BGN Entrepreneur

The US coffee Company–Starbucks has launched a US offensive to protect and expand tax breaks on foreign profits, only months after its tax structure provoked a political backlash as well as public relations crisis in the UK.
According to the coffee shop chain, it was said that the company’s effective global tax rate exceeded 32%. The company just become one of a dozen large US companies to have made individual submissions to the the House ways and means committee – offering a rare and detailed glimpse into its priorities for tax policy.

Five months after the launch of 4G superfast mobile services by UK’s largest operator–EE, about 400,000 mobile customers are now using the service in the UK.
According to EE, it was announced that the initial take-up of next generation mobile services, which was broadly in line with expectations, helped underpin a rapid uptake of smartphones at the group. This will actually boost the average revenue per user in the past quarter.

Apple attempted to silence grumbling investors via promising to return an extra amount of $55bn over three years, even as the company warned of an extended gap between new product launches.
The scale of the cash return, on top of $45bn already promised over three years, is matched only by ExxonMobil in corporate America, and is designed to appease investors frustrated by the tumbling share price. Apple also posted a better than expected second-quarter results in a keenly anticipated financial report, as sales of the iPhone and iPad comfortably beat expectations, driving revenues to $43.6bn in the quarter that ended in March. However, it warned of a further slowdown before June.

If you are managing a team of people, and looks to make your work arrangement welcomed by your staff, you should make your work arrangement style have the following characteristics:
1. It is beneficial to have the work arrangement come along with clear objectives, with specific requirement on quantity, quality as well as time.
2. It is important for the staff to understand well the importance of the work in advance.
3. Detailed explanation on how you expect the staff to do the work and identification of special key points to avoid is helpful.
4. It is good to clearly list out all kinds of resource or support, including materials, instruments, labor, etc.
5. Having clear rules about rewards and punishments can help motivate the staff to better accomplish their job at lower costs.

People work for different reasons and work means different things for different people. There are different levels of working.
Basically speaking, some people work simply to survive. This is the foundation level. These people need a job to make money to support their basic living needs.
Once people find that eating and getting a place to stay is not the most pressure problem they need to face, they change to work for different reasons. Usually, at this stage, work turn out to be career, and some people work to get a sense of achievement.
Then, some people work in order to obtain mental comfort. Some ones actually manage to work as it is interesting and it makes them happy and satisfied.
Last but not least, some people work as it is already part of their own life, which could not be separated.

In a turnround program, the French retailer–Carrefour just reported the higher sales in the first quarter ever since the faster growth in Latin America helped offset “an unfavourable consumption environment” in the European zone.
According to finance director of Carrefour–Pierre-Jean Sivignon, it was announced that stood by market expectations of full-year net profits of €2.2bn in 2013, the result was “reasonable”.

Yesterday, Google just reported mixed results for the first three months of the year, beating the forecasts of analysts on profits. However, the results miss on revenues as the search engine giant still looks to stem the slip in advertising prices caused by the dramatic increase of mobile usage.
The search engine company is now counting on a new tool it released in February to help advertisers purchase ads on mobile gadget as well as desktop computers in one streamlined process.