A conglomerate is a business entity which is made up of at least two corporations. One defining characteristic of a conglomerate is that the corporations involved in it deal with businesses that are of totally different natures from each other; that is, the corporations are in industries that have...
Apple who has revolutionized the cell phone industry and the music industry with the introduction of popular products such as the iPhone, and the iPod is set to release an Apple Tablet PC. The new device will similarly change the mobile computing industry as well as the ebook industry. Apple is...
Nine years ago the RIAA won a groundbreaking suit against Napster.com in what would become the beginning of a nearly decade-long flood of litigation. The incident seemed to be a tipping point for the Entertainment Industry, as both the RIAA and MPAA up until then had enjoyed little success in...
Careers within the health care industry are expected to expand into a record number of job opportunities. Health care careers dominate eight of the top ten highest paying occupations and offer a variety of employment possibilities with ample salaries. During May 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...
The time has come (the Walrus said) to stop being pacified by safe, soft-pedaled words like ‘recession,’ ‘slump’ or ‘dip in the market.‘ Let’s face the facts, folks: Times are hard; money’s tight. The price of everything from gas to grapes skyrockets,...
The sex slave industry thrives in Odessa, Ukraine. Thousands of tourists brought by ship into the port of the Black Sea harbor carry tourists in and transport hundreds, if not thousands, of women from deprived economic and emotional states to Turkey, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates as...
An underwriter is an individual or an entity that takes on a financial risk for another person or entity. The term underwriter is used in the financial sector, in a wide variety of businesses. Perhaps the industry that is most often associated with underwriting and underwriters is the insurance...
Greenway University, the first and only state approved medical marijuana education center, is opening a "pot" campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded by Gus Escamilla, the campus will "[provide] education while helping grow in a new American industry" per the industrious CEO. Greenway University...
General Motors Company's plan to sell the Hummer line of sport utility vehicles to a Chinese manufacturer fell through this week. GM is now scrambling to secure other offers. China's Sichuan Tengzholg Heavy Industrial Machinery offered the $150 million dollar bid that GM accepted for the Hummer...
