Wall Street is worried that Congress will impose new regulations along Glass-Steagall lines to stop underwriting firms selling research.
Never mind that when she made the call she had just left her former employer, formed her own company, and was now selling research on municipal bonds.
They typically earned little or nothing from selling research.
But there are not many examples of a firm of any scale surviving for long by selling truly independent research.
Palm's EdColliganEd Colligan, meanwhile, must convince investors and analysts that his company can revive and redesign its line of smart phones in the face of Apple's slick iPhone and the top-selling BlackBerry from Research in Motion.
There are also plenty of other ways to develop a company's scientific and selling skills: research agreements, licensing arrangements and marketing alliances between drug companies, biotechnology firms and other bodies are all less traumatic than forcing two different corporate cultures into one bed.
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The items are among a dozen artifacts Crick's heirs are selling to benefit scientific research.
So far, his company has been selling tools for marketing research and kits to help disabled people to operate speech programs and computers with their eyes only.
Drug firms like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis have yet to realize a new generation of big-selling medicines based on gene research.
Rather than sell service to marketers as a customer giveaway, NetZero peddles its own brand, aiming to offset the cost by selling advertising and targeted marketing research.
As drug makers struggle to rebound from patent losses on many of their big-selling medicines, can contract research organizations expect to experience some collective growth this year?
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Drug firms like Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSK - news - people ) and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) have yet to realize a new generation of big-selling medicines based on gene research.
His research wasn't selling for Nancy Rodriguez, a professor at the University of Connecticut.
In recent months, hedge fund critics have raised the issues of aggressive short-selling, hedge fund collusion with research analysts to manipulate a stock to their benefit, and short-sellers who skirt rules on stock settlement and clearing to make profits.
The company utilizes engineer-to-engineer selling model, which is a fairly research and development intensive process, according to Crichton.
They, are finding a greater value in selling trade secrets, marketing plans, research and development findings and even source code, McAfee says.
Most of Dell's expenses are made up of selling, general and administrative costs rather than research and development.
"The smart money is on buying gold" rather than selling, said Mark O'Byrne, research director at gold dealer GoldCore in Dublin.
"It's not as bad as when there were a hundred different companies selling Unix, " said Bill Claybrook, research director at the Aberdeen Group, in Boston.
After a series of trials, they found one and the town of El Diviso, Colombia, where the research took place, has been selling seeds of this variety to neighbouring towns ever since.
Researchers at George Mason University have detected a pattern of abnormally high short-selling in the three days immediately before a research downgrade is made public--four times the normal level of trading--and the trading isn't linked to earnings or other news.
As for that UBS tipping case, 12 of the defendants have settled or pleaded guilty, including Mitchel Guttenberg, the former institutional client manager of UBS's research department who was accused of selling upcoming downgrade tips to hedge fund clients in a scheme hatched with a friend at New York's Oyster Bar.
Byrne has filed suit against Gradient and Rocker Partners for colluding in a short-selling scheme based on what he claims was fraudulent research.
"While complaints about direct selling are falling, it is clear from this research that suppliers still have considerable scope to improve how they approach consumers, " Ofgem director of supply, Iain Osborne, said.
Research In Motion could be barred from selling its BlackBerry smartphones in the U.S. and other markets after a Swedish arbitrator issued an unfavorable ruling in a dispute the company has had with Nokia over royalty payments.
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The rising costs of journal subscriptions have led many scientists around the world to question the business models of the publishers, which can make profit margins of more than 35% through selling access to the results of publicly-funded research.
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Handling such chores has been a strong suit for Research in Motion's BlackBerry and rivals selling devices based on Windows Mobile.
"Clearly some research into climate is important for a company selling underfloor heating, " says Jack Glendinning, Managing Director of Warmup.
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Although the research concluded that complaints of energy mis-selling were on the wane, 25% of consumers who signed as a result of the contact went on to cancel the contract.
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