At some multinational companies, new ideas on how to use social media in recruiting processes are coming from their Chinese units.

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Secondly, the foreign-owned companies were simply also better at coming up with new stuff on their own, in comparison to their domestic counterparts.

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Ahead of CES, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) hand-picked Immerz as one of only eleven i-stage finalists in an annual competition that awards companies developing the most innovative new consumer technology products coming to market.

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Is the effort to treat experiments in genetics just like clinical trials hurting our ability to use the new technology coming from companies like Illumina, Life Technologies, and Complete Genomics?

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In order to lure new workers and retain the old, some companies give employees sizable bonuses just for coming back to work, while others offer cash for every new employee they bring along with them.

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Experts in the pharmaceutical industry are hopeful that this sustained bolus of new medicines is evidence that drug companies are coming out of a severe innovation drought over the last decade that saw the number of new medicines fall to little more than half its current level.

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