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- Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B Visas
- Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B VisasDisagreeEconomics will always win at the end of the day!RE: Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B VisasMy experience in recruiting visa canaidates whas pure supply and demand. We did not have a different pay scale, and tended hire a range of experienced...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
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- Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B Visas
- This is an extremely complicated issue, and it's been around for years, but let's talk some common sense about H-1B visas. Bill Gates went before Congress this week to try to make it easier for companies to hire foreign tech workers, using this visa status. Essentially, companies can bring in...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Michael Robertson: Digital music's bad boy was right
- Michael Robertson on iTunes: "Mark my words they will go down and the rest of the world will catch them and surpass them. We've seen this before."(Credit: James Martin/CNET Networks)Over the years, Michael Robertson, the man who founded pioneering digital music service MP3.com, has never hesitated to make a prediction...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Was Microsoft Ditching Seinfeld Part of Its Plan?
- On Friday, I offered the hesitant sentiment that perhaps Microsoft wasn't completely making of hash of things with its series of ads depicting Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld bumbling around suburban USA. This evening, the news that future Microsoft ads will no longer feature Seinfeld seemed to confirm that I...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- 5 Questions for Mary Jo Foley, "Microsoft 2.0"
- Despite the marked shift to Web software, Microsoft remains a dominant technology company and one of the biggest, most profitable firms in the world. The firm just made some of its first significant product direction announcements since Bill Gates officially left in late June. Who better to ask about the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- How Microsoft Aims to Remain Dominant
- Despite the marked shift to Web software, Microsoft remains a dominant technology company and one of the biggest, most profitable firms in the world. The firm just made some of its first significant product direction announcements since Bill Gates officially left in late June. Who better to ask about the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Boeing Co. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question... one moment. Our first question comes from Cai von Rumohr of Cowen & Co. Cai von Rumohr - Cowen & Co. Yes. If you would give us a little more detail the unit cost margin, looks like was kind...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- National AOY: Crispin Porter + Bogusky
- (l.-r.) Andrew Keller, Alex Bogusky, Rob Reilly and Steve ErichIt was a new day for Microsoft. After two years of having Apple define the Windows user in the form of John Hodgman's bumbling "PC" in the "Get a Mac" ads, Microsoft enlisted, for the first time, agency Crispin Porter +...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Did Meg Whitman Fail?
- Did Meg Whitman Fail?Lack of customer service and knowledge of staffLast year I canceled my Ebay account because of repeated attempts to correct a problem with Ebay customer service. It started out that one of the vendors on the Ebay site took a payment from me, then rejected it...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Live blog: Ballmer at CES
- LAS VEGAS--With Bill Gates now a Microsoft part-timer, company CEO Steve Ballmer is filling in at this year's opening keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show. We're bringing you live coverage of his speech, which started at about 6:30 p.m. PST. Windows 7 is likely to be the centerpiece of Ballmer's...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Irreplaceable Jobs?
- Â Steve Jobs privacy's come at some cost. But if Apple is concerned that its share price rises and falls with the weight of its founder, it's taken a while to show it. The cause of Jobs's dwindling weight has fuelled rumours for over...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- History and Humility.
- The most powerful words in the English language are "We were wrong" and "We're sorry." In business as in life, anyone who fails to understand the significance of these words is in big trouble. Bill Gates may know those words, but he doesn't understand...
- Research articles 2000-06-01
- Can Americans Stop Spending?
- Get over that image of Americans as debt-ridden consumption addicts. The Great Recession will teach us to find better things to do with the time and money we have left — at least for now. Right now, as we lick our financial and career wounds and poke our 401k...
- Articles 2009-06-25
- Online Buzz Tough to Manage and Measure
- During the late '90s Dot Com boom, David Holtzman ran the most critical network in the world - the domain name system. As Chief Technology Officer for Network Solutions (acquired by VeriSign for $21-billion in '00) and the manager of the Internet's master root server, or the "dot," Holtzman oversaw...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Five Tips on Compelling Business Proposals
- In two separate meetings last week, senior executives told me of their frustration at not being able to gain traction with new business proposals aimed at their target customers. "I don't know why they don't get it," one of the executives said to me, "our ideas will really help them...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Take the B2B High Growth Test
- There are some B2B suppliers who radically change the way their customers do business. Here's eight ways a B2B company can do this. Test your company against them. Many successful high growth companies had disruptive solutions that changed the way their customers did business. They created advantage...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
- LISBON AFP — Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast. "My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer...
- Research articles 2006-01-31
- CEOs to Managers: You're Not Up to Snuff
- What's the biggest HR concern among CEOs? With the recent strike at GM and all the talk on the presidential campaign trail about America's growing number of uninsured, you might guess healthcare. Perhaps, after Bill Gates' call for an end to a limit on visas for skilled foreign workers, you'd...
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- ACE Limited Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Ladies and gentlemen our question and answer session is conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. We will go first to Josh Smith with CREF. Josh Smith - TIAA-CREF Hello, can you hear me? Evan G. Greenberg - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- General Dynamics Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from the line of George Shapiro from Citigroup. Please proceed. George Shapiro - Citigroup Good morning Nick. Nicholas D. Chabraja - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Good morning George. George Shapiro - Citigroup ...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
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