Last week Apple shared sales figures and announced its financial results for its most recent quarter. The biggest news is that they have $97,600,000,000 cash on hand. Yes, that’s $97.6 Billion, but about two-thirds of that is sitting in accounts overseas because Apple is a large multinational company that sells it’s products all over the world. […]
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There was a great post everyone was talking about in the New York Times this weekend that highlighted why the U.S. is loosing manufacturing jobs to Asian countries by the boatload. It turns out low labor costs are only a small reason of why American companies choose to manufacture products overseas instead of the United
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As services such as Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody and other alternatives to listen to our favorite music continue to become more popular it seems the days of radio as we know it are numbered. We still listen to broadcast radio because our cars aren’t connected to the internet yet, but over the next few years
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It seems at every business conference or event, specifically those focused on startups or tech you always meet two types of people, the “business guy” and the “tech guy”. The business guy may be the person who goes out and gets funding for the company and markets the business to customers or users. The tech
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2011 has come and gone, Christmas gifts have been unwrapped and we’re officially six days away from a new year. Below is a list of the best companies, organizations and people of 2011 that are making the world a better place…. and a couple that make it a worse one. Thankfully there is much more
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Robert Kiyosaki says if you want to be rich, you need to own a large business and you need to build a strong network. Franchises are one example of a large business. For those that don’t have an extra million dollars lying around to invest though there is network marketing, a business model that has
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As I look over my girlfriend, Ijtsuri Viveros’s power point slides the night before she presents her thesis about the relationship foreign direct investment has on child labor in developing countries, I can’t help but think about the two things every third world country needs before they are able pull themselves out of poverty. The
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On 12 October, 2011 much to the dismay of the remaining protections in the country and a few special interests groups, the United States signed new trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Columbia. Ironically the country that preaches the most about free and uninhibited trade is also the same country with the fewest trade
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Although the situation is getting better, it’s no secret Mexico has been plagued by violence that rivals some of the worst wars going on in the Middle East. It’s become normal to read or hear about several deaths in a single day. The losing war on drugs only became more prevalent when the federal government decided
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“When I was your age I used to walk 10 miles barefoot, uphill, both ways in the snow” Sound familiar? You may have heard this from your Dad, Grandfather or even Great Grandfather. It’s the age old argument generations prior to the current, make about how much harder they used to work and how lazy kids
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