Africa, The Final Business Frontier
The BBC World News, as of August 22nd, is hosting the weekly Africa Business Report. The show plans to look at the businesses and products coming out of Africa, the challenges and opportunities for companies trading there, as well as the business people themselves.
- Tessa Finlev's blog
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Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 [East Bay Express]
One evening a few months ago, I had a conversation with a local San Francisco business owner about Yelp, the online business directory that lets users write reviews—both useful and completely irrelevant—of local business. We'll call said business owner "Robert." Robert mentioned that he received a call from a Yelp sales rep who said that for a monthly fee, Robert could have control over the reviews posted to his business's profile on Yelp. Robert told the sales rep to take a hike and never call him again.
- Jess Hemerly's blog
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Don't outsource, relocate
A wrinkle in the outsourcing trend: give laid-off workers the chance to relocate to new jobs in foreign countries, at local wages. From Information Week:
The climate is warm, there's no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom. That's IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s pitch to the laid-off American workers it's offering to place in India. The catch: Wages in the country are pennies-on-the-dollar compared to U.S. salaries.
- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang's blog
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