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This topic is designed to track news and discussions about public policy for broadband in the U. S. U.S. broadband policy will include news and analysis about the competitiveness of U. S. in broadband, as well as efforts by the Obama Administration and others to improve the availability and affordability of speedy Internet service.
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U.S. Auto Sales are in a state of peril. Change, one way or another, is inevitable for America's automobile industry. As a result of the economic crisis, as well as new Internet-based tools available to automotive professionals and private-owners, the business of selling cars will never be the same. This topic will document this shift in how automobiles are bought and sold in the United States.
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U.S. automakers, including Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, are facing a tough road ahead. They are looking for ways to stay afloat in down economy, while keeping an eye on the future of the industry as a whole. This topic covers the most important developments and analysis on the automobile industry and many of its key players.
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In a global economy, it’s important for the U.S. to remain competitive as many countries develop into true competitors. This topic covers information, opinion, and news related to the state of U.S. competitiveness in the global world and how we can continue to stay at the top of our game.
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A complicating factor in the current economic turmoil is that too many citizens don't know much about how the economy works, nor do they have a historic context for it -- they just have ideology. How many citizens can describe the economic collapse of 1929-33 and relate it to today's conditions? U.S. Economic history covers the historical context of the economic situation and sheds light on some much-needed information from the past.
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Discussions of potential U.S. economic stimulus plans are heating up. The government is prepared to spend billions to help the economy regain its footing, but questions remain about where the money should be best applied, what sectors should receive aid -- and what the likely outcomes will be.
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With gas prices remaining high, the U.S. energy policy is top of mind for most Americans. This topic covers the U.S. policy regarding energy production, use, resources, and technologies, as well as talk about the economic and environmental consequences.
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As America enters its worst economic period since the Great Depression, it is essential that we develop a broad understanding of the many factors that contributed to the U.S. financial crisis. This topic covers the latest news and information on the U.S. financial crisis, including a deep look into possible causes.
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The U.S. healthcare system has been deemed one of the costliest in the world. The debate surrounding the healthcare in the U.S. often concerns access, efficiency, and quality for the price. Obama ran on platform that promised universal coverage for all Americans. This topic covers the latest news and information on the U.S. healthcare system and how evolves in the coming years.
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The U.S. economy was built upon manufacturing. Now, after decades of outsourcing, most experts believe at least part of the answer for restoring the health of the U.S. economy is to get back to it's manufacturing roots. This topic will cover news on U.S. manufacturing.
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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. Since its reorganization into an independent organization, the USPS has become self-sufficient and has not received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s. The decline of mail volume due to increased usage of e-mail has forced the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to maintain this financial balance. This topic covers the latest news and information the U.S. Postal Service.
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U.S. retail sales continue to decline with the down economy. This topic looks at the effects of the declined retail sales in the U.S., what that means for the future, and what retailers are doing to help boost revenue.
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The trends and major news events driving the movement of the U.S. stock market, especially the factors influencing the major U.S. stock indexes, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P; 500, upon which so many investment funds are based. This topic also offers insights into future developments that could push U.S. stocks higher or lower, with special attention to the impact of corporate earnings and broad economic trends on equity values.
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U.S. tech policy is a broad term used to describe government legislation and regulations that impact technology businesses and consumers. This topic focuses on news and information about tech policy in the U.S., including areas like patent reform, network neutrality, broadband deployment, digital privacy, copyright, etc.
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Oil and gas are the main industries in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Other business activity has been government sponsored as a way to diversify the economy and reduce the country’s dependence on oil. UAE business covers the latest news and reports on business developments in the United Arab Emirates.
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UBS AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides a range of financial products and services worldwide. It is the world's largest manager of private wealth assets, "the world's biggest manager of other people's money" and is also the second-largest bank in Europe, by both market capitalization and profitability. The company’s wealth management and business banking operations include the provision of a range of products and services for high net worth and affluent individuals.
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The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of Caifornia, Irvine, offers four dynamic MBA programs – plus PhD and undergraduate business degrees – that deliver its thematic approach to business education: sustained growth through strategic innovation. While the Merage School is relatively young, it has quickly grown to consistently rank among the top 10% of all AACSB-accredited programs.
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Consistently ranked among the Top 20 programs, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management’s full-time MBA is the degree of choice for West Coast B-schoolers looking for a top-notch program in finance, marketing, or entrepreneurship. A highly selective program, Anderson boasts an award-winning faculty and wins high marks from recruiters, especially in the areas of accounting and communication skills.
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The UConn School of Business offers academic programs at the bachelors, masters, doctorate and advanced certificate levels, in five Connecticut locations -- Storrs, Hartford, Stamford, Torrington and Waterbury. The University of Connecticut's business school, established in 1941, spans a wide array of functional disciplines: Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Operations and Information Management.
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Many businesses choose the UK as their European business headquarters, and the numbers continue to grow. UK business covers all the news and information on businesses in the UK, including business opportunities and ideas.
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Online advertising continues to grow worldwide. The UK online advertising market is the largest in Europe. This topic tracks the latest news on the UK online advertising market as it continues to evolve.
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Ukraine, with more than 40 million citizens in the heart of Europe, is one of the world's often overlooked growth opportunities. Although Ukraine's economy is volatile and in recent years political stability has been in short supply, it remains a country with tremendous potential, a high level of intellectual capital, and vast natural resources. The business potential of the Ukraine should not be overlooked. This topic tracks the latest news on Ukraine business.
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Whether the job loss is in sectors, states, regions, or the nation, unemployment will increasingly become the subject of much discussion. In fact, news of the rising unemployment rate and company layoffs abound as the we face the biggest economic downturn of a generation. This topic will track the latest news that projects future numbers, identifies repercussions, and pontificates on private and public fixes.
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Unfair dismissal is the term used to describe an employer's action when terminating an employee's contract unfairly. Normally the employee's contract and employment legislation protect the employee from being dismissed unfairly, and allow recourse in law.
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Unified Communications (UC) ties together voice, video, and data in such a way that users have always-available access across different devices. Some of the key goals of UC are a single number which routes calls to a current device or phone, the ability to switch quickly between media (IM to voice, email to IM), using the media that's appropriate to device capabilities (text to speech, or speech to text), and intelligent routing of calls based on user status or location.
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Unilever N.V. is a multinational corporation that owns many of the world’s consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning supplies, and personal care products. Top brands include: Axe, Dove, Pond’s, and Vaseline in the personal care division and Hellmann’s, Slim-Fast, Lipton, and Knorr in food. Unilever, formerly known as Naamlooze Vennootschap Margarine Unie, was founded in 1927.
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Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, provides rail transportation services in North America. It has approximately 32,205 route miles linking Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast ports with the Midwest and eastern U.S. gateways, and provides various corridors to Mexican gateways. Union Pacific Corporation was founded in 1862 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.
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United Airlines, the main subsidiary of UAL Corporation (NASDAQ: UAUA), operates nearly 3,000 flights a day on United and United Express to more than 200 U.S. domestic and international destinations from its hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. With key global air rights in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and Latin America, United Airlines is one of the largest international carriers based in the United States.
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Founded in 1935, United Auto Workers (UAW) is a union that represents workers in United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Though most UAW workers do work in the automobile manufacturing industry, there are also some that work in various industry, including health care, casinos, and higher education. This topic covers the latest news and information on the United Auto Workers.
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United Parcel Service, Inc., a package delivery company, provides transportation, logistics, and financial services in the United States and internationally. UPS is well known for its brown trucks, internally known as package cars. As of December 31, 2007, the company operated a fleet of approximately 101,000 package cars, vans, tractors, and motorcycles, as well as utilized approximately 600 airplanes.
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United Technologies Corp. researches, develops, and manufactures high-technology products in numerous areas, including aircraft engines, helicopters, heating and cooling, fuel cells, elevators and escalators, fire and security, building systems, and industrial products, among others. United Technologies is also a large military contractor, producing missile systems and military helicopters, most notably the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
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UnitedHealth Group, Inc., based in Minneapolis, is a diversified health and well-being company in the U.S. The company provides individuals with heathcare sercices and resources through more than 560,000 physicians and 4,800 hospitals.UnitedHealth Group offers a broad spectrum of products and services through seven operating businesses: UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, AmeriChoice, Uniprise, OptumHealth, Ingenix, and Prescription Solutions. .
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Universal design is a philosophy/concept for creating technology that everyone can use, including people with disabilities and older people. Oftentimes, technology is created for mainstream use, then retrofitted for the disabled and aging population, which is costly and cumbersome. Universal design calls for designing a product from the ground up with accessibility and usability already built in; doing so makes good business sense and makes new technologies more socially sustainable.
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Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are expected to show a significant increase in worldwide use in the near future. Unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV) are powered, aerial vehicles that do not carry a human pilot, use aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, and may fly autonomously or be piloted remotely. The current state of the art in UAS is leading to the rapid development of applications to fill many diverse requirements. UAS applications include such areas as agriculture, communications relays, aerial photography, mapping, emergency management, and scientific research. The safe operation of UAS outside segregated airspace requires addressing the same issues as manned aircraft, namely integration into the air traffic control system. The development of the UAS is based on recent technological advances in aviation, electronics, and metallurgy making the economics of UAS operations more favorable particularly for more repetitive, routine and long-haul duration applications. This topic covers the latest news and information on unmanned aircrafts, including more commercial uses of the vehicles.
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In July of 2007, the SEC removed something called the uptick rule. The uptick rule is a securities trading rule used to regulate short selling in financial markets. The rule mandates that, when sold, a listed security must either be sold short at a price above the price at which the immediately preceding sale was affected or at the last sale price if it is higher than the last different price. This topic covers the latest news of calls to revive the uptick rule.
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The new wave of urban planning -- urbanism -- is decidedly anti-Suburbia. It’s also anything but new. But its urban planning principles are gaining new life as Americans grapple with higher energy, food, and other household costs. Architects, urban planners, and academics are redefining what’s now needed to create vibrant mixed-use towns and cities out of a discipline that started 25 years ago.
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US Airways Group, Inc., is one of the leading passenger air carriers in the U.S. It operates some 3,800 flights daily to 230 locals in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. US Airways operates 356 mainline jets supported by its regional subsidiaries and affiliates operating as US Airways Express, which have some 232 regional jets and 104 turboprops. It extends its network via the Star Alliance, a marketing and code-sharing partnership lead by United Airlines and Lufthansa.
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U.S. Bancorp operates as the parent company of U.S. Bank, one of the U.S.’ top ten banks. U.S. Bankcorp has more than 2,500 locations and some 5,000 branded ATMs in the mid-west and the west. It generates various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market savings, and time certificates of deposit accounts. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Minneapolis.
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The U.S. economy affects businesses and individuals on a daily basis. This topic covers the health of the U.S. economy, as well as general trends and forecasts
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US-CAFTA is the free trade agreement between the U.S., the Central American countries and the Dominican Republic. CAFTA was among the priorities of the Bush administration, so many are keeping an eye on what changes (if any) will be made by the incoming Obama administration. This topic covers the latest news on US-CAFTA.
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The University of San Diego School of Business Administration aims to develop socially responsible business leaders with a global outlook through academically rigorous, relevant, and values-based education and research. At the graduate level, USD offers full-time and part-time MBA studies, international MBAs, dual degrees and joint degrees. Undergraduate business majors include degrees in business administration, finance, accountancy, business economics, and marketing.
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User engagement is probably one of most important topics in new media development for cross-platform media and product development. This topic expands on prior fields of user interface design, usability engineering to cover the entire user experience for cross platform brand engagement. Some touch points discussed in user engagement will include print, TV, Web, and virtual reality.
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How a person reacts to a Web site determines that user's experience with the product and can determine a return visit. The usability of a Web site, which usually refers to the elegance, flow-of-content & clarity with which the site is designed, can ensure a positive user experience.
