Usman Khalid
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Articles By Usman Khalid

Facebook, Inc. is on the verge of initiating the procedure of filing at Securities and Exchange Commission, US. The new stride into the corporate world is going to raise as much as $10 Billion from Initial Public Offering. This opens up new horizons for the social network to widen the span of their operations. The […]
Jan 30 2012 | Posted in
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Different minds provide different ideas and different insights to different regions of the world. The diversified work pool is a great feature of a company when it comes to invention and innovation but it has its highs and lows. With advantages come disadvantages and diversified workforce has its own challenges to cater to. There are […]
Jan 30 2012 | Posted in
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OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, based in Redwood City, California, focuses on medical breakthroughs that “target the pathways critical to cancer stem cells.” According to Paul J. Hastings, President and CEO of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, the company’s founders were native-born as well as its most important patent holder/drug discoverer (Austin Gurney). Four foreign nationals are listed on company patents. […]
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While it is often large companies cited in media accounts supporting liberalized immigration rules for highly-skilled foreign nationals, Lekacz points out that hiring the right person can be even more critical for newer companies. “When in the emerging growth phase you have to get the best person without regard to race or ethnicity,” he said. […]
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RGB Networks, started in 2003 by Canadian-born Edward Krause and American-born Peter Monta and Adam Tom, delivers high quality video service for consumers via telecom, cable and satellite companies. The company employs 175 people, led by British-born CEO Jef Graham. This is the third startup company led by Graham. The company’s vice president of marketing […]
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Chrysler Motors unleashed a new beast on the tarmac this week, the 300 SRT8. The car is a musical marriage of old thunder with the modern lightening. In the front, it has a brute living in the bonnet and the power goes to rear wheels, just like old times. The traction control gives the modern […]
Jan 30 2012 | Posted in
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The dashboard is decorated with an 8.4-inch LCD that gives more services than just audios and videos. The stereo is connected to almost every gadget and control in the car. Although the screen is touch-sensitive, it has remote controls on the steering wheel as well. The computers inside calculate everything from miles-per-gallon averages, both in-city […]
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Dan Rosensweig is open to the idea that the textbook as we know it will someday no longer exist. He just doesn’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon. “Anything is possible,” says Rosensweig, the chief executive of Chegg.com, a five-year-old company that rents textbooks to college students on 7,000 campuses. “But if you spend […]
Jan 28 2012 | Posted in
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Rather than compete head-on with its larger, more established rivals, Chegg is trying to become a site where students will buy everything they need for school and, in the process, share information that Chegg can sell to marketers. The company has made five acquisitions, companies like Cramster (for homework help) and CourseRank (for picking courses), […]
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California regulators voted to mandate major automakers substantially increase the numbers of electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell-powered models in their fleets in the coming years, eventually accounting for 15.4 percent of all vehicles sold in the state by 2025. According to Automotive News, the new standard is part of a broader package of […]

There has been a prejudice that if you want to successful you have to be outspoken, blunt and audacious. The 20th century made way for this very concept to reach the metamorphosis of a prerequisite for success. Urbanization, corporation and modern enlightenment have played their vital part in the process. However, if taken a glance […]
Jan 28 2012 | Posted in
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“A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious,” says Cain. “Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.” The terms “introvert” and “extrovert” were first made popular by psychologist Carl Jung in the 1920s and then later by the Myers-Briggs personality test, used in […]
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