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...companies controlled by father and son together account for more than a quarter of the capitalization of the Hong Kong stock market. In the telecom business alone, Li-controlled companies have 60% of Hong Kong's mobile-phone market and virtually the entire fixed-line system. Bricks and mortar? Li is Hong Kong's property king. Now he and son have displayed highly advanced knowledge of how to prosper in the new era of telecoms and the Internet. Richard, for one, sees these talents as anything but local. "These are truly global transactions," he told TIME. The message: watch...
...good human-resources manager can also help fix problems like high employee turnover. In today's supertight labor market, where frequent job hopping no longer raises an eyebrow and stock options are passed around like punch, it's tough holding on to new hires, says Lorie Nevares, founder of StateScape, an online legislative and regulatory information service. Most people who come to work for StateScape are in their 20s. For them, Nevares says, "the job market is like Candyland." She adds, "They find out they can get big money somewhere else, and if a chance comes to jump, they...
...formula that is hardly likely to appeal to a tough-minded American venture capitalist at the top of his game. But there was another side to the equation that led Norman Prouty to head for India three years ago. By his calculation, 40% of all successful high-tech stock IPOs in Silicon Valley were floated by Indian entrepreneurs. Why not go to the source of all that talent and help it reach its full potential by adding venture capital and U.S. business know-how? Prouty's reckoning seems to be paying off. As managing director of ICF Ventures...
...individual gun sellers to follow. "This is a very simple industry, believe it or not, and it just doesn't work that way," says Beatriz Atorresagasti, marketing manager for the RSR Group, based in Winter Park, Fla., the wholesaler that will stop selling Smith & Wessons once its current stock is depleted...
...most of us, the stock market is usually a blur, a swirl of statistics, charts and CNBCNNfn commentators telling us somestockweown or somestockwedon't is up or down. For a few hours last week, however, everything came into focus, and it seemed our (new) economy was clearly moving in the direction indicated by one company: Cisco...