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April 21, 2011 | ||
Insider NewsletterA weekly summary of the best in Bloomberg Businessweek and Businessweek.com | ||
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| FEATURES The Casino Next Door How slot machines snuck into the mall, along with money laundering, bribery, shootouts, and billions in profits COVER STORY Nothing to Do but Start Again A town and a family face their third brush with extinction HARD CHOICES Dave Bing The former Pistons star and current Detroit mayor on trying to reshape a city with dwindling resources and a shrinking population Apple’s Reliance on Japan for Components Put Sales at Risk Japan's earthquake and tsunami will probably weigh on Apple's forecasts for third-quarter profit, sales and gross margin because of higher component prices and disrupted manufacturing COMPUTERS Tablet Market May Surge to $49 Billion Demand for Apple iPads and other devices that bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops may surge by 2015, from close to zero last year, Strategy Analytics says GIGAOM • From GigaOm Google Fiber and Creating the Next Generation ISP With an eye to the insatiable appetite for broadband, Milo Medin discusses Google's big optical fiber project in Kansas City SMART ANSWERS Convince Your City to Keep Independent Businesses First determine which strategy you want your city to take. Then approach council members and economic development officials and tout the economic benefits Obama Signs Law Eliminating 1099 Tax Rule The repealed provision, under which companies would have had to report more transactions to the IRS, was scheduled to take effect in 2012 India Takes Aim at Lavish Weddings Indians may face pressure to limit wedding parties, as the government considers curbing celebrations that highlight a growing wealth gap FINDING A JOB Visa Rules May Spell Trouble for U.K. MBAs Britain's new visa restrictions will give MBAs less time to find work before they're shown the door. U.K. B-schools are worried applicants may go elsewhere AUTO REVIEW First Drive: 2012 Honda Civic Honda's 2012 Civic is still a terrific economy compact, but now new American cars are tough competitors at lower prices EATING AND DRINKING Bordeaux's Annual Rites of Spring Thousands of merchants and journalists descend among Bordeaux's winemakers to sip and spit the promising 2010 vintage Porto Montenegro, the Balkan Riviera The resort is courting Russian oligarchs and minigarchs as it prepares to open for its first season GIGAOM • From GigaOm Amazon Launches Library Lending, But Who Owns the Books? Some publishers want to limit how often a library can lend an e-book. Does that make sense? Crystal Lagoons Adapts Pool Technology to Make Power Plants Safer, Cheaper Fernando Fischmann, a Chilean real estate developer and biochemist, may have a way to use advanced swimming pool filtration to cool power plants efficiently and eliminate their need to be close to natural bodies of water WALLACE'S WORLD Blame High Oil Prices on Speculators and Bernanke It's no secret that speculators are driving up fuel prices. The surprise? It's the Fed's fault, writes Ed Wallace COLUMNS Don't Play with America's Full Faith and Credit Tough calls on U.S. spending must be made as part of a debate about the budget, not amid partisan gamesmanship over whether to raise the U.S. debt ceiling Corporate Profits Streak On the Line Investors betting on another record quarter for earnings surprises await news from 82 companies that report this week
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