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What The New Facebook News Feed Design Means for Pages

The New Design On Thursday March 6th, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook announced a brand new design for the News Feed. He compared the new look to a newspaper, saying how when people want to read about Sports, they can flip …Read More

Global 2000: World's Biggest Drug Companies 2013

Fri, 03 May 2013 07:10:21 +0000

Business in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Murky minerals

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:59:51 +0000

If you think breaking rocks is hard, try fighting corruption

THE business climate in Congo “is disgusting”, says an adviser to the government in Kinshasa. Any casual visitor has probably noticed. Traffic police stop cars for no reason, force their way in and refuse to leave until paid off. Tax agents arrive at company offices with seven- and eight-figure demands that—of course—can be negotiated down.Small wonder this central African nation’s biggest business—digging in the dirt to extract precious minerals—is so dirty. An expert panel led by Kofi Annan, a former UN secretary-general, looked at five deals struck between 2010 and 2012, and compared the sums for which government-owned mines were sold with independent assessments of their value. It found a gap of $1.36 billion, double the state’s annual budget for health and education. And these deals are just a small subset of all the bargains struck, says the report, which Mr Annan presented in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 10th.Kofi’s queriesThe report highlights some puzzling details. For instance ENRC, a London-listed Kazakh mining firm, waived its rights to buy out a stake in a mining...

America's Most Satisfying Airlines

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:15:07 +0000

Customer satisfaction with North American carriers is at a seven-year high, and improving across the board.

Employers Can Minimize Their Exposure To Obamacare's Health Insurance Mandate By Offering Low-Cost 'Skinny' Coverage

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:50:55 +0000

Last week, I discussed how Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates dramatically expand the power of the Internal Revenue Service. In that piece, I highlighted the fact that the employer mandate gives employers “an incentive to offer coverage that is either ‘unaffordable’ according to Obamacare or that fails to meet the law’s ‘minimum essential requirements.’” Let’s delve into that further, as this aspect of Obamacare is likely to have far-reaching consequences for the way that employers offer health coverage in the future.