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Recently Updated: Business, Management & the Economy in East Asia: A Guide to Selected Information Sources
Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources
|From the Business Reference Services at the Library of Congress: This guide provides a brief overview and information on selected books, periodicals, and electronic resources on business, management, economic trends in East Asia. The guide includes English language material that looks at larger macroeconomic policies and trends, as well as those microeconomic issues that involve […]
The fastest growing private companies in America. Have generated revenue by March 31, 2007; Have generated at least $100,000 in revenue in 2007; Have generated at least $2 million in revenue in 2010; Be privately held, for profit, based in the U.S., and independent (not a subsidiary or division of another company). Direct to the […]
Google Books: "Google Strikes Deal With French Publisher La Martiniere Groupe"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Publishing
|From Dow Jones Newswires: The deal is the second major agreement the web giant reaches with a publishing house, following a controversy over the group’s digital library project. [Clip] “This collaboration constitutes an important step in our relationships with French publishers and contributes to the preservation of the French culture,” Philippe Colombet, head of Google […]
From the Washington Biz Journal: Bloomberg LP has agreed to acquire Arlington-based research and analysis reports publisher BNA in a deal worth $990 million. BNA is owned by current and former employees. Bloomberg will acquire all outstanding shares of BNA for $39.50 per share in cash. The acquisition is expected to close this year, Bloomberg […]
Here’s a timeline with milestones from the history of Apple (Reuters) See Also: iPod/iTunes History (via Apple) See Also: From January 6, 1998: “Apple Expects First Quarter Profits To Top $45 Million” (via The Wayback Machine) “We are thrilled that our new plans are beginning to work,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s Interim CEO. “While there […]
Full Text of Steve Jobs Resignation Letter (via Apple.com) To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has […]
2011 Editorial Salary Survey (via Folio) A survey list of 2,000 was selected in systematic fashion by Red 7 Media and Readex Research, representing 3,159 domestic subscribers and attendees. Data was collected via mail survey by Readex Research from April 21 to June 6, 2011. The survey closed with 479 usable responses, a 24 percent […]
From AdAge: According to ComScore, which will start publishing data on YouTube’s channel partners tomorrow, 40% of YouTube’s audience clicked over in July to watch music videos, more than any other category. Vevo accounted for 38% of YouTube’s entire monthly viewers, easily the most-watched channel within the video-sharing site, and second-place Warner Music accounted for […]
Google Catalogs (web version) debuted in December, 2001 and was available until early 2009. It taught the company a lot about mass digitization (scanning, readability, how to handle documents, etc.) that they have applied to book digitization. For its time, it was very cool. Here’s the Google Catalogs homepage from December 17, 2001 and the […]
Official Announcement “Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion (via Bloomberg) “Google: We’re Spending $12.5 Billion on Motorola to ‘Protect’ Android” (via AllThingsD/WSJ) Btw, the AllThingsD article also includes a live blog of the conference call and correctly observes that the FTC antitrust about Google probe in the U.S. and a number of investigations […]