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...At the extreme, platforms’ control over the means of distribution can lead to companies being expelled or unable to continue doing business through that route....
...“If a painting is doing ‘well’ in the market, it’s a sign that those colours will end up being popular,” says artist Cassi Namoda, who formerly worked in fashion — for a time as a colour forecaster....
...Yet many economists stress the need for deep reforms to help tackle the notorious custo Brasil — the cost of doing business in Brazil — which holds back manufacturers....
...We still don’t know how rigorous the implementation of these rules will be but they will nonetheless be an additional burden to doing business....
...Now, it seems to be business as usual, something investors are pricing into share valuations, as information technology has grown to represent one-quarter of the value of the S&P 500....
...It is right to experiment fast, as many governments are doing, and figure out the best ways to integrate app data with human tracing and tracking systems....
...access to medical records held by Ascension, the country’s second-largest healthcare system, as they built new products....
...David Owen, MD and chief European economist at Jefferies: No....
...This points to a particular problem for Google as it tries to build a cloud computing business....
...Toby Cosgrove, former chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic medical centre, as an adviser to Google Cloud’s healthcare business....
...You are not “the product” but rather the abandoned carcass. The “product” derives from the surplus data ripped from your life....
...In debates about health reform, the industry has struggled for years to be seen as a solution to, rather than source of, rising health costs and the relationship with health systems has typically been adversarial...
...Instead of barraging the meditator with advertisements, both apps are embracing a new, yet oddly traditional, business model of charging for their product....
...So we have over 1,000 folks right now that have purchased our product, 1,000 people in our first year business that have bought in and understood and like us I think is a huge deal....
...Lately, though, the choice of products has improved dramatically, as drinks companies recognise there’s money to be made from moderation. Take beer....
...Mr Gomez says Pimco spends “an extraordinary amount of time” assessing China, visiting every month to assess its health....
...However, we do know that some patients have a preference for branded medications. ” While generic drugs contain the same active ingredient as branded products, they are not carbon copies....
...He realised that he had to refocus his company around its core product — the terminal — and, as part of that, needed to rethink the news division....
...Some doctors say abuse-deterrent opioids run the risk of making the problem worse, arguing that they send a “business as usual” message to the medical establishment....
...a hostile place to do business....
...His record of doing such mega deals is questionable, as the $15.6bn takeover of US biotechnology company Medimmune in 2007 has failed to produce many new drugs and is considered a flop....
...Finally, boards should consider IT risk management as a value contributor, not just a cost of doing business....
...“Punishment is so minor it can be treated as a business cost, and clearly hasn’t been enough in the past to generate a sense of fear,” said Mr Smith A report on the Olympus scandal published last week by...
...Moving from, according to the World Bank in their index of ease of doing business, moving from somewhere around 67 or 68 to 11th in 2010. AA: What is your concern about doing business here?...
...TB Well, no, I was there while it was blowing up and we were doing other business....
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