For Bravo, One Screen Isn't Enough

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November 12, 2010
Innovation & Design A weekly guide to innovative people, ideas, and companies

NEWS  THIS WEEK'S TOP STORY TECHNOLOGY For Bravo, One Screen Isn't Enough Networks are encouraging TV viewers to go online simultaneously   MORE TOP STORIES BLOOMBERG Mummy Guide to Hereafter Fascinates at British Museum Death in ancient Egypt was far from straightforward. A new and splendid exhibition at the British Museum â?oJourney Through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Deadâ? makes that clear STOCKS & MARKETS How Panera Bread Kept Rising Through the Recession Executive Chairman Ronald Shaich tells Businessweek.com the chain prospered by adding staff and boosting food quality while competitors cut back GIGAOM • From GigaOm Will Location-Based Services Ever Go Mainstream? Many people say they're uncomfortable with sharing their physical location with others, which they feel breaches a personal privacy barrier AUTOS Fiat's New Uphill Climb in the U.S. With the 500 subcompact, it makes an auspicious return to the States—but it's a crowded market FEATURES The New New Andreessen With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker  BW MALL  SPONSORED LINKS Buy a link now! This newsletter is a FREE service provided by BusinessWeek.com. To sign up for other newsletters, cancel delivery, change delivery options or change your e-mail address, please go to our Newsletter Preferences page. If you need other assistance, please contact Customer Service or contact: Wanda Cooper BusinessWeek Customer Rights Communications Data Services 1995 G Avenue Red Oak, IA 51566 Phone: 1-800-635-1200 To learn more about how BusinessWeek.com applies this policy, you can contact our Marketing Department. Copyright 2009-2010 by BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Terms of Use | Privacy Notice

Inside: This Week in Innovation This week we hear how some networks such as Bravo are encouraging viewers to go online to the network's website simultaneously while watching a show on TV. Plus you will find out about a new exhibition at the British Museum that could help guide you through the afterlife with the use of the Egyptian "Book of the Dead". E-MAIL A FRIEND  |  GET RSS  |  NEWSLETTERS   FEATURED PODCAST New Products Require Quicker R&D Despite financial, economic, and regulatory pressures, companies must hurry along their product development. Standardizing or automating routine processes can help, as Asian leaders are showing   Advertisement   Reader Poll: Special Issue Trouble at the office? In surveys, blogs, polls, and social media, BusinessWeek collaborated with readers to identify problems at work. Together we found answers.     IN YOUR FACE: FROM FIREFIGHTER TO ENTREPRENEUR Reader Dan Miller Writes: "The bright line between invention and innovation: collaboration. It takes a team focused on the customer to be a winner." Sponsored by Tres Generaciones Tequila Tell Us: Are You a Believer in 'Coopetition'?     NEXT: Innovation Tools & Trends >> Plenty of architecture's biggest names have been laid low by the Great Recession, as I wrote recently in Bloomberg Businessweek. One partnership has never had it better, however: New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro. -- Michael Arndt POST YOUR OWN COMMENTS Visit Our Other Blogs Auto Beat Bangalore Tigers Blogspotting Brand New Day Byte of the Apple Economics Unbound European Insight Fine On Media Games, Inc. GreenBiz Hot Property Investing Insights Management IQ New Technology in Asia NEXT: Innovation Tools & Trends NussbaumOnDesign Tech Beat Working Parents Advertisement   FEATURED SPECIAL REPORT >> The Value of Design Slide Shows World's Most Influential Designers Most Inventive Companies How Companies Develop Great Leaders The catalyst for this report was the outpouring of reader comments that arrived after a bad-tempered blog post Why Design Matters Good business outcomes treat design as a holistic process that pulls in savvy marketing and research, as well as smart ideas The Value of Design to Startups Design and marketing are way more important than engineering for consumer Internet companies How to Redesign Health Care The health-care system in the U.S. is a mess. But that doesn't mean there aren't opportunities The Role of Design in Business The four basic areas in which design has an important role to play in value creation READER COMMENTS > MORE SPECIAL REPORTS >