Case of the unfriendly Fox

A case filed in the federal district court of New York during November 2005, has forced the Fox News Channel to pay a sum of $225,000 as settlements. The case was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of four women employed with the network. They charged the network of supporting a sexually unfriendly work place where indecent language was used by the advertising and marketing VPs in the New York office. The case also calls for the news group to modify its anti-discrimination policy and train its managerial cadre to emulate the same.

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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri

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SEC should clear its own fault lines before blaming rating agencies

It seems as if the bosses at US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have never heard the famous comment from British writer Douglas Noël Adams (of ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ fame), which goes like this, “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problem just with potatoes.” SEC is all set to bring in the ‘Credit Rating Agency Duopoly Relief Act’ (this was cleared by the US House of Representatives on July 12, 2006), to enhance credit rating quality by allowing competition and by curtailing the duopoly of Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s (S&P).

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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri

So would these belated “free” strategy work?

So would these belated “free” strategy work? Telecom analyst Safa Rashtchy, US Bancorp, shoots, “In most of the services like search and online shopping... brand loyalties have already been established. I doubt that AOL will be able to entice the customers towards its free services.” But the only two areas that AOL has a considerable command, are the same two areas that it currently ignores. In music downloads, though Yahoo has 23.2 million users, AOL, with a very close 22.2 million users, even leads Apple iTunes (which has 21.8 million users). But more critically, AOL’s map services are subscribed to by a gargantuan figure of 45 million users, which is an unbelievable 20 million users more than the second in line, Google.

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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri

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