Wednesday, October 10, 2012

How Important Is It? Dominos Sells Pizza Bit by Bit

 Try selling 17 million Pizza's without the internet. 

Listen to chief information officer Kevin Vasconi tell Paul Taylor how Domino’s Pizza copes on 'Super Bowl Tuesday' in his IT 'war room.' Taylor is the Financial Times' IT editor.
 
Vasconi explains how his company is 'data-driven' as it pushes into online ordering and global point-of-sales. 

This five minute, twenty six second video was posted on September, 17 2012 

Sir Paul Smith During the London Fashion Week


British designer Sir Paul Smith is one of London Fashion Week’s biggest names. 
 
At this year’s show, the fashion designer speaks to the FT’s deputy fashion editor Carola Long about the new collection, a mixed picture around the world and why it is the right time to move back into China.  
 
This three minute, fifty seven second video was posted on September, 16 2012  

Sunday, October 07, 2012

When the Markets Are Down, Go Up

High-end fashion: From the Valentino show at Paris fashion week in a five minute, eleven second video , Vanessa Friedman, FT's fashion editor interviews Stefano Sassi, Valentino's chief executive.  He spoke to about how Qataris's recent has affected the business and why he's keeping the focus upmarket.   

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Swiss Central Bank Is Running the Printing Presses & Having Some Very Peculiar Effects On Eurozone Bond Markets

Switzerland's effort to stop its currency strengthening has led its central bank to buy eurozone bonds equivalent to half the total deficit in the region's "safer" countries. James Mackintosh, the FT's investment editor, reported on September 25 2012 that central banks are driving bond yields. http://video.ft.com/v/1860718215001/Alpine-imbalances (4m 33sec)

Toward a World Yuan?

September 24 2012 The FT reports "As China continues to internationalize its currency, a small but growing number of multinationals are now using renminbi in cross-border trade." Denise Law of FT China Confidential reports: http://video.ft.com/v/1857627598001/Trading-in-RMB-grows (4m 13sec)

Thursday, September 13, 2012

did Doubke-Entry Accounting create the Abstraction that ids Capitalism

A Foundation of Capitalism http://www.economist.com/multimedia?bclid=1213687645001&bctid=1836310697001 Jane Gleeson-White wrote a new book on double-entry accounting. In this interview with the Economist she tells about how double-entry accounting originated in the Italian Renaissance, helped father Capitalism, and was the fruit of the synergies of the scientific and cultural developments of the time.

IMF Chief: World Economy in a 'Dangerous' Phase

WSJ Global Economics Editor David Wessel dissects the sentiment of the world's central bankers following last week's economic meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Their feelings are not optimistic. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

U.K. Advertises for New Bank of England Governor

For the first time, the U.K. Treasury is placing an ad to find a new governor for the Bank of England. As bank expands its role, the job could prove hard to fill. Dow Jone's Paul Hannon reports on the hunt for a super human.

Glencore Raises Offer for Xstrata

(9/10/2012) Geoffrey Rogow and Dana Cimilluca discuss Glencore's last-ditch effort to save its merger with Xstrata, and Steven Russolillo looks at the markets' reaction to the August unemployment figures.