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In some American cities, peer-to-peer taxi services have been banned after lobbying by traditional taxi firms.

The value of listed shares in American firms collapsed by 57% from its peak in October 2007 to a low in March this year, though it has since bounced back somewhat.

But there was some pain for everyone: median pay for chief executives of non-financial firms in the S&P 500 fell by

Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.

Large numbers of builders, property firms and retailers have gone bankrupt

Many firms will die, but the survivors will emerge leaner and stronger than before.

The importance of non-financial firms will accordingly rise, along with their ability to attract the best talent

At the worst time, the total value of listed shares in American firms shrank by 57%.

Rival firms competed with each other to follow where he led.

In the process he brought about great changes in computing, music, telecoms and the news business that were painful for existing firms but welcomed by millions of consumers

His insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deep-rooted in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too.

The gap between Apple and other tech firms is now likely to narrow

With Mr Jobs gone, Apple is just one of many technology firms trying to arouse his uncontrollable spirit in new products.

At times, these breaks and transitions will be self-determined, at others they will be forced as existing roles, firms, or industries cease to exist.

This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly-paid human lawyers.

No, I think they are just asking all the firms in tongue for as much money as they think they'll give.

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized so

Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble.

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1, i.e., an upper-second class degree, from an elite university.

As executives with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now well on their way to impressive careers.

Breaking up firms like Google into five small ones would not stop remaking themselves: in time, one of them would become great again.

By paying attention to firms' data assets, antitrust regulators could avoid the size trap.

Google's idea is popular among data firms.

Instead, he says, firms should provide a plain-English version of their terms.

She said social media firms were exposing children to major emotional risks, with some youngsters starting secondary school ill-equipped to cope with the tremendous pressure they faced online.

Social media firms would conduct a survey on the kitemark scheme.

That's the message from a group of members of the UK government who have been examining how social media firms like Linkedin gather and use social media data.

The most valuable firms are Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft.

They now need to take into account the extent of firms' data assets when assessing the impact of deals.

Under such circumstances, smart firms need to find ways to let their employees have enough flexibility to manage their time efficiently.

And new research suggests that happiness might influence how firms work, too.

But it is really happiness that's linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities explain why firms there spend more on R and D?

Especially, firms in happy places spend more on R and D .

firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug's efficacy.

firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.

firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

In some ways the scientific publishing model resembles the economy of the social internet: labour is provided free in exchange for the hope of status, while huge profits are made by a few big firms who run the market places.

Often they "trade up", leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.

similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

So they compared U.S. cities' average happiness measured by Gallup Polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.

Such a move could affect firms such as McDonald's, which sponsors the youth coaching scheme run by the Football Association.

The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly.

The chief executive of Myriad, a company in Utah, said the ruling was a blessing to firms and patients alike.

The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors attribute to "less codified decision making process" and the possible presence of "younger and less experienced managers who are more likely to b

The effect tended to be larger for larger firms.

The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10, 000 firms and more than 64, 000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.

The study found that, among prosecuted firms, those with the most comprehensive CSR programmes tended to get more lenient penalties.

To find out, the researches controlled for various factors that might make firms more likely to invest like size, industry, and sales -- and for indicators that a place was desirable to live in, like growth in wages or population.

Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to "run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and Maybe even how the company should trade in them.