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...reticence is a big mistake, Forrester says, because the growth in online sales shows no signs of easing. In Europe alone, total online sales should rocket 63% from an estimated $246 billion this year, to $401 billion in 2011, it predicts. In the U.S., total sales are expected to soar 93% from last year to $335 billion in 2012. Premium brand companies that are selling online expect their total sales to jump 111% within five years, by which point they will account for 22% of total sales. And selling on the web can help boost a company's brick...
Just hours before the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas went into effect Thursday morning, a 24-year-old Gaza militant with a death wish, named Yusef, fired a last fusillade of rockets, and made a run for it. He watched the five rockets soar into the sky and streak towards southern Israel. Then, Yusef did a stupid thing: he crept back to retrieve the rocket-launcher. By now, he was in the cross hairs of an Israeli drone, which had spotted him creeping along a wall, under a bough of orange bougainvillea. The remote controllers of the pilotless aircraft...
...Such aid is a stopgap solution to problems that have been brewing for years, but have only recently gone critical due to several complex factors: soaring oil prices; massive amounts of farmland diverted into producing biofuels; and crop failures from freak weather, including droughts in Australia and Europe and last month's cyclone in Burma (Myanmar). At the same time, millions of people in China and India can now afford to buy more food and eat more grain-fed meat, causing world food demand to soar...
...historic victory also made ripples well beyond America’s borders. At the Harvard Kennedy School’s Class Day ceremony yesterday, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf told graduates to “think big” and “let your dreams soar...
...other words, Best Buy allows its workers limitless flexibility - in the hours they keep and the location they choose to do business - so long as project goals are satisfied. Sound kooky? It is. So kooky that Best Buy has seen productivity soar 41% between 2005 and 2007 on ROWE teams. Meanwhile, voluntary turnover plunged 90%, saving the company some $16 million a year. Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson has embraced the program and has applied it to 80% of the staff at headquarters. Ressler and Thompson, who have since left Best Buy to found a consulting company called CultureRx, have...