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Corporate governance: The doofus factor - THE directors of Yahoo! were “so spooked by being cast as the worst board in the country” that they fired Carol Bartz as chief executive “to show that they’re not the doofuses that they are.” That was Ms Bartz’s typically blunt verdict, offered ...

Pet care in Latin America: Man’s best amigo - BLISS spreads across Lalo’s face as his glossy black locks are blown dry by cooing stylists. Dogs big and small are beautified for 100 pesos ($7.70) in the back of a perspex-walled van run by Fluffy Shower, a mobile pet-salon that visits Mexico ...

More trouble for Yahoo!: Portal exit - Don’t slam the door on your way out WHEN Carol Bartz took the wheel at Yahoo! in January 2009 one of her first acts was to tell employees that she would “drop-kick to fucking Mars” anyone who was caught leaking company secrets. Now it is ...

Intellectual property: Many patents, still pending - AFTER years of dithering, America is set for patent reform. On September 6th a bill proposing to change the system passed its highest procedural hurdle in the Senate. With Barack Obama supportive, this means the America Invents Act ...

Boeing’s woes: Nightmareliner - IT WAS tempting fate to call an ambitious new aircraft the “Dreamliner”. A combination of radical technology and a novel outsourced system of manufacture has turned the Boeing 787 into a nightmare.Since its launch in December 2003, delay ...

Expropriation in Zimbabwe: Your mine is mine - This is what happened to the farms. The mines may be next A DECADE ago Robert Mugabe’s regime seized most of Zimbabwe’s white-owned commercial farms. The president promised to give the land to the landless, but instead gave much of it to his wealthy ...

Oil in Russia: Exxonerated - FOR BP it could hardly have been worse. On August 30th Exxon Mobil struck a deal with Rosneft to explore the same icy blocks of the Arctic Kara Sea that slipped from BP’s grasp when its vaunted tie-up with the Russian state-controlled ...

Doing business in Brazil: Rio or São Paulo? - LAST year Paulo Rezende, a Brazilian private-equity investor, and two partners decided to set up a fund investing in suppliers to oil and gas companies. Although this industry is centred on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second-largest city, with ...

The internet in China: Bashing Baidu - LAST year Google remembered its motto (“Don’t be evil”) and stopped co-operating with China’s censors. Since then, Google has found it much harder to do business in mainland China. The chief beneficiary was Baidu, ...

Japan’s hiring practices: Hello world - You’ve all passed the shouting test. Now, can any of you speak English? RYOSUKE KOBAYASHI is the only Japanese undergraduate in his year at Harvard University. When he applied, he knew no one who could advise him on how to get in. So this week, in a ...

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