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The arrival of e-mail in the mid 1990s was heralded as a new era of office communication, with promises efficiency and speed.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/20/globaloffice.emailstrom/index.html
Many in business still believe that if you want to make it to the top, an MBA is just the ticket -- a jumpstart to a rich and rewarding career.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/28/globaloffice.mintzberg/index.html
A judge has delayed testimony by the government's star witness in the trial of homemaking maven Martha Stewart, putting the trial on hold amid a dispute over a key document in the case.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/29/martha.trial/index.html
Managing our e-mails is one of the most important skills in the office these days. By following a few tips the relationship with our inbox might just get better.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/20/globaloffice.email.tips/index.html
It takes a lot to gamble a world-renowned sports-car tradition and an exclusive brand name on a bulky off-roader.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/16/globaloffice.porsche/index.html
Boeing Co. says it delivered 281 jets in 2003, marking the first year in its history that European rival Airbus delivered more planes to the world's airlines.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/06/airbus.boeing.reut/index.html
Passengers across Italy have faced considerable disruption due to an eight-hour strike by workers at Italian carrier Alitalia.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/19/alitalia/index.html
Tokyo stocks opened narrowly mixed Friday, as investors waited on key quarterly earnings reports from blue chips such as Honda Motor and a stronger yen continued to dampen the market mood.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/29/asiamarket.open.reut/index.html
Asian stocks have closed broadly lower Wednesday after Wall Street eased and the dollar hit fresh three-year lows against the yen.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/28/asiastocks.wedclose/index.html
Asian markets closed mixed Wednesday, with good gains in Japan after two days of decline offset by falls in South Korea and Australia.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/08/asiastocks.thursmclose/index.html
Japanese stocks dipped at the open on Wednesday, with a fall on Wall Street and continued worries about a stronger yen dampening the market mood.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/13/asia.markets.reut/index.html
Asian stocks fell on Thursday and U.S. technology shares were expected to follow after downbeat sales forecasts from Intel Corp and other major tech firms offset healthy earnings reports.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/15/asia.stocks.close.reut/index.html
Asian stocks are lower at midday Thursday after Wall Street tumbled on the Fed's decision to leave interest rates on hold.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/28/asiastocks.thursopen/index.html
Asian markets are higher at midday Wednesday, with good gains in Japan after two days of decline. Technology stocks are leading the way.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/07/asiastocks.thursmid/index.html
Asia's surging stocks took a breather on Monday as investors feared a new SARS outbreak in China and after Wall Street stumbled on data that showed few jobs in the emerging U.S. recovery.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/12/asia.markets.close/index.html
Markets in Asia have begun the new year firmly in the black, with Taiwan posting the best gains Friday.
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Markets in Asia are beginning the new year in the black, with Taiwan posting the best gains at midday Friday.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/01/asianstocks.fridayearly/index.html
Most Asian markets shrugged off Wall Street weakness Wednesday as they looked forward to a rebound on the Nasdaq, with Tokyo reversing early losses after brokerages upgraded technology companies.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/14/asia.markets.close.reut/index.html
A technology-led jump in Asian stocks was curbed on Tuesday by fears of a renewed SARS outbreak.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/06/asia.stocks.close.reut/index.html
Asian stocks finished on a conservative note after a week dominated by concerns over the weakening dollar and its impact on the region's key exporters.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/30/asiamarket.friclose/index.html
Asian stocks are powering ahead at midday Friday as investors draw inspiration from another tech rally on Wall Street.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/08/asiastocks.fridayearly.reut/index.html
Asian shares rebounded on Friday, driven by gains in chip-related issues as solid earnings and upbeat forecasts from IBM and Juniper Networks bolstered prospects for U.S. technology stocks.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/15/asia.stocks.reut/index.html
Business conditions in Australia are their best for almost a decade, according to a major bank survey released Tuesday that also lauds the global economic picture.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/26/aust.nabsurvey/index.html
Australia has been further rewarded for its participation in the Iraq campaign with potentially $800 million in contracts being promised to resource services specialist, The Worley Group.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/asia/01/18/Worley.iraq/index.html
The Bank of England is being taken to court in a dispute over the 1991 collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/13/uk.bcci/index.html
Japanese shares fell on Monday after banking shares were hit by a weekend report that Japan's financial watchdog would investigate loan records at a unit of the nation's fourth-biggest banking group, UFJ Holdings.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/25/asiamarket.midday.reut/index.html
State-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has agreed to lead a joint takeover of LG Card Co Ltd under a revised $4.2 billion rescue plan for South Korea's biggest credit card company, main creditor Woori Bank says.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/02/korea.lgcard.reut/index.html
The umbrella body of the $1.2 trillion a day foreign exchange market has urged banks to tighten internal controls to prevent currency fraud and malpractice.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/27/forex.scams.reut/index.html
The troubled newspaper tycoon Conrad Black has agreed to sell his controlling stake in the Toronto-based Hollinger empire to billionaire British twins the Barclay brothers.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/19/black.hollinger/index.html
National Australia Bank Ltd says it has found gaps in its internal procedures that had allowed currency options traders to breach trading limits and lose at least A$185 million ($145 million).
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/23/nab.probe/index.html
Bank of America said on Tuesday that an account apparently containing $7.7 billion of Parmalat funds never existed.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/20/parmalat.fund.reut/index.html
The Bank of England failed to regulate the collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International properly, a lawyer for BCCI's liquidators said Tuesday in opening arguments in a $1.8 billion lawsuit.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/13/boe.bcci.ap/index.html
British Airways Plc, Europe's biggest airline, said on Wednesday it planned to cut £300 million ($550 million) from staff costs over the next two years to secure its future and become a profitable carrier.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/28/british.airways.reut/index.html
Australia and the United States have extended negotiations on a free trade deal over the weekend with the two sides struggling to reach agreement on a range of issues -- particularly agriculture.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/asia/01/31/trade.australia.usa.reut/index.html
Japanese consumer electronics maker Canon is sharply higher Tuesday after confirming it will spend about $5.7 billion on investment in Japan over the next three years.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/26/japan.canon/index.html
The Japanese and Australian markets opened cautiously Thursday, deciding which direction to take in the wake of a welter of international company results posted on Wall Street.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/22/asiamarket.open.reut/index.html
Tokyo stocks are lower at midday Friday as investors decide that strong quarterly earnings by blue chips like NEC Corp are already reflected in share prices and opt to take profits.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/29/asiamarket.midday.reut/index.html
China expects its economy to maintain the fast growth momentum during the first quarter of 2004, a state official said on Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/19/china.quarterly.trade.reut/index.html
TCL Corp, China's second-biggest TV and cellphone maker, will launch an initial public offering this week to raise 2.5 billion yuan ($302 million) to expand its core business, the company says.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/04/china.tcl/index.html
China's crude oil imports, fueled by a booming economy, rose nearly 80 percent year on year to 9.3 million tonnes in December.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/18/China.oil.reut/index.html
China has slapped tariffs of up to 55 percent on cold-rolled steel imports from Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Taiwan because they have hurt domestic producers.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/14/china.steel.reut/index.html
China has announced a $45 billion plan to turn two major state-owned banks into free-standing corporations -- a step meant to create profitable competitors as Beijing prepares to open its financial markets to foreign rivals.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/05/china.banks.ap/index.html
South Korea's industrial output rose a better-than-expected 2.7 percent in December from a month earlier as strong exports of chips and autos offset frail local consumption and investments, new government data shows.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/29/korea.output.reut/index.html
Citibank and HSBC have become the first overseas banks to win approval to issue credit cards in China, according to state media.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/01/china.banks.reut/index.html
Markets across Asia closed lower Thursday, embracing the negative sentiment of the past two days on Wall Street and concern about the continuing weakness of the dollar against their currencies.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/29/asiastocks.thursclose/index.html
For every motivational platitude that creates a bad attitude and every corporate catch phrase that instills employee rage, there may be a new customer for a company called Despair.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/17/offbeat.life.despair.reut/index.html
Germany's most powerful banker went on trial Wednesday on charges that he improperly approved large executive payments during a high-stakes takeover deal.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/21/germany.merger.ap/index.html
The European Central Bank defied German-led calls for interest rate cuts Thursday, saying growing global demand would partly compensate for any damage the strong euro will have on euro zone exports.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/08/ecb.unch.reut/index.html
Japan Air System, a unit of Japan Airlines System Corp, has cancelled 120 domestic flights after finding cracks in engines made by New Zealand company, Pratt & Whitney.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/19/airline.cracks.reut/index.html
Foreign shareholders of Enron Corp's stalled $2.9 billion Indian power project say they are offering to sell their 85 percent stake for $380 million.
http://cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/01/19/enron.india.reut/index.html
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Wikipedia-Article "Business"
Business refers to at least three closely related commercial topics. The first is a commercial, professional or industrial organization or enterprise, generally referred to as "a business." The second is commercial, professional, and industrial activity generally, as in "business continues to evolve as markets change." Finally, business can be used to refer to a particular area of economic activity, such as the "record business" or the "computer business" (see Industry). This article is concerned primarily with the first definition of individual businesses, but also contains links to general business and management topics, in the sense of the second definition.
Individual businesses are established in order to perform economic activities. With some exceptions (such as cooperatives, non-profit organizations and generally, institutions of government), businesses exist to produce profit. In other words, the owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for expending time, effort and capital.
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Types of Businesses
There are many types of businesses, and, as a result, businesses can be classified in many ways. One of the most common focuses on the primary profit-generating activities of a business, for example:
- Manufacturers produce products, from raw materials or component parts, which they then sell at a profit. Companies that make physical goods, such as cars or pipes, are considered manufacturers.
- Service businesses offer intangible goods or services and typically generate a profit by charging for labor or other services provided to other businesses or consumers. Organizations ranging from house painters to consulting firms to restaurants are types of service businesses.
- Retailers and Distributors act as middle-men in getting goods produced by manufacturers to the intended consumer, generating a profit as a result of providing sales or distribution services. Most consumer-oriented stores and catalogue companies are distributors or retailers.
- Agriculture and mining businesses are concerned with the production of raw material, such as plants or minerals.
- Financial businesses include banks and other companies that generate profit through investment and management of capital.
- Information businesses generate profits primarily from the resale of intellectual property and include movie studios, publishers and packaged software companies.
- Utilities produce public services, such as heat, electricity, or sewage treatment, and are usually government chartered.
- Real estate businesses generate profit from the selling, renting, and development of properties, homes, and buildings.
- Transportation businesses deliver goods and individuals from location to location, generating a profit on the transportation costs.
There are many other divisions and subdivisions of businesses. The authoritative list of business types for North America (although it is widely used around the world) is generally considered to be the NAICS, or North American Industry Classification System. The equivalent European Union list is the NACE.
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Business departments
Within businesses one can often find similar departments, named (and not limited to):
- Administration
- Finance & controlling
- Human ressources
- Management
- Marketing & sales
- Production/service
- Purchasing
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Business and Government
Most legal jurisdictions specify the forms that a business can take, and a body of commercial law has developed for each type. Some common types include partnerships, corporations (also called limited liability companies), and sole proprietorships.
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Business and Management
The study of the efficient and effective operation of a business is called management. The main branches of management are financial management, marketing management, human resource management, strategic management, production management, service management, information technology management, and business intelligence.
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See also
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This encyclopedia includes over 1600 business and economics articles, so not all appear listed here. This lists some of the main branches of business. For more specific topics, look at the various sublists.
- Accounting
- Advertising
- Banking
- Barter
- Big business
- Business broker
- Business ethics
- Business intelligence
- Business schools
- Capitalism
- Commerce
- Commercial law
- Companies
- Competition
- Consumer electronics
- Economics
- Electronic commerce
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Government ownership
- Human Resources
- Industry
- Intellectual property
- International trade
- Insurance
- Investment
- List of America's Richest Men
- List of billionaires
- List of business theorists
- List of corporate leaders
- List of commercial pairs
- List of popular business books
- List of human resource management topics
- Management
- Management information systems
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Mass media
- Organizational studies
- Process management
- Project management
- Real Estate
- Small business
- Strategic management
- Tax
- Theory of constraints
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