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Stuck With Cloud Provider That May Not Be Your Long-term Choice?

September 2, 2015

In 2010, when Netflix was still early into its shift from DVD rentals to online movies and shows, it started using Amazon Web Services, the retailer's cloud computing division. Now that Netflix streams 100 million-plus hours of video every day, it's sticking with Amazon partly because of Amazon's scale and features, and partly because switching vendors "would be a significant multi-year effort," says Yury Izrailevsky, Netflix's vice president for cloud and platform engineering.

British Airways Bucks Industry Trend, Sees Valuable Role for 747 at Crowded Airports

September 1, 2015

Business Week

If it's the end of the line for Boeing Co.'s 747 jetliner, nobody told British Airways.

Robots as Co-workers? Not on Your Life.

August 27, 2015

Business Week

In June this year a robot crushed a man to death in a Volkswagen factory in Germany. The 22-year-old maintenance worker became trapped between a large robotic arm and a metal plate, in an area usually off-bounds to humans.

The Number of Employees, Including C-suite Execs, Working From Home Is Rising

August 20, 2015

Business Week

Diebold CEO Andy Mattes can't just stroll down the hall at his company's headquarters in Canton, Ohio, to confer with his top executives over coffee. That's because many don't work there. His chief strategist works and lives 2,100 miles away in San Jose; his chief marketing officer is in Boston.

With Sales Forecasts Not Panning Out, Many Small Manufacturing Companies Unable to Pay Bills

July 23, 2015

Business Week

Planning for a pickup in sales, some small manufacturers borrowed money from their larger counterparts to ramp up production. Now, a growing number can't pay for the investments as their forecasts aren't panning out, with energy-related companies being among the hardest hit.

Got (Too Much) Milk? U.S. Dairy Businesses Pour It Out as Glut Threatens Market

July 7, 2015

Business Week

There's so much milk flowing out of U.S. cows these days that some is ending up in dirt pits because dairies can't find buyers.

U.S. Ban on Trans Fat to Bring Big Shift in Supply to Food Industry

June 18, 2015

Business Week

Artificial trans fat will be banned from the U.S. food supply over the next three years under a ruling by regulators that the products pose health risks that contribute to heart disease, the leading killer of Americans.

Subaru Is Incredibly Successful. Would Expansion Change That?

June 11, 2015

Business Week

Since 2011, Subaru's global sales have surged 45 percent to 913,100 vehicles, a pace bested only by a few burgeoning Chinese brands and Fiat Chrysler, which has been intent on making Jeep a popular choice in Europe and Asia. In the U.S., Tesla is the only car company that has increased sales as quickly in that period. And Subaru has done all this while cranking out the best profit margin in the industry.