Analysts expect McAfee to boost sales 8% annually the next two years, double Intel's 4% growth rate.
Compared to those, Pepsi fared moderately, with just a 28% in-game boost and 8% in the week before.
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The study was conducted by a 13, 000 employee NASDAQ-listed Chinese firm over a nine month period and found within the performance boost was an 8.5 percent increase in the number of minutes worked per shift and a 3.5 percent increase in the performance they squeezed out per the minutes they worked.
The recovery owed much to the Japanese car industry, which registered a 24.8% boost by value from January last year.
He thinks the extra spending from Intel could boost 2011 EPS by 8 cents a share each this year for Novellus and KLA. He also sees noteworthy profit boosts for Varian Semiconductor (VSEA), Applied Materials (AMAT) and Lam Research (LRCX).
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It also would have rolled back a recently passed 8 percent spending boost in the budget for the remainder of the current fiscal year.
Acer also told reporters that it believed Windows 8 would only boost its fourth-quarter sales by 5%-to-10% because the software had been launched so late in the year.
Henrik Jansdorf took over the struggling unit in January 1999 and is trying to boost its returns to the 8-10% level that Mr Duch-Pedersen says would be acceptable.
Mara Goldstein, an analyst at CIBC World Markets, says the 8-cent boost from the Baxter sale was not unexpected but agrees that Wyeth faces some "quality of earnings" issues.
Over that span, the company has averaged growth of 17.8%, with the biggest boost coming in the first quarter of the last fiscal year when revenue rose 23.8% from the year earlier quarter.
By making the Kinect compatible with Windows 8, Microsoft will not only boost sales of the Kinect, but also provide consumers with yet another reason to buy Windows 8.
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Ultrabooks and arrival of Windows 8 could give a boost to PC sales later in the year.
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Should the covered call contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 8.85% boost of extra return to the investor, or 52.95% annualized, which we refer to as the YieldBoost.
He thinks those carriers together could boost annual iPhone sales by 7-8 million units.
Dell is pinning its hopes on new touchscreen products pegged to Windows 8's launch to boost the fortunes of its consumer products division.
On the other hand, an acceleration in the inflation rate to just 3.0% would be expected to boost the level of the index by 8.92% annually through 2019.
Meanwhile, the South Asian Preferential Tariff Agreement, which took effect Dec. 8, is expected to boost trade and help hold down prices in products made in the subcontinent.
While this secular bet will not be settled for some time, MSFT should get a cyclical boost late this year with the Windows 8 launch, expansion into the ARM- and Intel-based tablet markets, Office and Server product line refreshes, and a potential macro recovery and cyclical rebound in PCs.
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The really difficult part will be to boost growth from 5% to 7-8% a year.
Rachel Coffey followed with another 3, Tyson-Thomas hit a foul-line jumper and Hall swished a 3 from the wing to boost the lead to 53-38 with 8:44 left.
Over that span, the company has averaged growth of 15.8%, with the biggest boost coming in the second quarter of the last fiscal year when revenue rose 18% from the year earlier quarter.
Over that span, the company has averaged growth of 14.8%, with the biggest boost coming in the third quarter of the last fiscal year when revenue rose 16% from the year earlier quarter.
The company said it added 15, 352 gross new employees in the quarter, or 8, 262 net adds, to boost the total to 141, 822.
What is being complained about here is that there is no such boost to PC sales from the release of Windows 8.
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The Met is currently trying to boost its proportion of ethnic minority officers to around 8% to reflect the make-up of the local community.
Hardware partners such as HP, Asus, Acer and Dell are also expected to make the best use of the holiday season to boost PC demand with their respective launches of Windows 8-powered ultrabooks, tablets and PCs.
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The company wants to boost net profit margins, which sunk to 4.8% over the latest 12-months.
Moving almost all production overseas--to Latin America and Asia--helped to boost operating (that is, Ebitda) margins from 8% three years ago to 14% now.
Increasing food prices helped boost restaurant and grocery-store sales by 0.8%.
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Things could change again: a big rash of strikes, even higher unemployment (already at a post-war record of 12.8%) or yet another scandal could boost the left.
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