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Com queda no lucro, Apple enfrenta crise de identidade
Por JESSICA E. LESSIN e IAN SHERR Numa das divulgações de resultados mais acompanhadas em anos, a Apple Inc. acalmou alguns dos temores de Wall Street, apesar de ter sofrido sua primeira queda no lucro em mais de dez anos e de suscitar novos temores sobre seu crescimento futuro. Os resultados da gigante de tecnologia [...]
River Romantics
By BARRYMORE LAURENCE SCHERER Yonkers, N.Y. The panorama was invented in 1787 by the Scottish artist Robert Barker, whose detailed cityscape of Edinburgh was painted inside a large circular chamber and viewed from the center of that room. Such works remained popular well into the 1820s. And they exerted a marked influence on both the [...]
Is Thierry Henry Worth the Money?
By JONATHAN CLEGG Since his joining the New York Red Bulls three years ago, Thierry Henry has never won Major League Soccer’s most valuable player award. He has never finished as the league’s top goal scorer or led the league in assists. He has won just a single playoff series, has never taken his team [...]
The Roaring Riviera
By LANIE GOODMAN Hotel du Cap-Eden Roc Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc SOME THINGS just don’t change. The Riviera, described nearly a century ago by F. Scott Fitzgerald as a “playground” with a “fairy blue” sea, is still coasting on its mythic allure. Every summer, the palm-fringed stretch from Monaco to St. Raphaël is the place where [...]
Home Swede Home
By J. S. MARCUS Ã ke E:son Lindman Juniper House, designed by Stockholm architects Hans Murman and Ulla Alberts. “If you have five homes,” says Max Hansson, sitting in his 300-year-old farmhouse on Gotland, a large island off Sweden’s Baltic coast, “everything has to work.” Mr. Hansson, 66, is a Gotland native, but he also has [...]
Car Makers Pitch Power as the Ultimate Luxury
By JOSEPH B. WHITE Big luxury car brands are seeking to lure more customers into the elite group that buys their cars by offering more affordable vehicles in their performance lines. Joe White explains why auto makers are betting sin will sell with the everyman. Photo: Mercedes-Benz. In an era when a car’s appeal seems [...]
In With the New Franchisees
By JONNELLE MARTE (Corrections & Amplifications:) Thereâs a youth movement brewing in the franchising world. The Journal Report See the complete Small Business report. Usually, franchisers don’t want to gamble on young entrepreneursâthey prefer seasoned managers who have built up lots of savings to plow into the venture. Now a host of companies are rethinking [...]
Heinz satisfaz apetite de Buffett por ativos seguros
Por DAVID BENOIT, SERENA NG e JOANN S. LUBLIN Warren Buffett voltou a disparar sua espingarda de caçar elefantes. Mas ele tem mais balas na agulha. Dessa vez, ele acertou num alvo bem ao seu gosto, a H.J. Heinz Co., uma marca conhecida mundialmente e uma fiel geradora de lucros. A Berkshire Hathaway, holding do [...]
The New Résumé: It’s 140 Characters
By RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN and LAUREN WEBER Twitter is becoming the new job board. It is also becoming the new résumé. Fed up with traditional recruiting sites and floods of irrelevant résumés, some recruiters are turning to the social network to post jobs, hunt for candidates and research applicants. Some recruiters say Twitter has transformed [...]
La debilidad del yen habría llegado para quedarse
Por NICHOLAS HASTINGS El Banco de Japón no pudo haber pedido más. No sólo tiene un yen más débil, sino que la debilidad de la moneda parece haber llegado para quedarse. Tras semanas de espera, el yen por fin colapsó frente al dólar, lo que proporcionó evidencia de que la polÃtica de fuerte expansionismo monetario [...]