Sipuleucel-T, as the vaccine in question is known, is made by Dendreon, an American firm.
Its service is based on a technology called iBurst, developed by Arraycomm, an American firm.
Globe Wireless, an American firm, has long used short-wave for maritime e-mail service to thousands of ships.
They consistently cheer on UK tech companies and wince each time one sells out, usually to an American firm.
The mobile-based technology provided to Rwandan health workers by Voxiva, an American firm, should make users in rich countries jealous.
Ten years ago, United Automation, an American firm, was given the job of redesigning the sound system in Mecca's central mosque.
Takeda, another Japanese firm, also has a cholinesterase inhibitor on trial, as do Bayer, of Germany, and Forest Laboratories, an American firm.
But Edelman, an American firm, has come up with a clever idea.
Last week an American firm whose plans to build a toxic waste dump had been blocked used chapter 11 to win damages from Mexico.
As an alternative the Silicon On Insulator (SOI) consortium, which includes Globalfoundries, an American firm, and ARM, a British one, is trying to improve flat transistors.
Vitality, an American firm, has come up with a cap for pill bottles that telephones hapless patients if they fail to take their medicine on time.
Happily, Tanzania's gasfield extends south to Mozambique, where Italy's Eni last month unveiled a find of 1.3 billion boe, matching similar finds by an American firm, Andarko.
Seven months later Mr Dunlap took over at Sunbeam, an American firm that makes small appliances and other household products, and began to apply the same approach.
Text4Baby, an American campaign to send medical advice to pregnant mothers via text messages, was inspired by the work of Voxiva, an American firm, in Peru and Rwanda.
An American firm, 3D Systems, used one of its 3D printers to print a hammer for your correspondent, complete with a natty wood-effect handle and a metallised head.
AstraZeneca, a large British drug company, announced a collaborative project with Orchid BioSciences, an American firm, that will use the information on the human genome to produce tailor-made drugs .
When Siemens, for example, faces a thirty-per-cent drop in demand for its products, it is just as tempted as an American firm would be to lay off thirty per cent of its workers.
Peter Wilmshurst, a British cardiologist, is facing a lawsuit from an American firm, NMT Medical, over comments he made on an American website about a study into using heart implants to treat migraines.
Inmar, an American firm that processes discount coupons, says that redemptions in America were 17% higher in the first quarter of 2009 than in the same period last year, as consumers hunted for bargains.
The present generation of factory robots is akin to early mainframe computers in offices, reckons Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of iRobot, an American firm whose products include the Roomba, a robotic vacuum-cleaner, as well as military robots.
Dresdner is proud of its investment-banking business: arguments over the latter's future led to the scrapping of the deal with Deutsche, and since then it has bought Wasserstein Perella, an American firm, to bring in new expertise.
Clients can bypass the big names and hire consultancies such as Eden McCallum, a British firm that packages teams of experienced independent consultants, or Point B, an American firm that provides only a project manager, letting the client select the team.
One trick is to build plants just over the border in a more welcoming country: Sempra, an American firm, has built a regasification plant in Mexico, just across the border from California, where regulators have yet to approve such a facility.
Looked at through the lens of cross-border trade between an American firm suffering devaluationist policies and a foreign importer buying American goods with a rising currency, ultimately the importer is going to have to sell goods back to Americans in order to continue importing.
Molycorp, an American firm which in various guises dates back to the early 1950s, intends to restart what was once the world's largest source of rare earths, a mine in California closed in 2002 over environmental concerns and the then unjustifiable cost of correcting them.
AMD, an American semiconductor firm, in an effort to streamline its flash-memory business.
This week, though, it emerged that Seagate, an American technology firm, had chosen Malaysia over Thailand for a new plant.
An analysis by Verizon, an American telecoms firm, found that the biggest reason for successful security breaches was easily guessable passwords.
As a board member at both Citigroup, a big American bank, and Alcoa, an American aluminium firm, he is well connected.
In 2002 the Sarbanes-Oxley act limited what kind of non-audit services an American accounting firm can offer to an audit client.
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