Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 20, 2014

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(1) Siddharth Philip, Datsun's Second Life Isn't So Good, After All. www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... viewed-as-too-cheap

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Resurrected in emerging markets, its cars are viewed as too cheap

(b) "Before Alisha Gracias, a 26-year-old physiotherapist in the western Indian state of Goa, bought her first car in April, she looked at a lot of different models. Among them was the new 312,270 rupees ($5,084) Go hatchback from Datsun, the nameplate that Nissan brought out of hibernation in 2013 to churn out inexpensive no-frills cars in emerging markets. Although Gracias was familiar with the model, she wasn’t smitten. Instead, she paid almost 50 percent more than the top-end version of the Go to buy a Grand i10 made by Hyundai * * * In India, where the Datsun Go went on sale on March 19," 2014
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(A) Goa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa
(India's smallest state by area; Panaji is the state's capital, while Vasco da Gama is the largest city)
(B) José Nicolau da Fonseca, An Historical and Archæological Sketch of the City of Goa. Bombay: Thacker & Co, Ltd, 1878, at page 115
books.google.com/books?id=MRwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=goa+etymology&source=bl&ots=V-RRQYmzah&sig=2N3Y9MA7lQU0LRJYEajqrqIEt_0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w7hBVNm4AtaAsQSS-4DoDA&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=goa%20etymology&f=false
("Diogo de Couto traces the etymology of the word Goa to Goemoat, which in the ancient language of the place, he says signified a fertile and refreshing land, and which was in course of time contracted into Goe, and subsequently corrupted by the Portuguese into Goa")
(ii) Datsun Go
www.datsun.com/en/models/go.aspx
(iii) Hyundai Grand i10 (by Hyundai Motor India)
www.hyundai.com/in/en/Showroom/Cars/Grand-i10/PIP/index.html

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(2) Peter Robinson; Another Privacy Concern: Police Spying on Cell Phones www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... o-track-cell-phones
(StingRay, by Harris: “a cell phone tracking tool * * * The suitcase-size devices send signals that mimic cell towers, tricking phones as far as a mile away into transmitting identifying information”)

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Cash meant for counterterrorism equipment has gone to buy cell phone surveillance tools that track everyone, not just criminals
(b) Nathan Freed Wessler, Police Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracker From Courts Because Manufacturer Asked. ACLU, Mar 3, 2014
www.aclu.org/blog/national-secur ... cker-courts-because
(c) It is possible that Los Angeles police tracked down the BMW robbery with the same device.


(3) Gregory Larkin and David Knowles, Oregon Voters Will Decide on GMO Food-Labeling.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... labeling-referendum

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: After defeats in California and Washington, food activists hope they can win on labeling for genetically engineered foods in Oregon
(b) It is conceivable that the GMO labeling, or not, will be settled in court, whether states or Food and Drug Administration has the authority over the matter.