NationStates Jolt Archive

ACE Business


'...And the latest in business news. Apparently the Shenanigans franchise name has branched into the hospitality industry today, with the announcement of a new hotel chain known as "The Coincidental". The new chain is expected to open its first location on the pleasure planet of Arcturus IV, an already popular tourist destination with an estimated 590,000 hotels, spas and luxury resorts. What makes "The Coincidental" unique is that it is the first foreign enterprise to be allowed to open its doors on the usually protectionist world of Arcturus IV. This has given the Shenanigans franchise name a huge boon in the stock market and it's expected to...'

Would you like to know more?

Tsarhof, Earth, Derscon

Prince Tarakh Andropov was sitting back and enjoying the night, waiting for the helicopter to return with his date tonight when he saw the ACE report in his RSS feed. Skimming over it, he nodded.

Would you like to know more? He moved the pointer over the link and clicked. "Oh yes, yes I do."

Three Fat Chickens Restaurant, Wysken, Reijvajik

John Alderson, head of Invictis Inc., the largest software company in Reijvajik, had arrived some thirty minutes early for an important business function at one of the finest restaurants in Wysken. He couldn't help but fish out from his pocket his flashy new touch phone, and went through his usual news feeds. Finding there to be nothing worth reading about, he checked his RSS feed, and found the ACE Report at the top of the menu.
Reading over it, he finally got to the point at which the text asked, "Would you lie to know more," paused for a second, selected "No", and moved on.

After fifteen minutes, Alderson began to find playing solitary Mahjong over and over again rather boring; and his mind began to think about the ACE Report again. He went back to the report, re-read it, and finally decided that he might like to know more. After all, he still had a quarter of an hour to kill.