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...ominous as this sounds for Detroit, the flipside is that China represents one of the most promising markets for its products. General Motors' market share in China grew to 12.2% through the first nine months of 2006. GM's main Chinese joint-venture partner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., produces Buicks, Chevrolets, even luxury Cadillac CTS sedans, and in 2006 GM's Chinese sales surged 32% to 876,000 cars and trucks, helping fuel profits in GM's Asia-Pacific region. GM expects sales in China to top 1 million units this year - making it one of the few fast-growing...
...there's some hubris, where they think they know better," Jobs says. "They dictate what's on the phone. That just wouldn't work for us, because we want to innovate. Unless we could do that, it wasn't worth doing." Jobs demanded special treatment from his phone service partner, Cingular, and he got it. He even forced Cingular to re-engineer its infrastructure to handle the iPhone's unique voicemail scheme. "They broke all their typical process rules to make it happen," says Tony Fadell, who heads Apple's iPod division. "They were infected by this product, and they...
...Obama visited Southern California last month to address 1,000 pastors at an AIDS conference in the Orange County mega-church of evangelical leader Rick Warren. But Obama made another stop that evening, a private meet-and-greet in the home of Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, who's a partner in the powerful Endeavor Agency and brother of Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel. A small clatch of celebrities and entertainment industry bigwigs - Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Normal Lear, Christine Lahti and her husband, Studio 60 producer Thomas Schlamme - came out to meet Obama, who hasn't officially announced his candidacy...
...Leede Arena in the Ivy League opener for both teams.The Crimson (7-8, 0-1 Ivy) played much better than in its previous game, an 81-48 stinker at UC Irvine, but could not make as many plays down the stretch as its rival and Ivy League travel partner from up north.“It was an extra-round fight,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “I think both teams were punch-drunk at the end. Dartmouth made use of great opportunities and was very effective down the stretch...
...Hoffman, a partner with the New York-based firm Outten & Golden, said there is more at stake in this case than the denial of Bailey for a full time position. Hoffman filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claiming that the use of credit scores to determine employment eligibility is discriminatory against minorities because minorities are more likely to have credit problems...