Ailing Best Buy
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A Times article on Yahoo's decision to require employees to work from the office rather than telecommuting from home includes the sentence, "On Monday, another ailing company, Best Buy, announced that it, too, would no longer permit employees to work remotely, reversing one of the most permissive flexible workplace policies in the business world."

Is it accurate to describe Best Buy as "ailing" or fair to do so without including (or, apparently, even seeking) comment from Best Buy responding to that characterization?

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Google Glass Partnership
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An article in the business section of the Times reports that three venture capital funds have teamed up to look to fund applications for Google Glass, the glasses with some mobile computing functionality built in that are forthcoming from Google:

On Wednesday, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz announced the Glass Collective, an investment partnership. The three firms said they had agreed to share every pitch from start-ups related to Glass, so each firm would have the chance to invest.

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Google Glass Partnership
smartertimes.com

An article in the business section of the Times reports that three venture capital funds have teamed up to look to fund applications for Google Glass, the glasses with some mobile computing functionality built in that are forthcoming from Google:

On Wednesday, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz announced the Glass Collective, an investment partnership. The three firms said they had agreed to share every pitch from start-ups related to Glass, so each firm would have the chance to invest.

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Ailing Best Buy
smartertimes.com

A Times article on Yahoo's decision to require employees to work from the office rather than telecommuting from home includes the sentence, "On Monday, another ailing company, Best Buy, announced that it, too, would no longer permit employees to work remotely, reversing one of the most permissive flexible workplace policies in the business world."

Is it accurate to describe Best Buy as "ailing" or fair to do so without including (or, apparently, even seeking) comment from Best Buy responding to that characterization?

Read More...