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2015 Newsmakers of the Year
TWICE presents the 2015 Newsmakers of the Year. The editors have selected members of this year’s class based on a complex editorial algorithm encompassing...
2015 Newsmakers of the Year
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Eddie Lampert: The Billionaire On His 9th Retail Life
What’s your end game, Eddie? That’s the question everyone’s been asking, literally from day one. Back in November 2004, at an analyst/press conference where...
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Bob Abt: The House That Bob Built
It’s hard to describe Abt Electronics unless you’ve actually been there. The privately held company’s lone Chicagoland mega-showroom is part department store and part...
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Hubert Joly: Building A Better Best Buy
And they said it couldn’t be done. Just three scant years ago pundits were ready to write off Best Buy, which, between sagging sales,...
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Marc Lore: A Successful Flight Path For Jet.com
It may not be the anti-Amazon of pre-launch hype, but e-commerce veteran Marc Lore has so far demonstrated Jet.com’s airworthiness. The e-tail upstart took...
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Jeff Bezos: Attaining Greater Heights
It was another busy year for Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. First up, the e-commerce king’s ideations literally took flight in 2015, on two fronts. Last...
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Jun Lei: A Steve Jobs Doppelganger In China?
China’s Xiaomi was founded in 2010 by Lei Jun is a purveyor of sleek, affordable good-quality phones sold only on the Internet and promoted...
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John Legere: The Uncarrier’s Uncommon CEO
John Legere didn’t hold back this year in the speed with which he rolled out wireless initiatives or the pace with which fourletter words...
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Vincent Bruno: A Change At The Top In The Custom World
Longtime Crestron executive Vincent Bruno came on board Oct. 1 as the first CEDIA CEO in more than three years, and he has plans...
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Carl Pei: The Smartphone Biz Gets A Disruptor
Carl Pei, co-founder of Chinese smartphone start-up OnePlus, won’t let the facts get in the way of success. Fact: In the third quarter, five...
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Marcelo Claure: The CEO Who Stanched The Bleeding
Marcelo Claure inherited a mess when he became Sprint president/CEO in August 2014. Sprint had been losing money every year since 2007. On top...
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Eric Migicovsky: The Wearables World’s Game Changer
It was a busy year for Eric Migicovsky. The founder and CEO of Pebble — the start-up that’s not really a start-up anymore —...
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Mark Fields: Accelerating The Future Of Cars
Mark Fields has put the future firmly in Ford’s headlights. “I describe our strategy as having one foot in today and one foot in...
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Taylor Swift: A Pop Princess And Her Fight For Fairness
She could be a newsmaker twice over. Although Taylor Swift’s bad blood with with music-streaming service Spotify first began in November 2014 — when...
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Neil Young: Swimming Against The Mainstream
When it comes to “Music the way the artist intended,” the oft-heard sound byte used by the CE industry to describe sound quality, Neil...
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Carly Fiorina: From Controversial CEO To Divisive GOP Candidate
Although Carly Fiorina has used her past position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard as her platform for capturing the Republican presidential nomination, critics have pointed...
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