What makes companies top? Well, there are several factors; however, one of the most important factors is the leadership.
Leaders are those people who inspire us, organize us, and lead us to an ambitious goal. A good leader is brave to admit his or her faults.

Glenn Kelman who is the leader of Redfin, which is an online real estate brokerage firm, is very humble. The firm gives 2/3 of the commissions, which are charged by traditional agents; while, real estate agents disliked it, and blacklisted the firm. Kelman then set up a blog talking about the bad aspects of real estate as well as his self-criticism and company’s internal suffering. Customers loved the behavior and the company’s blog. More and more customers started believing in Redfin, and the business grew significantly. Thanks to Kelman’s modest attitude, the company gains more success and reputation.

According to Macleans’ blog, there is a patent fight between Apple and Samsung, which are two largest smart phone companies. These two companies all argued that opponent made infringement.

      
From my perspective, it is inevitable for smart phone companies to have overlap. For example, the recent ios.7 system is quite similar with android system. The new system does not like Apple’s style at all.
The lawsuits of patent fight costs two companies a lot and I think they should not pay attention to the patent competition but should focus on new technology research. Besides, each companies should find their uniqueness and make innovations from the old and unique products.

After reading Jiaqi Zhai’s blog, I got interested form Snapchat and looked for the background and news about it. Snapchat is an app, which can be used to message and photo-sharing. The Snapchat Company just declined $3 billion offer provided by Facebook. $3 billion is a considerably large number; however, it is quite interesting that this small company, which has just started approximately 2 years, unexpectedly not get appealed by the intriguing amount of money. Therefore, I downloaded the Snapchat app, and I started to recognize its uniqueness.

Snapchat is an app, which include photos and videos. But the difference from other photo-sharing app, people can set up a time, and after the timing ends, the photo will disappear. It indeed protects users’ privacy.

However, I think Snapchat won’t increase its users rapidly as it does presently. Recently, it is labeled as sexting app. Since the photo can be disappeared in a second, people who send pornography won’t worry about being caught. Besides, students may use this as a cheating tool when having exam. Consequently, I think Snapchat should adjust and modify its previous strategy, or it will not have long term success.

When Black Friday comes, every shopping mall in the USA provides extremely attractive deals. In order to retain customers, many Canadian shopping malls, for example, Metrotown, decide to offer great deals to Canadian customers.

The sales will remain 3 days from November 29^th to December 1^st. The malls will open earlier than normal times on November 29^th at 7am. Shops will also give appealing coupons to customers who arrive earlier

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I think the decision is right. First, during Black Friday, although the prices of the products are pretty low, the sales will increase considerably because of increasing customers’ demand. Besides, shops can use the special day to reduce the plentiful inventories.

Weili Dai is a co-founder of Marvell, which is one of the top 5 silicon chip makers in the world. Weili launched the company in the year of 1995, and she found that it was not easy to start a new company. She had to think about how they convinced the customers to deal with a startup company and the fund. Ms. Dai and her co founder made every decision cautiously, and the behavior indeed paid off.

Ms. Dai treats her employee very well. She always believes that her success, the company’s success and the team’s success are everybody’s efforts. So, because of having a kind boss and royal and hard working employees, Marvell runs very well.

The company has met many challenges; however, Ms.Dai remains being positive, and she focuses on the long term success.

The U.S Justice Department has approved the 11-billion merger of American Airlines and US Airways, and the merger makes create the largest airline around the world.

The U.S Justice Department refused to allow American Airlines and US Airways. It concerned that the merger would dominate the flights and lead to an increase of fares. But the Department dropped its opposition of the merger after the agreement: The two airlines would reduce the slots for low-cost carriers.

For American Airlines and US Airways, the merger gives more strength in the marketplace. Although two airlines accept the scaling deal, they still possess 57 percent of national flights in the airports; thus, unfortunately, it will reduce the airlines’ competition and lead to the increase of price of flight ticket. The consequence is absolutely disadvantageous for consumers, while it will create huge benefits for two airlines.