Turner Broadcasting has announced plans to cut 1,500 positions both nationally and internationally, representing about 10 percent of the media organization’s current workforce. The restructuring has affected a variety of […]
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Coca-Cola CEO Among Execs Urging Investment Treaty With China
Coca-Cola Co. CEO Muhtar Kent, a former president of the U.S.-China Business Council, is among a group of 51 CEOs from top American corporations who are urging President Barack Obama […]
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Export Stories: Atlanta Firms Get Creative to Crack New Markets
Note: This is a summary of an event releasing Global Atlanta’s Export Stories 2014 special report. Download the PDF here. When Atlanta-based consultancy Newfields was pulled by oil giant Shell into Brazil’s vast market for environmental […]
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Atlanta Among Five Airports Chosen for Enhanced Ebola Screening
This weekend the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to step up Ebola screening for passengers entering the U.S. from West Africa at five airports including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Selected […]
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Nonprofit Brings Haiti Sewing Stories Back Home
The leaders of Ties That Matter, a non-profit that helps Haitian women grow their incomes by creating fashionable and decorative products from recycled neckties, are using their experiences in the poverty-stricken country to […]
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Investor Visas for Israelis Around the Corner
A new visa category allowing Israeli business owners and investors to work and live in the U.S. has grown closer to becoming reality thanks to recent moves by both governments. […]
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Wetlands: Coca-Cola Helps China Tackle Water Pollution
Business is booming for Xiong Qiaorong’s family guesthouse. Nestled under a canopy of trees beside a flowing stream, it’s one of many places where Chinese urbanites can come to shake off the hustle […]
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Overcoming the Israeli-American Culture Gap
Reading the headlines and the staunch proclamations of loyalty between the U.S. and Israel on the defense front, it’s easy to assume that business deals between the two countries happen […]
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Swedish, U.S. Startups Win $100,000 at Ocean Exchange
The Ocean Exchange sustainability conference in Savannah has selected firms U.S. and Sweden as winners of $100,000 toward scaling up their innovations in the fields of desalination and renewable energy. […]
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Ocean Exchange Draws Global Innovators on Sustainability
As director of Georgia’s Center of Innovation for Energy, Costas Simoglou goes to a lot of conferences, but there’s something different about the annual Ocean Exchange in Savannah. In addition to an interactive format that encourages […]