MasterCard is eyeing the emerging middle classes of women in Asia and Cambodia is as good a test case as anywhere else — and it offers a CSR branding point. Cambodia has been attracting a fair amount of corporate and “social business” interest in local seamstresses. Socially-motivated businesses like Eve Blossom’s Lulan Artisans and Elizabeth Kiester’s Wanderlust , both for-profit social enterprises that use the talents of marginalized seamstresses, have set up shop here
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Cambodia’s Seamstresses Exemplify Global Trends Toward Investment in the Female Market
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Huawei , famous mainly for 3G computing peripherals, is trying its hand at smartphones –and it’s latest effort is pretty distinctive: It’s bringing the smartphone to entry-level markets. Huawei doesn’t mess around in describing the phone
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Huawei Pulls a Nokia with "World’s Most Affordable" Smartphone: Ideos
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Yesterday, Steve Jobs boasted of iTunes’ 160 million users when introducing Ping, Apple’s new social music network . But anyone wading into the service this morning will find an empty community save a few artists (Lady Gaga, Yo-Yo Ma) and a few potential followers (Rick Rubin)
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If Apple’s Ping Is Social, Then Where’s My Facebook Friends?
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Yesterday, Steve Jobs boasted of iTunes’ 160 million users when introducing Ping, Apple’s new social music network. But anyone jumping into the service this morning will land into an empty community save a few artists (Lady Gaga, Yo-Yo Ma) and a few potential followers (Rick Rubin). Sure early adopters are always a small crowd–but this is Apple, not some start-up
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Apple’s Social Network Ping Released: Where’s My Facebook Friends?
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The Oxford English Dictionary, currently a 20 volume, 750-pound monstrosity, has been the authoritive word on the words of the English language for 126 years.
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Latest Victim of the Internet: The Oxford English Dictionary
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The war between Random House and the Wylie Agency is over, and so too is the latter’s “exclusive” deal with Amazon. Last month, the literary agency sparked a feud with Random House after working out an exclusive arrangment with Amazon to sell e-books from 20 of the most influential authors in fiction–authors such as Salman Rushdie and Vladimir Nabokov who Random House also had agreements with
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War and Peace: Random House Reaches Truce After Amazon Betrayal
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The war between Random House and the Wylie Agency is over, and so too is the latter’s “exclusive” deal with Amazon. Last month, the literary agency sparked a feud with Random House after working out an exclusive arrangment with Amazon to sell e-books from 20 of the most influential authors in fiction–authors such as Salman Rushdie and Vladimir Nabokov who Random House also had agreements with. The book publisher, one of the world’s largest, then pulled its weight and severed ties with the agency.
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War and Peace: Random House Reaches Truce After Amazon Betrayal
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American Apparel, the risqué-advertised and hipster-chic clothing retailer, is struggling to lift itself out of the financial dumps. The company’s debt has risen to $120.3 million, up more than 33% since March
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American Apparel’s Dov Charney Blames Immigration Reform for Troubles in Team Conference Call
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Remember having to wear those cheap, plastic frames to 3-D movies? The ones that’d pinch your nose throughout all four hours of Avatar? Well soon, those 3-D shades might be a thing of the past
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Toshiba Solves the Awkward 3-D Glasses Problem
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The Obama administration, along with countless other pundits, is furious with WikiLeaks over the publishing of tens of thousands of classified military documents a few months back. (You can check out the behind-the-scenes story here .) That’s resulted so far mostly in attacks in the press, going after WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Australian leader, Julian Assange, for the supposed irresponsibility in publishing such documents
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WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange Accused of Rape, Calls It a "Dirty Trick" From the Pentagon
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