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HP: Sinking Titanic or rising phoenix?

March 1, 2012 Marketplace

By Luke Heaney How do companies that are so crucial to their industries that they become household names, end up in balance sheet and managerial nightmares? General Motors made cars so stellar they coined the phrase “the Cadillac of (insert noun).” Kodak established “the Kodak moment.” Research In Motion all but created the smart phone [...]

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Micronotes

March 1, 2012 Marketplace

Presented by the Bentley Microfinance Group BMG Speaker Series Dr. Jane Tchaïcha, Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Bentley University, was featured in BMG Speakers Series: Microcredit Working for Women: The Case of Morocco. Dr. Tchaïcha worked with two non-governmental organizationsin Morocco: AMSSF and Ajddigue Women’s Cooperative. AMSSF is a large microlending program that has [...]

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Better Place has high hopes for greener transportation

February 23, 2012 Marketplace

By Nicholas Lee Three years ago at the 2009 TED Conference, Better Place CEO Shai Agassi asked the crowd “how would you run a whole country without oil?” He then began to outline his company’s business model, demonstrating that making the electric car a global standard is a possibility. Better Place wants to provide the [...]

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FTC investigates after Google caught tracking Apple users

February 23, 2012 Marketplace

By Jasper Huang Google has been found to be one of a couple of advertising companies that have been tracking iPhone and Apple product users through Apple’s internet browser, Safari. Although the browser prevents this type of tracking from occurring by default, Google and other companies managed to bypass this. Technical details aside, the code [...]

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Diamond Foods to restate two years of financial statements

February 16, 2012 Marketplace

By Luke Heaney Diamond Foods, the maker of such popular brands as Pop Secret Popcorn and Emerald Nuts, has announced that they have to restate two years of financial statements for misrepresenting payments made to their nut suppliers. The initial reaction to this may seem like a peanut of a headline, but how does a [...]

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U.S. economy begins its wary recovery…again

February 16, 2012 Marketplace

By Jasper Huang Though we must keep in mind that the Federal Reserve’s near-zero interest policy is still stymying consumer borrowing and spending that could accelerate the recovery of the U.S. economy, analysts are optimistic about 2012 and the recovery of our economy. Take their optimism with a grain of salt, though. Around this time [...]

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Recently extended near-zero interest rate policy harming economy

February 9, 2012 Marketplace

By Jasper Huang It has been 37 months since the Fed stepped in to oversee and manipulate the free-market system of the U.S. 37 months since the Fed’s near-zero interest rate policy has been implemented. The ultimate question now is if the policy is working, or is it doing more harm than good? The Fed [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: Soon-to-be America’s largest taxpayer

February 9, 2012 Marketplace

By Jasper Huang Facebook’s soon-to-be public status is no small news. In its IPO registration statement to the SEC, the company values itself at, a hoped for, $100 billion. However, the company’s projected value and all other standard IPO information is not all to be found within the Facebook registration statement. Within Facebook’s IPO, the [...]

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SOPA & PIPA suspended after protests show public opposition

February 2, 2012 Marketplace

By Nicholas Lee After facing an overwhelming amount of protests calling for recognition of the first amendment and privacy rights, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills were indefinitely suspended. While the U.S. government is still determined to draft legislation that will effectively stop overseas piracy, the power play against [...]

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Internship experiences: First-hand accounts from Bentley students

December 8, 2011 Marketplace

By Phillip St. Pierre It is that time of year again: Bentley students are posting up in the library, stressing out about the group presentations and final papers that professors are throwing at them. Or, if you are like me, you are probably freshening up on your procrastination tactics, choosing to go to the gym [...]

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Yield Curves: May be hard to explain, but important to understand

December 1, 2011 Marketplace

By James Pini Yield curves have been an extremely difficult economic phenomenon for economists to explain. But during 2011, there has been much talk of them and their importance for suggesting future economic conditions. The yield curve, when seen at one point in time, is a measure of interest rates on securities of different maturities. [...]

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Eurozone train wreck and Black Friday top market headlines this week

December 1, 2011 Marketplace

By Jasper Huang Welcome to the weekly market wrap for the week of November 21 through November 25, with markets being closed this Thursday in observance of Thanksgiving. Markets fell sharply amid intensifying concerns about the Eurozone, with Friday marking the seventh consecutive negative close for the S&P, which fell a cumulative 7.8 percent. Crude [...]

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