…tion, alienate coworkers, and fail to capitalize on networking opportunities. These are seven common office party blunders. Heed them. Some are missed opportunities, but some may cost you your career. 1. Drink too much at the office party Drinking too much at the office party is the most egregious offense. It’s not just the drinking, though anything excessive is inappropriate at an office part…
Facebook has been dealt another blow after Zynga, the gaming company responsible for much of its revenue, announced that it was slashing its outlook for the year. Facebook shares had slipped by 2.5% to $21.41 by Friday afternoon after Zynga announced that its number of paying customers had fallen. Analysts have once again reduced their expectations for Facebook over fears that the company is over…
Coca-Cola Company takes the risk after almost 90 years and moves its ultra-secret recipe out of a bank vault to put it on display at their corporate museum. The formula, which dates back to 1886, is enclosed inside a metal box that is itself locked inside a new high-tech vault at the company’s World of Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta. Since 1925, Coca-Cola recipe has been kept under lock and ke…
…. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel also announced his plans early too but his return was beyond anything he could have hoped for. He wrote Mark Zuckerberg a cheque for $500,000 in 2004 but has offloaded 16.8 million shares for the tidy profit of $633 million. Among the others to cash out was Mark Pincus, the chief executive of online gaming company Zynga. Eight years ago he gave Facebook a cheque fo…
…e peace and justice.” “We believe government resources are more productively used in meeting human needs than in building and maintaining weapons systems.” The Ben & Jerry’s company was founded in 1978 and launched a “Hubby Hubby” ice-cream in support of same-sex marriage in 2009. Ben & Jerry’s also launched a “Yes Pecan” flavor to celebrate Barack Obama’s becoming U.S. president. Th…
Facebook has now surpassed one billion people using it every month, the company has said. The passing of the milestone was announced by founder Mark Zuckerberg on US television on Thursday. The company said that those billion users were to date responsible for 1.13 trillion “likes”, 219 billion photos and 17 billion location check-ins. The site, which was launched in 2004, is now look…
…Vibram’s Concord address, something was wrong. All of a sudden, Tony Post says he realized: “Oh my God, this is counterfeit product.” Within months, his office had received more than 1,000 returned pairs. The shoes all looked similar to the original – with rubber soles and vinyl tops, and the distinctive colorful, reptilian look. But Tony Post and his team of employees R…
…tion was almost entirely driven by the Star Wars franchise. Star Wars creator George Lucas has sold his film production company Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company George Lucas launched Lucasfilm in 1971 and the first Star Wars film was released in 1977. “For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next,” George Luca…
…role in the combined firm. Mining company Xstrata has formally announced plans to merge with the world's biggest commodity trader, Glencore The valuation of Xstrata translates to a share price of 1,290 p – compared with the 1,100 p at which shares were trading before news of the deal emerged last week. Xstrata’s shareholders – other than Glencore – would have a 45% sta…
Wall Street analysts have predicted that Apple will become the world’s first trillion-dollar company when its shares top $1,000 each. Apple’s shares were worth $633.38 last week as its stock price rose above Google’s for the first time. Brian White, of Topeka Capital Markets, then claimed Apple’s sky-high share price will hit four figures within 12 months – making th…
…ns in November, Hostess had said it would retain about 3,000 workers to shutter plants and perform other tasks. The following month, an attorney for Hostess said in court that figure was down to about 1,100 employees. The liquidation of Hostess ultimately means the loss of about 18,000 jobs, not including those shed in the years leading to the company’s failure. The company’s demise ca…
LucasArts, the games developer responsible for the Star Wars series of games, will be shut down by the Walt Disney Company. Disney plans to license the Star Wars games brand to other developers. However, Star Wars 1313, which has already been developed for demonstration at industry events is expected to be halted. Disney inherited LucasArts in October last year, when it bought LucasFilm for $4.05…
…n intelligence agencies have a bleaker view than the more positive statements from the Pentagon. In a classified assessment delivered to the White House last month, the Central Intelligence Agency and 15 other American intelligence agencies concluded that the war was at a stalemate and that military progress had been undermined by Afghan corruption, a weak central government and fighters infiltrat…
A Facebook update will make users to become unwitting corporate ambassadors under plans by the company to allow the site’s main news feed to carry sponsorship messages carrying their mugshots. Beginning in the New Year, so-called “sponsored stories” appear in the main news feed that Facebook users’ friends see. At present, if you click to “like” a product, it does not always appear in…
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…n 2000. Yahoo was forced to fire more than 600 staff – around 5% of its workforce – in 2010 due to lacklustre growth. Yahoo shares jumped 74 cents (5.7%) to $13.65 in after-hours trading, around 12% higher than they were when Carol Bartz was named chief executive. Roy Bostock has decided to let Carol Bartz go after Yahoo posted more disappointing financial results In the last months specula…
…traordinary gifts.” The Apple Home page has revealed that Steve Jobs had died The homepage of Apple’s website this evening switched to a full-page image of Jobs with the text, “Steve Jobs 1955-2011″. Clicking on the image revealed the additional text: “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. “Those of us who have been fortun…
…igrant and said she was besotted with him – but now she admits she had a “lucky escape”. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a stand-off with police four days after he and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, apparently set off two bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15. Since the terror attack, which left three by-standers dead and more than 270 injured, Tsarnaev brothers’ interest in Islamic…
Kim Kardashian and her famous sisters recently launched the Kardashian Kollection at Dorothy Perkins in London, and reportedly send the Duchess of Cambridge a load of free clothing, only to get them send straight back. According to The Examiner, Kate Middleton politely declined to accept any of the free clothing received from Kim Kardashian. The Kardashian Kollection features a lot of figure-hugg…
…w “The View” in 2007. Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell got engaged in May this year. The wedding took place at the same venue where Paul McCartney married his first wife, Linda Eastman, in 1969. Linda McCartney died of breast cancer, aged 56, thirteen years ago. Nancy Shevell is the daughter of a New Jersey trucking magnate. Nancy is an executive at her father’s company, New Engl…
…isaster will continue until the whole ship has been searched. The rescue operation continued overnight in dry parts of the Costa Concordia. Divers are now going into submerged parts at depths of up to 14 m with explosives to open up previously unsearched areas. Reports say the grounded vessel is shifting at a rate of a few millimetres per hour. If the ship slips into deeper water, fuel tanks could…
The Walt Disney Company has reported higher profits in the second quarter of this year, driven by the success of films such as The Avengers. Net income for the three months to June rose 24% to $1.83 billion from the previous year. “We had a phenomenal third quarter, delivering the largest quarterly earnings in the history of our company,” said Robert Iger, Disney’s chief executi…
…Queensland Tourism Queensland CEO Anthony Hayes said the move was a considerable “coup” for Queensland. “It’s a wonderful free kick after all that’s happened in the past 12 months,” Anthony Hayes said. “It sends a great message to all of the Queensland tourism industry that things are picking up again.” A XXXX Gold spokeswoman said it was a great wa…
An anonymous author who works in the pharmaceutical industry wrote several anonymous editorials in this weeks British Medical Journal in which they claim: “Some of the [post-marketing] studies I worked on were not designed to determine the overall risk/benefit balance of the drug in the general population. They were designed to support and disseminate a marketing message.” According to the writer…
Patrick Ricard, head of the global spirits company Pernod Ricard, whose father founded the Ricard firm, has died at the age of 67. The firm said Patrick Ricard had passed away on Friday. French media reports suggested he had heart problems. Paul Ricard founded the company, which began selling the anise-flavoured liqueur pastis, in Marseille in 1932. His son transformed the firm into the second la…
North Korea releases Chinese fishing crew The Chinese fishing crew seized by North Koreans two weeks ago has been freed along with their boat, reports say. The 16-man crew was taken captive by unidentified North…
China urges North Korea to release Yu Xuejun's fishing boat captured for $100,000 ransomChina has called on North Korea to secure the release of a fishing boat and its crew seized earlier this month. Owner Yu Xuejun said the vessel had been in Chinese waters…
Zahra Shahid Hussain funeral: Murdered PTI's vice-president buried in KarachiThe funeral of the murdered vice-president of Pakistan's PTI party, Zahra Shahid Hussain, has been held at a mosque in the country’s capital, Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain…
Imran Khan blames MQM's Altaf Hussain for Zahra Shahid Hussain's killing in KarachiFormer cricketer Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's PTI party, has blamed one of his political rivals for the killing of PTI vice-president Zahra Shahid Hussain. Zahra…
Zahra Shahid Hussain shot dead in KarachiSenior Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's…
North Korea fires short-range missiles from its east coastNorth Korea has launched three short-range missiles from its east coast, South Korea's defence ministry said. Two missiles were fired on Saturday morning and one in the…
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