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Best Buy's lesson from China: Cluttered beats curated
Kit R. Roane 2011-02-16 01:42Sometimes it's better to be late to a party. By the time Best Buy made a splash in China in 2006, large domestic rivals had already spread their tenta...
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Your country needs you! Go shopping!
Stanley Bing 2009-12-01 06:46By Stanley BingPick up those new GPS systems, now on sale at Best Buy, Wal-Mart and other fine stores for under $100!Don’t forget that flat-screen TV ...
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Iceland: The country that became a hedge fund
Peter Gumbel 2009-03-18 01:02来源:2008年12月号《财富》杂志Okay, not really. But its main banks and business tycoons took huge risks and its citizens borrowed to the hilt. Now this island nat...
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Tracing the history of what you buy
财富中文网 2009-05-12 12:21How to make sure the cotton in your shirt wasn't picked, say, by child laborers.By Marc GuntherWhere was the cotton in your shirt grown? Who mined the...
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Is your country the next Greece?
Daryl G. Jones 2010-03-12 11:50Just over a year ago a few members of the research team at Hedgeye attended a lecture at Yale Law School by Robert Rubin, the former Secretary of the ...
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16% of teens, 30% of professionals plan to buy iPhones
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2009-04-09 07:16By Philip Elmer-DeWittTwo surveys released Tuesday, one of American teenagers, the other of professionals and early adopters, show interest in Apple’s...
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What will Oracle buy next?
Adam Lashinsky 2010-09-07 08:20Weighing the odds on how that $70 billion will be spent.Since Oracle (ORCL) co-President Charles Phillips said in July that the company could spend $7...
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Target thrives in Wal-Mart country
Suzanne Kapner 2009-06-08 07:31The retailer opened up shop near Wal-Mart's headquarters. The result is friendly competition that's raising everyone's game.By Suzanne KapnerIf Target...
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Why Obama's plan won't buy votes
Nin-Hai Tseng 2010-09-11 01:46Economists are already questioning the impact of the latest economic stimulus plan, which appears to be little more than a transparent plea for votes....
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Google to buy $2 billion Manhattan city block?
Seth Weintraub 2010-10-28 10:20A report today says that Google is in the final stages of acquiring the huge building which it currently rents in Chelsea.The New York Post is reporti...