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February 4, 2011 | ||
Insider NewsletterA weekly summary of the best in Bloomberg Businessweek and Businessweek.com | ||
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| COVER STORY The Youth Unemployment Bomb From Cairo to London to Brooklyn, too many young people are jobless and disaffected. Inside the global effort to put the next generation to work FEATURES The Happiest Man in Detroit Ford CEO Alan Mulally took a broken car company and made it the world's most profitable. Here's why this fairy-tale turnaround is still far from complete FEATURES Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical Never mind enormous yachts: Peter Thiel is spending his billions on space travel, life extension, artificial intelligence, and paying top students not to go to college SOCIAL MEDIA Photo-Sharing Service Instagram Gets $7 Million in Funding The popular newcomer may be the next leader in Web photo-sharing. Benchmark Capital and Twitter's Jack Dorsey are among its latest investors Freescale Picks Deutsche, Citigroup to Handle Its IPO The chipmaker owned by private-equity firms including Blackstone Group and TPG Capital picks Deutsche Bank and Citigroup to handle its initial public offering VIEWPOINT Startup Visa Act: Good But Not Enough The Kerry/Lugar bill tying work visas to economic growth is a good start, but it's too little to help the U.S. meet global competition CEO GUIDE TO THE MICRO WORKFORCE Mechanical Serfdom Is Just That I spent a day crowdsourcing for Amazon's Mechanical Turk and all I have to show for eight hours in an online work marketplace is a measly $4.38 VIEWPOINT In Broken Market, 'Swipe' Fees Must Be Regulated Small merchants pay too much to process credit- and debit-card transactions. The Fed's proposed rules will be far more fair—unless big banks and card issuers block them EUROPE Dmitry Medvedev on Investment and Security in Russia The Russian President talks with Bloomberg Television about the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, terrorism, and more EATING AND DRINKING Where to Eat Well While Spending Less in Paris: Michelin’s Pick Michelin's new Bib Gourmand awards identifies a record 601 French restaurants to find a good meal for under $45 EATING AND DRINKING Stags’ Leap Winemaker Loves to Torture His Grapes: John Mariani Despite global wine glut, Stags' Leap's Christophe Paubert is adding market share thanks to sophisticated, low-alcohol wines THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS Slamming Down Under Kicking off the 2011 Grand Slam, this year's Australian Open is full of fund-raising, fashion, and Federer THE INNOVATION ENGINE Are Your Customers Cheating on You? Maybe it's time to make like Dr. Ruth and spice up the relationship MANAGEMENT Embedding Innovation in Leadership The Tuck School's Vijay Govindarajan and GE's Susan Peters highlight lessons for putting innovation into practice SMART ANSWERS Take a 'Proven' New Technology to Market Experts evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of an acquisition or merger, licensing the product, or selling it to customers independently Bond ‘Sensation’ Should Make Investors Nervous Just because investors are piling into euro rescue bonds doesn't mean they are a solid investment, says Matthew Lynn CORPORATE EXECUTIVE BOARD • From Corporate Executive Board The Real Danger of the Down Economy For organizations that do B2B sales and marketing, short-term survival could mean long-term demise JEFF SCHMITT: FROM THE BOTTOM UP Elegy for a Fired Executive When a corporation casts aside a respected president, the author needs to do some sorting out and soul searching
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