NineSights gives him the opportunity to tap into global inventor networks, again helping to accelerate product development.
Blumenthal thought she wanted to go into global advertising and found a job at an agency after college.
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Nonetheless, the evidence suggests that many western companies are wasting money in their lemming-like rush into global electricity.
Both men started companies for themselves in 2004 and continue to lead them as they've grown into global players.
In January Citigroup announced it was beefing up its strategic advisory group to support its expansion plans into global banking.
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But increasingly, companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google are being drawn into global debates regarding access to inflammatory material.
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Udemy, StartApp, Kaltura and Kaggle were all founded as small startups and in several short years grew into global technology leaders.
The editor of the survey, Phil Baty, said uncertainty in education in England could see world-class universities collapse into global mediocrity.
We need to launch manufacturing hubs across the country that will transform hard-hit regions into global centers of high-tech jobs and manufacturing.
They begin new bull markets together, experience occasional market corrections simultaneously, and sink into global bear markets at approximately the same time.
Such scenes are the front lines of U.S.-based web consulting companies, thrust into global expansion by design--or by circumstances they couldn't control.
One of their most valuable tools was a process called "geocoding, " the conversion of street addresses into global positioning system (GPS) coordinates.
In 2010, Sony launched a network platform called "Qriocity" which connects many of Sony's network-enabled devices, and has been expanding its services into global markets.
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It has also transformed the show's close-knit cast of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer into global celebrities.
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He may also venture into global stocks, now costly to buy and sell unless they trade on the New York Stock Exchange or as American Depositary Receipts.
Fellow billionaires saw the potential of owning a soccer team as a valuable asset, and started snatching up clubs with the goal of turning them into global cash-cows.
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Toosbuy turned that simple idea into global shoe brand Ecco.
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"It is a must that we create a presence in New York in order to step into global market, " said Sang-Pyo Hong, chief director at Korea Creative Content Agency.
The second was that the collapsed currencies provided a very competitive new base for export-led growth even at a time when China was making ever bigger inroads into global markets.
In this it was even ahead of Boeing and Airbus, both now scrambling to transform themselves from rich-world exporters into global producers, with long, difficult-to-manage supply chains spanning the world.
Telecoms incumbents, keen to grab a slice of the action, tried to turn themselves into global operators through the expansion of their existing networks and the acquisition of foreign firms.
Pinera attributes Chile's integration into global markets to free-trade agreements with China, the U.S. and Europe and the government's mission to transform the country into a developed nation before 2020.
Over the past several years, the big sports leagues have made great strides toward turning themselves essentially into global lifestyle brands, moving well beyond an appeal only to their most rabid fans.
So tonight, I'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Department of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalisation into global centers of high-tech jobs.
The ones that have done best are those that have plugged into global industries and been able to capture the headquarters or lesser corporate centres of globalised companies, especially banks and other financial firms, argues Saskia Sassen, of the University of Chicago.
Just as Mars -- a desert planet -- gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
Now, with "Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, " Mr. Platt presents the first book-length foray in this direction, providing a compelling alternative account of much-studied events that feels both a bit old-fashioned (in its panoramic view of battles and leaders) yet also very much in step with recent scholarship, placing national stories into global frameworks.
He expects stocks to extend their recent gains in the next few months, because he believes central banks will continue to pump money into the global financial system and much of that will find its way into stocks.
Together we can change the global profile of each of these countries and move away from aid and into a global conversation about opportunity.
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