Zipcar: Great Business Model, Poor Business – The Wall Street Journal.

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Zipcar: Great Business Model, Poor Business

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H-P Faces a Long, Hard Grind – The Wall Street Journal.

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H-P Faces a Long, Hard Grind

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When Freemium Fails – The Wall Street Journal.

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When Freemium Fails

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Dell’s Virtuous Cycle Stops Spinning – The Wall Street Journal.

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Dell’s Virtuous Cycle Stops Spinning

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Video – Interview Exclusive: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop – WSJ.com

More than seven years before Apple Inc. AAPL -0.72% rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The device was shown locating a restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering lipstick. In the late 1990s, Nokia secretly developed another alluring product: a tablet computer with a wireless connection and touch screen—all features today of the hot-selling Apple iPad.

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Retail’s New Odd Couple: Target and Neiman Marcus – The Wall Street Journal.

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Retail’s New Odd Couple: Target and Neiman Marcus

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Inside Apple’s Approach to Mobile Payments – The Wall Street Journal.

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Inside Apple’s Approach to Mobile Payments

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How Airlines Spend Your Airfare – The Wall Street Journal.

How Airlines Spend Your Airfare

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On an airplane carrying 100 passengers, how many customers does it take, on average, to cover the cost of the flight?

The Middle Seat asked US Airways and consulting firm Oliver Wyman to crunch airline expenses down to the percentages that an individual passenger pays, taking a hard look at costs of running an airline. US Airways created a hypothetical flight of 100 passengers. Each one paid the average $146 fare for a domestic flight ($292 round-trip), plus $18 each in fees and add-ons, based on a year’s worth of data ending March 31. The bottom line: There is very little wiggle room on the plane for profit.

Wal-Mart’s Mexican Mess – The Wall Street Journal.

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Wal-Mart’s Mexican Mess

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Wal-Mart‘s WMT +2.02%Mexican crisis is a $10 billion problem. At least that was the stock market’s first take. Investors wiped that amount of the company’s market capitalization following allegations in the New York Times of bribery at its Wal-Mart de Mexico subsidiary.

At first glance, the 5% share price fall looks harsh given that Wal-Mart’s 69% stake in the subsidiary generated about 5% of its sales last year. The business is not about to vanish overnight. But investors are right to be cautious.

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First, the international business, of which Mexico is a key part, helped Wal-Mart boost sales by an average of 5.2% annually over the last five years. The U.S. business grew only 3.2% a year. Wal-Mart’s ability to expand further in Mexico might now be affected. Hobble Wal-Mart’s international operations and it is left with a U.S. business that competes with the Internet and has become increasingly reliant on a low-margin grocery business.

The Two-Horse Smartphone Race – The Wall Street Journal.

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The Two-Horse Smartphone Race

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Apple Inc. AAPL +1.16%and Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE +1.36%should make it abundantly clear this week that the smartphone industry is increasingly dividing into the haves and have-nots.