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PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:42 am    Post subject: Who's Platform Where? Reply with quote
Again culture trumps money, this time in Samsung's "garden of delights."

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"Some people come here because their manager tells them to, and when they arrive they say 'I can't work in this environment'," says Chung Sue-young, one of the "VIP" centre co-ordinators.

"The engineers immediately start tidying up and stacking all the magazines in date order, the R&D people only want to talk with Americans, and the designers just stand there and don't say anything," she says.



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Expectations of growing world independence of US slowdown again raises the question of whose platform where? And another: is this not the "best of all depressions?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-04/ubs-credit-suisse-must-boost-capital-to-meet-swiss-regulator-requirements.html

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The gap in growth rates between the developing and advanced worlds is widening, he said. Emerging economies will account for about 60 percent of global expansion this year and next, up from about 25 percent a decade ago, according to his estimates.

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