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<title><![CDATA[Layoffs Hit BusinessWeek Following Bloomberg Sale]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:30:11 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Following its recent sale to Bloomberg, BusinessWeek reporters have probably felt like they’re living through the movie Office Space. In fact, according to The Wall Street Journal, “Over the last few weeks, Bloomberg has been asking BusinessWeek...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FTC Wants Intel to Repent, Not Pay Up]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:34:41 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, pursuing the biggest U.S. antitrust case in more than a decade, may transform the way Intel Corp. competes in the computer-chip industry. The FTC said yesterday that Intel (INTC), the world's largest...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Agile software development]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:09:54 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Agile software development refers to a group of software development methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. The term was coined in the year 2001 when the Agile Manifesto was formulated.
Agile methods generally promote a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation, a leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability, a set of engineering best practices that allow for rapid delivery of high-quality software, and a business approach that aligns development with customer needs and company goals. Conceptual foundations of this framework are found in modern approaches to operations management and analysis, such as lean manufacturing, soft systems methodology, speech act theory (network of conversations approach), and Six Sigma.]]></description>
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