eBay stock soars 9% without PayPal after reporting stronger-than-expected Q3 | Western Digital to Buy Memory Chip Maker SanDisk for $19 Billion and more...
eBay has been making steady efforts to gain a stronger position after its separation from PayPal. Steps include selling off its enterprise unit and shutting down its on-demand delivery service and the efforts are clearly bearing fruit!
http://goo.gl/3wKOCw
Western Digital Corporation will acquire memory chip maker SanDisk Corporation for close to $19 billion in a cash-and-stock deal.
http://goo.gl/1bSgcr
Sports car maker Ferrari has made a successful debut in the NYSE in a week full of poor performance by other IPO debutantes. This successful performance despite being slightly on the higher side has raised close to $9.8 billion.for parent company, Fiat Chrysler.
http://goo.gl/OhSL1C
In addition to great design Apple is also placing clean energy alternatives at the center of its manufacturing operations. Apple claims that it is now “carbon neutral in China” and manufactures more energy than it uses. A noteworthy step that can definitely be emulated by other companies in the manufacturing sector!!!
http://goo.gl/uQeVNM
There is one group that the diversity dialogue completely ignores - older employees!
https://goo.gl/DUQnUe
The energy industry which has functioned more or less in the same way for about a hundred years now, is being turned on its head, and this could be the path to sustainable transformation in the future. Utility companies are on the right track but may have to tweak their business models many times over to survive!
http://goo.gl/nioLZ7
Google and researchers at Stanford are working together to use Google Glass to help parents of kids with autism understand their kids emotions better!
http://goo.gl/2gNpb8
IBM’s Chief Executive Virginia Rometty believes that Transformation of the company will take time as they are in it for the long haul. The company is also investing in new areas, like cognitive technology and medical diagnostics, which have tremndous potential.
http://goo.gl/8WyPh1
LinkedIn is pretty serious about gender diversity... employees goals and compensation are directly connected to diversity in gender and ethnicity! Other companies that have taken similar steps are
http://goo.gl/v6MhFy