January 2012
25 posts
Consultancy Rock
thenewinquiry:
The solace of sociological distance in the music of Rush
by Rob Horning
Certain rock groups persist as their own subgenre. The venerable Canadian band Rush is one of them, maintaining a legion of loyalists willing to stick with them as they release album after blandly titled album — Power Windows, Presto, Test for Echo — that defiantly sell in the millions despite little...
Apple's Stunning Quarter →
6ixpassions: Apple now has $97.6 billion in cash. Apple could cease all business operations now, take 10,000 of its employees, pay them each $100,000 a year for doing nothing, and not run out of cash until the year 2110.
December 2011
33 posts
Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work... →
infoneer-pulse:
Volkswagen has agreed to stop its Blackberry servers sending emails to some of its employees when they are off-shift.
The carmaker confirmed it made the move earlier this year following complaints that staff’s work and home lives were becoming blurred.
The restriction covers employees in Germany working under trade union negotiated contracts.
» via BBC
