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Viper Might Be Luxury Chrysler Can Do Without

Automaker needs to raise $1B, and hot rod looks odd model out

BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Aug 28, 08 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite a $1.1 billion operating profit in the first half of the year, Chrysler is hemorrhaging money. In a bid to raise another billion, the company is looking to sell off its iconic Dodge Viper line, BusinessWeek reports. The Viper has sold a mere 594 cars since January, and has become a specialty product removed from the rest of Chrysler's line, experts say. More »

More about:  auto industry • Chrysler • auto sales • Dodge • sports cars • BusinessWeek

 Yoga Turning 
 B-Schoolers 
 on Their Heads 

Capitalists latch on to search for inner peace

BusinessWeek BusinessWeek Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT student said. More »

More about:  business • Harvard • MIT • stress • University of Chicago • capitalism • Northwestern University • business school • yoga • BusinessWeek

Audience Disses Zuckerberg SXSWi Interview

Reporter draws heckles, as CEO talks about changing world

CNET CNET Mar 10, 08 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook is changing the world. At least, that was a dominant theme during Mark Zuckerberg’s Sunday keynote at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, during which interviewer Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek drew heckles from an increasingly impatient audience. Zuckerberg talked about Colombian activists and Lebanese youth using Facebook to organize and broaden their minds. More »

More about:  Facebook • social networking • Colombia • Lebanon • Mark Zuckerberg • BusinessWeek

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