Clod | May 31, 2011
Planning a long vacation trip in the car this summer? Great, but don’t stay at the wheel so long you get sleepy. A Stanford Medical Center authority on sleep says driving while drowsy is as dangerous as driving drunk, and maybe even more dangerous.
Clod | May 23, 2011
How i2 keeps Sun’s global supply chain in its backyard. Think of a microprocessor company and you envision a big assembly line piecing together the entrails of computer servers. Now consider Sun Microelectronics, a division of $116.5 billion Sun Microsystems. It custom-orders processors, chips, and circuit boards for Sun’s desktop, server, and storage products. Sun [...]
Clod | May 16, 2011
Europeans themselves, of course, are no experts at solving their international differences. Perhaps no two countries are more famous for their fights and skirmishes than the French and British, whose love/hate relationship spans a millennium of wars, royal romances, military alliances, and trade feuds. The squabbles and differences seem endless. To the frustration of many [...]
Clod | May 6, 2011
The complexities and nuances of assembling deals with international partners can seem daunting to even the most well-heeled businesspeople, so many U.S.-based venture capitalists are lining up foreign partners to smooth out the cross-cultural wrinkles.