We tend to think of corporations as monolithic, singular entities. But they’re not. They’re just companies, normal companies run by normal people—people that really,really loved downloading stuff from MegaUpload while on the clock. Continue reading
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Kodak files for Chapter 11 Protection
As film giant Kodak files for bankruptcy protection, everyone from photographers to economists is looking back at the company that was, for so long, synonymous with American photography. Continue reading
An ocean of cancellations
Millions of baht lost as floods hit Thailand’s entertainment industry Continue reading
Firms Draw Scrutiny Over Thai Flood’s Impact
Workers at Japanese tech firm Nidec Corp.’s plant have a novel remedy for the flooding crisis that has shut thousands of factories here: They’re piling up boxes of delicate motors for hard-disk drives on narrow wooden boats and ferrying them across a flooded plain to a truck waiting to take them to Bangkok. Continue reading