gordy Jr.'s musical ode to himself and the iconic Motown artists he nurtured, Francois was surprised that one of Chrysler's Detroit rivals didn't try to beat Chrysler to a partnership with the show. "The miracle is that clearly [the show] could have spoken to GM and Ford as well as Chrysler," Olivier told me. "They are part of the story; they are also from Detroit." Gordy signed a sponsorship agreement with Chrysler which has included not only financial backing for the show but also producing a special Motown edition of its Chrysler 300 sedan, starring Gordy in a TV ad for the car, and chipping in for a billboard in Times Square and other marketing support that the New York Times said has a value of $6 million to $8 million. Francois believes that, in addition to the Chrysler brand's embrace of the Motor City in its "Imported From Detroit" brand positioning, his own past in Europe as a music producer played a role in gaining the confidence of the Motown founder -- and Motown: The Musical playwright. "I happened to meet Mr. Gordy through common friends, and clearly for an old music guy coming from Europe, that was a treat for me," Francois recalled. "We connected because we speak the same language; it is more like conversation from a dad to a son." Chrysler "wasn't looking for something" when Francois heard about Motown: The Musical from Gordy. "But we felt we wanted to be part of it," Francois said. And Gordy's story "is a perfect embodiment of our brand values -- hard work, believing, being a visionary, doing things differently, taking risks, breaking a pattern -- that's us." Interestingly, Francois and his background in music are given a lot of credit for Chrysler's being able to land Eminem in 2010 to star in the "Born of Fire" TV ad, which introduced the "Imported From Detroit" theme in the Super Bowl in 2011. If Motown: The Musical can light up Broadway in a fashion similar to how the Eminem spot ignited the recovery of Chrysler, Francois and his musicality will have one two-for-two. | |
| Boston Marathon bomb blasts kill at least three, leave scores injured Posted: 15 Apr 2013 08:19 PM PDT BOSTON — As runners in the Boston Marathon charged over the finish line Monday afternoon, two bomb blasts released orange balls of fire into the air, lifting runners off their feet, killing at least three people, injuring more than 130 others, and driving Boston and the nation once more into the grim work of responding to terror. Read full article >>
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| China points finger at U.S. over Asia-Pacific tensions Posted: 15 Apr 2013 10:55 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's defense ministry made a thinly veiled attack on the United States on Tuesday for increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific by ramping up its military presence and alliances in the region, days after the top U.S. diplomat visited Beijing.  | |
| China points finger at U.S. over Asia-Pacific tensions Posted: 15 Apr 2013 10:55 PM PDT
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| Posted: 15 Apr 2013 07:28 PM PDT It's been two years since I started blogging for Forbes. Back then, I'd just been downsized. | |
| Defining a Microeconomic Strategy for Global Competitiveness Posted: 15 Apr 2013 07:24 PM PDT For most of the 20th Century, Northeast Ohio's economy was supported by its material sciences, engineering, transportation infrastructure, and steel and auto manufacturing sectors. But, like other regions across the country, it saw these competitive advantages disappear under the pressures of global competition. Northeast Ohio lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the steel and tire industries in the 1970s and 80s, and Cleveland became a poster child for post-industrial challenges. | |
| U.S. arrests man linked to Israeli tycoon in Africa graft probe Posted: 15 Apr 2013 06:30 PM PDT By David Rohde and Clara Ferreira-Marques NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - FBI agents have arrested a man who worked as a representative of Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz' operations in Guinea, as part of a probe into alleged corruption in the mineral-rich West African country. BSG Resources, the mining arm of Steinmetz' conglomerate, is currently battling the African nation over the right to mine one of the world's largest untapped iron-ore deposits, known as Simandou. ... |
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