For Apple, the move into smartphones was the next step in its shift to consumer-electronics juggernaut from maker of Macintosh computers.
The struggles of the consumer were apparent Friday in an earnings warning from motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson.
Worries over slowing demand for luxury goods were heightened by a profits warning last month from handbag maker Mulberry.
They symbolise Taiwan's transformation from a maker of cheap plastic toys 25 years ago to a manufacturer of leading technologies.
"Anyone who takes a leadership position is open to criticism, " he said, regarding his unusual move from policy maker to executive.
MP3, owners of the player could download, for a fee, a new decompression algorithm for their player from the maker's website.
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The recall follows another high-profile move from toy maker RC2 Corp.
The struggles of the consumer were apparent Friday in an earnings warning from motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson (nyse: HOG - news - people ).
But the regulators had received a similar analysis, from drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ), more than a year before.
Why use the services of a trading company like Jardine Matheson, the ultimate middleman, when the Net means you can buy direct and cheaper from the maker?
By chance Lewis also met a former engineer from videogame maker Atari, Bruce Rogers, who was developing a new graphics engine and was working on a game of his own.
Google says its Mini customers range from appliance maker Sub-Zero to the Nasdaq stock market, public-sector patrons such as the city of Bloomington, Ill. and the University of Oklahoma.
ProBugs, a yogurtlike beverage for kids, is tasty, fun and good for a child's digestive system, if claims from its maker, Lifeway Foods, near Chicago, are to be believed.
Technology stocks in the US and Europe took another battering on Thursday, this time prompted by a profits warning from computer maker Gateway and further evidence of a weakening US economy.
The Xbox One has an eight-core CPU and 8GB of RAM, but so does the PlayStation 4 and in fact both consoles are based on the same IP from chip maker AMD.
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So, we really would like to be able to check out the Clio NXT, the next-gen model being developed by Data Evolution, which bought the rights to the product from original maker Vadem.
Those strengths have helped it shrug off fears of a slowdown, triggered by lowered forecasts from chip maker Texas Instruments (nyse: TXN - news - people )--a major supplier--earlier this month.
To reflect his ambition to transform Apple from a computer maker into a consumer electronics company, Jobs announced a name change from Apple Computer Inc. to simply Apple Inc. in January 2007after introducing the iPhone.
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People can use CustomMade in two ways: by requesting a product from a particular maker, or by posting a photo and description and asking for bids from makers.
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Philip Armour, for instance, was a meat packer from Chicago, Andrew Carnegie, a Pittsburgh steel man and Maximillian Fleischmann, a yeast maker from Cincinnati.
New data from wireless infrastructure maker Ericsson shows that mobile data traffic jumped 130% in the first quarter of 2011 from 2010.
The Huddersfield site and natural spring were acquired in 2004 from lemonade-maker Ben Shaw's.
Turkey's national carrier Turkish Airlines is to buy 95 planes from US aircraft maker Boeing.
Glaxo was defending its Paxil, an antidepressant, against a challenge from generic drug maker Apotex .
He has used the same strategy with top-quality potato chips from a local maker.
The latest bit of bad news from the phone maker is that BlackBery 10 has been delayed.
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Rival Actos, from Japanese drug maker Takeda, does not seem to cause heart attacks and may prevent them.
Yoshinori Ono from Japanese game maker Capcom addresses the audience in Japanese, with a translator offering the remarks in English.
Shares fell in the first trading day after Delphi's announcement, pushed partly by a gloomy announcement from another parts maker.
Coatue, which has been working on conductive organic polymers for memory chips, has had major support from Sunnyvale microprocessor maker AMD.
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