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Daimler AG, with its businesses Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler Trucks, Daimler Financial Services, Mercedes-Benz Vans and Daimler Buses, is a globally leading producer of premium passenger cars and the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in the world. Daimler sells its products in nearly all the countries of the world and has production facilities on five continents.
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The Dan L. Duncan Family Foundation was started by cancer survivor and Dan L. Duncan and his family. Last year, Duncan and his family gave $50 million to Texas Children's Hospital. This builds on a $100 million gift in 2006 to the Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. Dan Duncan and his family were named to BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the 50 Top American Givers, which recognizes the most generous U.S. philanthropists.
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University of Virginia's full-time MBA program at Darden School of Business is the choice of those who want the benefits of a big-name school with small class attention. Darden is popular among students concentrating on consulting, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, and marketing. The school is known for its challenging case method of instruction in a collaborative environment.
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In order to keep with decreased IT budgets, many companies are looking at options for data center automation. This topic covers the most relevant content and trends in data center automation.
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Data loss prevention (DLP) is a computer security term that refers to systems that discover, monitor, and protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used, across endpoints, networks, and storage systems. DLP systems are designed to detect and prevent the unauthorized use and transmission of confidential information. This topic covers the latest trends in data loss prevention.
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Data mining explores how companies and individuals are creating new businesses and services by searching out patterns in electronic data. It focuses especially on how people’s lives increasingly are data mined and modeled, as analysts study the behavior of shoppers, voters, patients, workers and potential terrorists.
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After Siemen's, already with a black eye from numerous bribery scandals, was accused of posting trade secrets from stolen data of a competitor, more companies are looking into data protection and privacy. Organizations need to look for the best methods of data protection and privacy.
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The world today is extremely reliant on its data. From business databases, company web sites, hospital records, and more, organizational data maintenance has become intense and extremely important. This topic covers the latest on data storage, including the challenges companies face and the best way to store data for the long and short term.
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The main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. It doesn’t mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful. This topic covers the latest news on the presentation and communication of data in compelling ways.
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Dimensional Fund Advisors CEO David Booth and his wife, Suzanne Deal Booth, gave $300 million to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in November. The gift to bolster the school's endowment is among the largest ever to a U.S. university and the most ever to a business school. David and Suzanne Deal Booth were named to BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the 50 Top American Givers, which recognizes the most generous U.S. philanthropists.
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David Koch, Koch Industries executive vice president, was named to BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the 50 Top American Givers, which recognizes the most generous U.S. philanthropists. Koch is committed to funding innovations in prostate cancer research in the quest for a cure. Last year he donated $100 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to fund research into the disease. This year he donated $100 million toward the renovation of the New York State Theater.
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The David Rockefeller Fund manages the charitable giving of its namesake, who in 2008 donated $100 million to Harvard University – the largest single donation by an alumnus to date. To mark his 90th birthday in 2005, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller Sr. gave $100 million apiece to New York's Museum of Modern Art and Rockefeller University. David Rockefeller was named to BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the 50 Top American Givers, which recognizes the most generous U.S. philanthropists.
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The 2010 World Economic Forum is scheduled to take place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from January 27 to 30. The World Economic Forum is an independent not-for-profit Swiss foundation, which holds to its motto “entrepreneurship in the global public interest.” This topic will cover any information building up to the Davos World Economic Forum as well as follow-up from the forum.
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Day trading is the activity of engaging in frequent purchase and sale transactions and is generally viewed as short-term investing. Originally an occupation for bank or investment firm employees, day trading, also called active trading, has become a common informal practice with the development of margin trading and electronic trading.
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Wall Street is hot for death bonds--a security that packages together the proceeds for unwanted life insurance policies, or life settlements. In recent years, Wall Street investment banks have been moving into the life settlements market with an eye toward buying up unwanted life insurance policies and either packaging them as securities, or derivatives that can be sold to institutional investors. Death bonds and life settlements are seen as uncorrelated investment asset.
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The debit card industry is a multi-billion dollar machine that helps drive bank profits and point-of-purchase consumer sales. Growing in popularity, debit cards are also redefining traditional payment options in the business and government sectors, with things such as food stamps, unemployment, benefits, and payroll being dispersed through debit cards. This topic covers the debit card industry’s growth, as we move to an even more digital society without less need for paper money.
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As more consumers fall behind on their bills, the debt business is booming. Municipalities are recruiting debt collectors to wrangle taxes from residents. Troubled banks are selling off soured credit-card and other loans to bolster their books. Hospitals are enlisting firms to track down delinquent patients. The industry's revenues are expected to grow 6% annually for the next three years. But critics fear debt collectors will become more aggressive as more borrowers struggle.
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Debt elimination is top of mind with many people defaulting on their mortgages and other loans. Eliminating consumer and mortgage debt can be done many ways -- through consolidation plans, refinancing the debt, making bi-weekly payments, and the more controversial money merge accounts. This topic tracks the latest news on debt elimination.
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The debt settlement industry has been under fire by a number of states for questionable practices. There is a lot of fast moving news and information coming out about the debt settlement industry. This topic covers the latest.
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Debt workouts are strategies that eliminate or reduce debt without filing for bankruptcy. The best strategies include preserving assets while eliminating debt. These procedures are appropriate for Small Business Association guaranteed debt workouts, 941 payroll defaults, and other secured or unsecured debt obligations in default. Debt workouts primarily focus on business debt issues, allowing small business owners a second chance without losing all they have built up.
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Decision making process (DMP) is a strategic activity to organizational, economical, and societal life. DMP is also a key component of time management skills. In fact, the manager that wants to lead effectively needs to be able to make correct decisions. Choosing what to change, looking at a decision from different perspectives, seeing whether a decision makes financial sense, and analyzing whether an idea is financially viable are a few important parts of the decision making process.
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Deere & Company is one of the world’s two largest makers of farm equipment and is also a leading producer of construction, forestry, industrial, and lawn-care equipment. The company is famously known by its most popular brand, John Deere, with its “nothing runs like a Deere” slogan. Deere & Company was founded in 1837 and is based in Moline, Illinois.
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Only a few years ago, U.S. politicians talked about a "peace dividend" as the Cold War wound down. Instead, the Pentagon's proposed $515 billion budget for defense spending in 2009 is the highest since World War II, adjusted for inflation. Should that money, as it flows to the defense industry, go toward a military that’s more stripped down and retrofitted for battles against insurgents and terrorists? Or should the defense industry be gearing up for a more traditional confrontation?
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Many companies are changing their employee retirement and pension plans. This topic follows the decline of traditional pensions and rise of alternatives, such as 401(k) plans and hybrid plans.
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Once the dominant personal computer maker, Dell has fallen on hard times and is now struggling to catch up to rivals like Hewlett-Packard in PCs and Apple in music. This is the place to discuss Dell and its CEO Michael Dell.
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Delphi Corp. is one of the world’s largest suppliers of auto parts, making everything mechanical and electrical/electronic that goes into cars. Delphi’s primary business divisions are electrical/electronic architecture; power train systems; electronics and safety; and thermal systems. Spun off from General Motors in 1999, 37 % of the company’s business still comes from its former parent company.
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Delta Air Lines, Inc., and its subsidiaries, fly to more than 375 destinations, across five continents. It is the only major U.S. airline that flies to Africa. In addition, Delta announced that it has plans to initiate service to Australia in 2008, which will make it the only current American air carrier to serve every continent, excluding Antarctica. Delta was founded in 1924 and is based in Atlanta.
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Denver real estate tracks news and information on the real estate market in Denver and its suburbs. This topic will include information important to buyers and sellers in the Denver area as well as market statistics, general real estate information, and more.
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A derivative security is a financial security, such as an option or future, whose value is derived in part from the value and characteristic of an underlying asset. Common derivatives include future contracts, forward contracts, options and swaps. This topic covers the latest news on derivative securities.
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Design management is an approach whereby organizations make design-relevant decisions in a market and customer-oriented way as well as optimizing design-relevant (enterprise-)processes. It is a long-continuous comprehensive activity on all levels of business performance that effect design, from the fuzzy front-end to the design execution. Design management acts in the interface of management and design and functions as link between the platforms of technology, design, design thinking, corporate management, brand management and marketing management at internal and external interfaces of the enterprise.
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Design research is a relatively new approach to design aimed at investigating customers’ needs. It is an essential part of new product development, since it facilitates the most difficult stage in creating a new product -- the front end of innovation at which customer needs are identified and synthesized in the design brief. Unlike a market research approach, design research understands people and practices in the context of their whole life, not a narrowly defined customer experience.
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Design Thinking is a popular catch phrase for a more multi-disciplined approach to solving problems and tapping into authentic innovation -- the 'HOW' we do business. Unlike analytical thinking, design thinking is a creative process based on the "building up" of ideas. There are no judgments or fear of failure. This topic will cover that latest on design thinking, including efforts to redefine the idea of capitalism by blending the conversations around design thinking and social enterprise.
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This topic explores the process of conceiving, engineering, and designing portable computers. Since 1968, when Alan Kay first conceived of the portable computer, inventors, engineers, and designers have been on a quest to design smaller, more powerful, and easier-to-use portable devices. Notebook computers have been refined to the point where very powerful computers can be packaged in very small containers. Now the challenge is to make smartphones the personal computer of the 21st Century.
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Deutsche Bank, one of the largest banks in the world, offers retail services in Germany. Its investment bank and asset management business spans Europe, the Pacific Rim, and the Americas. Deutsche Bank operates in three divisions; corporate and investment bank, private clients and asset management, and corporate investments. Deutsche Bank has about 1,900 locations worldwide, more than half of which are in Germany.
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG is one of largest airlines in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried, and is the world’s fifth-largest airline by overall passengers carried. It offers services to 209 destinations in 81 countries, and with its partners Lufthansa services travels to some 410 destination. Deutsche Lufthansa separates its business into five segments: Passenger Transportation, Logistics, MRO, Catering, and IT Services. Based in Cologne, it operates some 531 aircraft.
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DHL is one of the world’s largest global delivery networks. Working in more than 220 countries and territories, DHL specializes in providing customers with innovative and customized transportation solutions. Founded in San Francisco in 1969, DHL is a Deutsche Post World Net brand. This topic cover the latest news and information on DHL.
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Type 2 diabetes is the fastest-growing major health problem in the United States and much of the world, a major contributor to heart disease, kidney disease, vision loss and other ailments. Diabetes of all types presents a vast and growing field for pharmaceutical manufacturers, makers of medical devices, medical researchers and health care providers.
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Diageo plc, formed in 1997 by a merger of GrandMet and Guinness, is the world's leading premium beer, wine and spirits company with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands. It is a global company, trading in over 180 markets around the world. Diageo’s popular brands include Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Ketel One, Tanqueray, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Baileys and Seagram’s.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. (DKS), a sporting goods retailer, operates some 340 stores in some 35 states that sell sporting goods equipment, apparel, and footwear for men, women, and children. Headquartered in Findlay Township, at the Pittsburgh International Airport, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dick's Sporting Goods is now one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the world.
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As the nation looks to alternative sources of energy to fuel its cars, clean burning diesel cars have been touted as “greener” than some hybrid cars. Diesel cars tracks news and commentary about diesel automobiles.
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Americans spend an estimated $40 million a year on weight-loss programs and products. Clearly the diet industry continues to boom, as the consumer market continues to be flooded with books, pills, gadgets, and fads all to tantalize our fantasies our achieving that “perfect” size. This topic cover the latest news on the diet and weight loss industry.
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Digg.com is a site where people can discover and share content from anywhere on the Web by submitting links and stories. Users can then vote (or Digg) stories up and down, the most popular appearing on the front page of the site. Digg has many additional features like the Diggbar and Digg Dialoggs, where users can suggest and vote on questions to be asked of high-profile individuals during Digg interviews.
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This topic looks at the latest news in the world of digital advertising. How much is a click really worth? What's going on with video ads? And how does Google make all its money.
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Digital asset management consists of tasks and decisions surrounding ingesting, annotating, cataloguing, storing, and retrieving digital assets, such as photographs, animations, videos and music. As technology continues to drive business, more companies are realizing the need to manage their digital assets. This topic covers the latest news, information, and trends on digital asset management.
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The digital world surrounds our business lives and impacts how we get work done. Also, digital businesses continue to grow at a rapid pace. This topic offers comprehensive coverage of digital business -- from news and information on media, technology, telecom, and beyond.
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This topic covers the digital transformation of our movie houses, including discussions of live digital performance (digital broadcast of live entertainment to theaters and digital cinemas); the real-time distribution of music, theater, dance, opera and other arts events to audiences gathered in remote locations; Cinecasting; 3-D; and more. Can this revive the movie business?
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Digital media is a broad term used to describe any digital communications being used in the media. This includes digital video, podcasts, and more. This topic will track the latest news and information on digital media.
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Digital media management will discuss effective ways to manage digital content and how that differs from traditional media, and will include information on how to manage secure and cost-effective storage. This topic also delves into the best ways to share or transfer content across different locations, both internally and externally for syndication; monitoring digital rights and royalty information; and content preparation that can be delivered on various platforms.
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Digital is no longer the future. Track the latest news and views on digital media sales here.
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As we all use the Internet for more things in our lives, digital privacy continues to be a hot button issue. This topic looks at just how much online companies know about you, who they are selling the info to, and the effort to keep what they know under wraps.
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Digital Public Relations, also referred to as online public relations or new media PR, is the practice of leveraging online media, search and the social web as channels of communication, engagement and influence.
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Whether you are in newspapers, magazines, books, or textbooks, new media are changing the publishing landscape. Digital publishing options abound, and some media houses are now choosing the all-digital route. This topic tracks the latest news and information on content creation, content development, delivery, intellectual property issues, content management, and technology as it relates to digital publishing.
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Copyright is an integral part of the information industry. In this digital world, should publishers defend their publications or be promiscuous with this property? Is copyright dead? Discuss the various publishing sectors dealing with content piracy on the Internet and related debates about the real value of content: piracy as a business model, copyright awareness campaigns, filtering technologies, and the value of traditional publishing brands vs. user-generated content.
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Google has a patent on it; and Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Adobe have entered the game. Digital signage (DS) is the fastest growing new media behind the Internet and branded entertainment – it enjoys double digit growth even in today's tough economy. Digital signage is used to lower costs, increase revenue, and create high impact messages for corporate communications, campuses, health care facilities, retail outlets, banks, government, military, etc. DS is also a green option to paper media.
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In a tough period catalyzing the ongoing fragmentation of the audiences, media decision makers have to reduce the production costs of their video programs and invent new ways to increase the revenue opportunities. Online video syndication covers the latest news on how companies are syndicating their video content.
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Digital printing is the reproduction of digital images on a physical surface. It is generally used for short print runs, and for the customization of print media. The process differs from lithography, flexography, gravure, and letterpress printing in several ways: * Every print can be different, because printing plates are not required, as in traditional methods. * There is less wasted chemical and paper, because there is no need to bring the image "up to colour" and check for registration and position. * The ink or toner does not permeate the substrate, as does conventional ink, but forms a thin layer on the surface and may in some systems be additionally adhered to the substrate by using a fuser fluid with heat process (toner) or UV curing process (ink).
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Dillard's, Inc. (DDS) operates retail department stores primarily in the southeastern, southwestern, and midwestern U.S. It has some 300 locations in 30 states, catering to upper-middle-income women. Women’s apparel and accessories account for a third of sales at Dillard’s, which sells name-brand and private-label merchandise, mainly apparel and home furnishings. Founded in 1938, the Dillard family members control nearly all of the company’s voting shares and continue to run the chain.
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Direct marketing is a form of marketing most commonly done via leaflets, brochures, letters, catalogs, or print or digital ads mailed, emailed, or distributed directly to current and potential consumers. The direct marketing process should also include database management, telecommunications, and digital media access. Marketers should take full advantage of the technological advancements made to enhance direct marketing outreach.
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Directories and directory Web sites are faced with a very particular challenge: much of the information they contain is far more static in nature than news, blogs, and related Web site “standards.” To some degree, the same holds true for catalogs and catalog Web sites. This topic covers trends in directory listings in print and online.
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Disability insurance pays an insured person an income when that person is unable to work because of an accident or illness. Does it make sense to buy disability insurance on top of employer-paid short-term sick leave and/or longer-term employer-paid disability coverage?
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Formerly a business segment of Morgan Stanley, Discover Financial Services is best-known for its Discover-brand credit cards, which are used by some 50 million members. Discover Card, the third-largest credit card brand in the U.S. (by cards in force), repays cardholders a percentage of the purchase price each time the card is used. Discover Financial Services also has a payment-processing network and owns the PULSE Network ATM system.
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Englewood, CO-based DISH Network, formerly EchoStar Communications, is the No. 2 provider of direct broadcast satellite TV in the U.S. (behind DIRECTV). The company serves more than 13 million subscribers -- both home viewers and business customers. DISH has partnerships with ISPs and voice communications providers, including Earthlink, Qwest, and Sprint Nextel, to offer bundles services. Co-founder and CEO Charlie Ergen owns about 50% of DISH’s equity and about 80% of the vote.
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Advances in educational technology have made distance learning programs a viable alternative to attending bricks-and-mortar campuses. This is a forum to discuss technologies, programs, and outcomes.
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Domain Names are, very simply put, an individual's or company's identity online. Unlike the offline world where many of us can have the same names, on the online world this isn't possible. Online, there can only be one unique identifier for each one of us. This topic follows the domain name industry and the ongoing struggle to best identify oneself and the services we offer in this digital world.
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The Donald Bren Foundation’s philanthropic focus is on education, conservation and research. As chairman of the Irvine Company, a privately held real estate company based in Newport Beach, Calif., Bren’s charitable giving has included endowing distinguished professor chairs at Caltech, the University of California, Chapman University and Marine Corps University. Bren was named to BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the 50 Top American Givers, which recognizes the most generous U.S. philanthropists.
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The Dow Chemical Company is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world. This topic covers the latest on Dow Chemical including strategy implementation, financial performance, and stock performance.
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Dredging activities at ports are done to increase the drift so that large vessels can navigate freely and deliver cargo. The dredging industry goes beyond this, with the larger goal of making the waters safe for all to use. This topic covers issues, events, people, equipment, companies, and other news relevant to the dredging industry.
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Pharmaceutical companies are bombarding the airwaves with TV ads, showering doctors with gifts to get them to prescribe more of their drugs, and practicing other marketing tactics that can get them into hot water. The topic of drug marketing will examine the myriad ways the industry pushes its products -- and the inevitable controversies that result.
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As the prices of prescription drugs skyrocket in oncology and other disease areas, there is a danger payers will scale back coverage of these life-saving products. How can society cope with these escalating drug costs? Where is this crisis headed, and what measures are drug companies, regulators and lawmakers willing or able to implement?
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Dry cleaners are viable businesses that are needed throughout the country. This topic covers the news and information on the dry cleaning industry, including challenges to opening a store and the trends to more organic methods.
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Dubai, the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates, is the business hub of the region. Unlike other cities with UAE, oil and gas only account for about six percent of the city’s economy. Meanwhile, real estate and construction contributes about 23 percent economy. Dubai business covers the latest news and information on the city’s business climate.
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Dubai’s economy was built on the back of the oil industry, yet revenue from petroleum and natural gas account for less than 10% of the countries GDP. Dubai has large banking and tourist industries that contribute to the country’s economy. In last 2009, Dubai’s economy has faced similar troubles seen in the Western world. This topic tracks the latest news and information on Dubai’s economy.
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Due diligence is a broad term used to describe a number of concepts involving either the investigation of a business or person, or the performance of an act with a certain standard of care. Due diligence can be a legal obligation, but is often used to describe voluntary investigations. This topic will covers due diligence in business transactions, real estate, financial services, philanthropy, and more.
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E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) is the world’s second-largest chemical company in terms of market capitalization and fourth-largest based on revenue. It operats in five business units, which produce coatings, crop protection chemicals and genetically modified seeds, electronic materials, polymers and resins, and safety and security materials. In recent years, DuPont has slimmed down its units, exiting the pharmaceutical business and spinning off its fiber operations.