We function in a human interest model not a business model, one where we have to deal with the continuum of worker-customer-homemaker.

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The word is that Tim Cook attended an "informational" meeting with Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine and "expressed interest" in his business model -- whatever that is -- and that Apple's head of Internet products, Eddy Cue, was also present.

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The team built a model relating the amount of entertainment a participant experienced with both their viewing interest and their intent to purchase a brand.

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For example if a car manufacturer spots a rise in interest in cabriolets tied to the growing adoption of Spotify, then creating a cabriolet model with superior surround sound with the lid dropped, is a potentially valuable micro-market, one among many they might encounter in a six year product life-cycle.

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With a heavily export-led development model, the feeling was that it was in China's interest to prop up the dollar system.

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