Local vendors resent the colossus from Cupertino, which extracts 80% of all profits from the global (read: mostly Asian) supply chain for smartphones, reports Sanford C.

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And as often happens when I read well-written posts, it sparked a whole other chain of thinking in me.

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Tenet claims in its suit, which can be read here, that Community Health is an unfit acquirer because the chain has been systematically defrauding Medicare.

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While Japan suffered the direct impact of a massive tsunami, which also caused a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.S. saw production hit by supply chain disruptions, as Japan provides many of the intermediate goods needed to build cars. (Read Bernanke Fed Blames Commodities And Japan For Soft Patch).

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