The Industry Handbook on Investopedia.com
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The Industry Handbook produced by Investopedia[1] and put forth by Forbes Magazine[2] offers a general background on things[3] potential investors in the following industries should look for:
Airline Industry
Oil Services Industry
Precious Metal
Automobiles
Retailing Industry
Banking Industry
Biotechnology
Semiconductor Industry
Insurance Industry
Telecommunications Industry
Utilties Industry
Internet Industry
Source: Investopedia, The Industry Handbook, URL: http://www.investopedia.com/…
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Industry Profiles on globalEDGE™
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Industry Profiles at globalEDGE™-Werbsite are available for:
Aerospace and Defense
Agriculture
Apparel and Textiles
Business Services
Chemicals
Construction
Consumer Products
Energy
Financial Services
Food and Beverage
Healthcare
Hospitality and Travel
Industrial Manufacturing
Media and Communications
Mining/Minerals/Metals
Pharmaceuticals
Public Services
Retail
Technology
Transport Manufacturing
The industry profiles include introductions, background information, links to global resources, upcoming events, headlines and in depth analysis, risk descriptions and assessments, trade statistics, corporations and memos.
Please read also the following articles:
International Business [...]
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Mass Transit Magazine
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Mass Transit Magazine is a comprehensive resource on the mass transit industry. It offers daily news, industry updates, a blog, announcements, event listings, video network, webinars, whitepapers, opiniones, job listings, and a buyer’s guide. Additionally, the site offers an eNewsletter and industry briefs through a free subscription.
Mass Transit’s editor, Fred Jandt, speaks weekly on [...]
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The Business Strategy Game® – Competing in a Global Marketplace
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The Business Strategy Game® is an online exercise where class members are divided into teams and assigned the task of running an athletic footwear company in head-to-head competition against companies managed by other class members. Company operations parallel those of actual athletic footwear companies. Just as in the real-world, companies compete in a global market [...]
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www.elearning-reviews.org
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The vision of elearning-reviews.org[1] is to provide those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications.
Their most important goal is to provide a well-balanced selection of seminal publications as well as interesting up-to-date publications from the various disciplinary perspectives. Therefore, they continually survey new publications from a broad spectrum of [...]
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Country Profiles - German Federal Statistical Office
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The Federal Statistical Office regularly publishes country profiles (7 pages as PDF-files) for the G-20 advanced industrial and emerging countries based on official international statistics. They give an overview of the main statistical indicators including economy and finance, demography, social conditions and the environment.
The latest editions are those of the Republic of Korea 2009 (South [...]
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List of the top 100 European Patent Applicants in 2007
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The 100 most active applicants filed almost one third of all patent applications out of the 141,000 applications received by the EPO (European Patent Office) in 2007. The top 500 applicants accounted for half of the applications filed, and the 10 most active companies accounted for 11% of the total.
Rank
Company
Count
1
PHILIPS
3,222
2
SAMSUNG
2,478
3
SIEMENS
1,850
4
BASF
1,474
5
MATSUSHITA
1,395
6
ROBERT BOSCH
1,166
7
LG
1,080
8
SONY
929
9
NOKIA
873
10
FUJITSU
819
Source: http://www.epo.org/about-us/…
Other [...]
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Second China - Immersive cultural exposure prior to in-country travel
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The Second China Project of the University of Florida allows training cultural awareness through an integrated 2D/3D online environment.
The 2D traditional website is used to provide cultural information. The learning modules comprise: China Facts, Business, Government, Politics, Military, Language, Society, Travel Information and Awareness. Just to give an example the Business Module includes 21 topics, [...]
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