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business. As a private firm, there's no way to document the extent of their business than that number, and their staff size. It wouldn't make a person notable as an investor, and much less a company. The articles are either straight or disguised PR. The LA times one included. the
BusinessWeek article uses them only as an example. No respectable promotional author would I hope have accepted this assignment; I prefer to imagine it was someone associated with the company: the naivité of actually trying a see also to their Business school in addition to the proper link in the text is exceptionally crude article writing, and giving a bold heading to each of their products is just as crude, though unfortunately more common. If we do keep an article, the financial data needs to be added. ~
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