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Only three or four years ago, high-paying jobs were largely limited to India's famed technology sector, centered in the southern city of Bangalore--only engineering geeks needed apply. Now more diverse foreign businesses are taking advantage of India's low-cost, highly educated work force. Add the fast-growing Indian companies, especially in the service sector, and the result is that good jobs become available to anyone with a college degree. Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's largest mobile-phone service provider, has hired 1,600 customer-service staff over the past two years. Wipro Spectramind had only...
...Puma will showcase its latest sneaker collaboration with Yasuhiro Mihara, Japan's version of a younger, spikier Manolo Blahnik. Ironically, the decision of these high-fashion designers to come down from their ateliers and mix with the skateboard set is less their own than the imperative of the one sector of Japan's lackluster economy that's still spending: the nation's youngsters. "Like it or not, we are defined by our youth culture," says Mihara, himself sporting a Grateful Dead T shirt and a baseball cap emblazoned with the word kooky...
...hard to fathom the considerable prodding it took to get Whitman on board. Then at toymaker Hasbro, she hesitated to uproot her family from Boston to join "this obscure Internet company" out in California. And even after she signed on, there were difficult times. The falling Internet sector dragged the company's stock down to a low of $30 a share. And in May a federal jury ruled that eBay should pay $35 million in damages for infringing on the patent of a Virginia firm that developed fixed-pricing technology; eBay has challenged the jury's decision. But Whitman persevered...
...Constantly evolving and mutating, Chatuchak?probably the largest market on the planet?is split into 26 sectors sprawling over 112,000 square meters. There are more than 10,000 retailers, stocking everything from mass-produced teak furniture to great bolts of raw Thai silk, to bushels of imitation fruit and vegetables. The sartorial detritus of yesteryear, shipped to Thailand by U.S. and Japanese wholesalers, can be found in the 400 or so ramshackle stalls crammed into Sector...
...reach the southern end of Sector 6, a bloodcurdling screech rends the steamy, tropical air. Chatuchak is notorious for the exotic wildlife on sale, but the wailing is coming from the Ya Shop. Here, staff take turns in belting out tunes via a karaoke system, and a kid of about 12, decked out in 1970s Elvis shades, tight, dove-gray slacks and a snow-white Kangol cap, is happily murdering Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately. Ya Shop stocks the widest range of cheesy, fitted polyester shirts in Chatuchak (from 100 baht, or $2.50, upwards). But rather than...