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Microsoft Joins One Laptop per Child
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BusinessWeek
Just four months after a messy breakup with tech giant Intel (INTC), the One Laptop per Child organization on May 15 announced an alliance with another tech behemoth -- Microsoft (MSFT). The two will make Microsoft's Windows XP operating system available on OLPC's XO laptop, which was...
Retailers Pay Big for Prime Locales
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BusinessWeek
Retailers on Manhattan's famed Fifth Avenue pay the highest rents in the world, and it isn't necessarily because they expect to collect the highest profits. Some Fifth Avenue stores are cash cows. Others aren't. That's not the point.
"You want to be where the...
Cancer Research Group Releases Data
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BusinessWeek
Studies of drugs that may stop the spread of many cancers -- vaccines for brain tumors, treatments that prevent bone metastases, vitamins that may improve the chances of breast cancer patients -- will be examined by some 30,000 oncologists and scientists at the world's biggest cancer-research...
How Virtual Teams Can Succeed
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BusinessWeek
Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise
by Karen Sobel Lojeski and Richard R. Reilly
John Wiley & Sons; 203pp; $29.95
It's 3 o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon, and my local San Francisco...
M&A: The Big Thaw?
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BusinessWeek
Even as credit markets and the economy remain rocky, Wall Street's dealmakers are slowly getting busier. It's hardly the mergers-and-acquisitions fever of a year ago, but M&A activity is still giving a lift to stocks.
On May 15, CBS (CBS) said it would buy CNET Networks...
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