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- What Napster Has That Apple Doesn't
- While most pundits have been busy leaking rumors about MySpace Music, expected to launch this week, Best Buy has made a surprise play with its $121 million purchase of Napster. Industry watchers are openly wondering why Best Buy would want the struggling music service that many still...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Advertising Roundup: Yahoo and Google Feeling Slow Ad Market, FTC Cracking Down on Greenwashing, and More
- Yahoo reports Q3 earnings, layoffs -- Yahoo reported a 64 percent drop in income for Q3 and CEO Jerry Yang warned investors that the near future of the advertising market isn't looking bright. The company will slash 10 percent of its workforce in Q4. [Source: CNET] FTC...
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
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- 3 Xstrata grabs Canadian foothold in Sudbury.(Xstrata PLC)
- The arrival of European mining giant Xstrata in northeastern Ontario should herald "the dawn of tremendous expansion" for the service industry and the economy, says a Northern Ontario mining industry watcher. The arrival of European mining giant Xstrata in northeastern Ontario should herald...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Mood dampened at annual SEMI gala
- Santa Clara, Calif.--At Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International's 23rd annual awards dinner last week, the mood was definitely dampened from last year's event, when the industry was still riding high on the DRAM crest, with no trough in sight.The heavily attended SEMI event drew almost 1,000 representatives of semiconductor companies...
- Research articles 1996-09-30
- Odlum Brown Analyst Sees Upside in CP and CN Rail
- FP Trading Desk submits: Canadian National Railway Co.CNI and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. CP remain interesting plays for investors, according to an industry watcher who sees continued upside for the railway operators, in spite of problems that have recently hurt the industry. Odlum Brown Limited analyst Stephen Boland likes...
- External links 2008-08-01
- The Medicare-Bill Aftermath: Industry Implications
- Congress overruled President Bush's veto of the latest Medicare bill, sealing a big victory for doctors over insurance companies. As we noted last week, the bill puts off an automatic cut in physician fees by limiting subsidies to insurance companies. (Paul Krugman, I should note, offered a take similar to...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- World oil production drops despite rise in OPEC output
- LONDON AP -- World oil production fell in June despite increased output by most OPEC members, and a key industry watcher expressed concern about the possibility of heating oil shortages later this year.
- Research articles 2000-07-12
- Masco group sold. (home furnishings division sold to investor group)
- An investor group headed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners has agreed to acquire Masco Corp's home furnishings business for $1.1 billion. The home group consists of six fabric companies and nine furniture and accessories companies, some of which are very profitable and others of which will need some attention, according...
- Research articles 1995-11-27
- Slow-selling minivans ripe for discounts
- DETROIT -- Minivan shoppers are being offered more rebates and other incentives this fall as automakers attempt to stanch the flow of customers looking for alternatives to the family haulers. Minivan sales are down 12.4% for the first nine months of the year compared with the same time last year,...
- Research articles 2006-10-19
- The business challenge
- Planning for the unexpected is never easy. And when it comes to quantifying the risk of an IT interruption and allocating appropriate budget, many organisations struggle to formulate adequate continuity plans - whether for minor interruptions or major disasters. Despite awareness of outages due to server overheating, security breaches...
- Research articles 2005-04-10
- Market Research - Internet seen as ally for channel partners - Industry Trend or Event
- The Internet Is Channel Partners' Friend, IDC Report Insists Despite many predictions to the contrary, the Internet will work as a "powerful ally rather than a decimating nemesis" for channel partners, predicts IT market watcher International Data Corp. As companies move their strategic operations online, IDC says channel...
- Research articles 1999-11-22
- Positive graph expo attendance: leading economic indicator?(News)(Brief Article)
- If the number of attendees at this fall's Graph Expo and Converting Expo 2003 could be considered a leading economic indicator, the printing and converting business can look forward to a much brighter 2004. Three years of a down market for publication-advertising sales, ...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- The Week in Quotes.(News)(Quotation)
- "The other thing that's critical to the success of Giant Eagle is that it's family-owned and operated, and is spending a ton of time in the market. Tops was well-run until most of the major management decisions went to (Royal Ahold N.V.).'' - Grocery...
- Research articles 2006-11-27
- Pathmark purchase tough to swallow, consultant says
- The $11 billion supermarket giant to be created through A&P's acquisition of Pathmark doesn't appear strong enough to surmount the problems that brought both companies together, a supermarket industry watcher says. W. Frank Dell II says The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. won't be strong enough to withstand competition...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Smaller Tenants Stabilize Rising Vacancy Rates for Albany, N.Y., Real Estate.
- By Kevin Harlin, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 14--Smaller tenants moving in have stabilized rising vacancy rates in the Capital Region over the past few months, according to the latest survey from industry watcher CB Richard Ellis/Albany. ...
- Research articles 2003-11-14
- Surprising growth forecast - Of Interest - Brief Article
- DELEGATES AT THE RECENT INDUSTRY STRATEGY SYMPOsium (ISS2002) in Lisbon, Portugal, were taken by surprise by a forecast of 20.8 percent growth in the value of the semiconductor industry this year. Risto Puhakka of market watcher VLSI Research said, "We are estimating semiconductor industry growth of 20.8 per cent this...
- Research articles 2002-03-04
- Lawmakers Push Bill to Monitor Fed Lending Programs
- The campaign to audit the Federal Reserve I wrote about in July has legs. Two lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would allow the Government Accountability Office to review the agency's programs for bailing out the financial industry. “During this financial crisis, Federal Reserve credit contributed...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- If the Content is Lousy, PR 2.0 Isn't Going to Fix It
- There are scores of self-serving, PR agency-written blogs out there today about the emergence of (*gag*) "PR 2.0" - pontificating on the power of blogging, tagging, podcasting, social networking and wikis for generating buzz and credibility. Very few give any sort of valuable context about when it actually makes...
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Nokia Takes Aim at Apple
- By Jack Ewing and Olga Kharif Nokia NOK has seemed determined recently to remind the world that it, not a certain Cupertino (Calif.) rival, is the world's dominant handset maker. In the space of four days, the Finnish company, which accounts for 37% of global mobile-phone sales, announced plans for...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Next Up for Nokia: Netbooks, Banking
- By Jack Ewing A visitor checks out Nokia's first notebook, the 'Booklet 3G' at the 'Nokia World 2009'. MICHAEL LATZ/AFP/Getty Images The conventional wisdom about Nokia is decidedly downbeat. Wall Street analysts say the Finnish handset maker is in for unimpressive profits as it loses share in the lucrative market...
- News items 2009-09-03
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