British company Absolute Studios has created an electronic Toyland and computerised versions of Enid Blyton's characters, which have been loved by children for decades.
All this is plausible, but some analysts argue that the absolute size of a company's research budget matters less than how and where it is deployed.
"The company has an absolute obligation to tell about the risks, " says New York lawyer Robert Sullivan, who has signed up more than 100 Vioxx cases against Merck.
Article 20 gives every EU resident has an absolute right to stop a company from using predictive analytics concerning employment, creditworthiness, or health decisions. (These examples come straight from the text of the new regulations.) This sounds like a good deal for data subjects until one thinks for a moment about who the local losers would be.
The company insists on the absolute calm and stability of its factory in Seifhennersdorf, near the Czech Republic.
In the current environment, however, Apple is showing few signs of slowing down and could very easily make a run at becoming the most valuable company in history in both absolute and inflation-adjusted terms.
This morning in New York, new AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot is telling investors how he is going to turn around the company that has had the absolute worst track record in research and development among any big pharmaceutical firm.
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The company could be attempting to shore up its absolute profit numbers with higher sales.
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Indexed options balance a company's relative stock market performance against its absolute gains.
The company sees this as the area of "strongest absolute growth, " in terms of information technology spending by corporations, said Tom Yeates, Digital's business development manager for OpenVMS in Europe.
In 2005, Stewart Johnson, a portfolio manager at an insurance company in New York, and his wife were at their "absolute limit" with their then 14-year-old autistic son.
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It was a week before the Amazon deal was announced, to general shock within the company, where Hsieh, whose mother is a clinical psychologist, has promoted a culture of absolute transparency (Core Value No. 6: Build Open and Honest Relationships with Communication).
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