Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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These mergers are creating a single global-business culture in which national interests no longer determine corporate behavior. Shareholder value is the new mantra in Europe, where corporate control has long been clubby, and the shareholders of an Aventis or a DaimlerChrysler are now as likely to be a California...
Europe is becoming more competitive just as its economic prospects look better than at any time in a decade. Business and consumer confidence is on the uptick, and there are indications the region is on the cusp of a period of extended growth, perhaps equal to the near decade of...
The two companies on the list from the smart-card sector are Gemplus and a smaller German firm, ASG. They are both well positioned to cash in on the mobile-commerce craze, says Caroline Martin, an e-commerce analyst in the London office of Datamonitor. So-called SIM cards are...
Before the boom, when the current agave crop was being planted, the international market for tequila was decidedly downscale. "People knew tequila as what they drank in college to get drunk," says Alex Alejandro, co-owner of New York City's oldest Mexican restaurant, El Parador. The restaurant has stocked...
That's why privacy advocates are so nervous about DoubleClick. Not only is the New York City-based company the 500-lb. gorilla of online advertising--serving banner ads to 1,800 commercial sites that represent nearly 50% of all Web traffic--but it also has ambitious plans to merge...