Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs advised him on how to sharpen his company’s focus and build the right management team for the world’s largest social network. “I had a lot of questions for him,” Zuckerberg said in an interview with Charlie Rose that’s due to air Tuesday. The topics included “how to build a team around you that’s focused on building as high quality and good things as you are.” Jobs, in the period before he died on Oct. 5,

Olympus Corp. said it hid losses by paying inflated fees to advisers on the 2008 acquisition of Gyrus Group Plc, the first admission of wrongdoing from the Japanese camera and medical-equipment maker since accusations from its former chief executive officer surfaced four weeks ago. Executive Vice President Hisashi Mori was dismissed over his role in the cover-up, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement Tuesday. The stock plunged by the daily limit after an independent panel Olympus appointed

The state-run broadcaster KBS said its president Kim In-kyu has been elected the 13th president of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union at the organization’s 48th general meeting in New Delhi, India.It is the first time a Korean broadcasting chief has been elected to the position, KBS said.Recommended by acting president Datuk Ibrahim Yahaya, director-general of Radio-Television Malaysia (RTM), Kim was the sole candidate for the post and more than 50 member broadcasters unanimously voted for his

In 1968, a young Park Chul, about to enter Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, was advised by a friend to study Spanish because it would be the language of the future.While Spanish did not eclipse English as the lingua franca of business, diplomacy and politics, it did find its place as the second most used language in terms of native speakers with almost 400 million Spanish speakers in 21 countries and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.For Park who is now the presiden

Kim Jung-hee had long set her eyes on the fashion industry of New York City, partly because she felt similarities to it and living in the hip and fashionable Hongdae district in Seoul and also because she majored in fashion and art education in college and worked as a fashion jewelry designer. “I noticed there’s opportunity in the fashion jewelry market in New York City because it’s growing despite the economic slowdown,” the 37-year-old said in an interview. “Although the economy was bad, New Y

BOSTON (AP) ― Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock and MRI machines, has died, his wife said.Ramsey died in his sleep at a Wayland nursing home on Friday, Ellie Ramsey said Monday. He was 96.Ramsey, an emeritus professor of physics at Harvard University and longtime Brookline resident, wrote in his autobiography for the Nobel Prize he shared with Hans Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul that he was

I didn’t see any Ruth Madoff masks on Halloween night, but it wouldn’t have surprised me if I had. The wife of disgraced Wall Street Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff was Pariah No. 1 last week, followed closely by her son, Andrew. The two, along with Andrew’s fiance, appeared on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night (Oct. 30) to promote their “authorized family biography,” “Truth and Consequences.”“I have been eager, I would say almost desperate, to speak out publicly and tell people that I’m absolutely not

Koreans often seem to be confused by the question, “Do good people build a good society, or does a good society foster good people?” The former claim may be the basis for a liberal, democratic society and the latter for a socialist country. Living in a group-oriented society, many Koreans ultimately seem to be inclined to the latter, believing in the power of a good society rather than in the strength of the individual. As someone who studies and teaches literature, however, I believe in the pow

MONROVIA (AP) ― Violence broke out at opposition headquarters, killing at least one person hours before Liberia’s presidential runoff on Tuesday, a vote that tests the West African nation’s fragile peace after a devastating civil war.Despite sharp criticism from the United States, the U.N. and election monitors, opposition leader Winston Tubman kept urging supporters to boycott Tuesday’s runoff.Demonstrators clashed with police in one rally backing the boycott, leaving one young man dead inside

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The United States is increasingly worried by indications that Iran may be on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, but the latest report on its atomic program from a U.N. watchdog is unlikely to sway the Obama administration from its plan to rely on sanctions and diplomatic pressure, not military threats, to deter Iranian ambitions.Ahead of the release this week of a new report on the Iranian program from the International Atomic Energy Agency, U.S. officials said Monday th