In Aroma, Greenberg sees a chance to penetrate a business it has been completely missing.
Dell recognized that business IT spending was off but he decided double-down on business customers.
As Merrill and Goldman well know, in this business it's live by the market, die by the market.
One piece of Compaq whose role is still fuzzy is the 22, 000-employee services business it inherited from DEC.
Quadro, which is targeted at professional designers and modelers, is benefiting from the on-going business IT upgrade cycle.
Furthermore, Samsung is asking for damages based on the business it has lost due to the sales ban.
In this business it is healthy to be skeptical and to always question what is happening in the market.
But the last time this many rookies piled into the venture capital business it did not end entirely well.
It has managed to avoid the recent tainted-food scandals emerging from China, thanks to a separate laboratory business it owns, Sino Analytica.
And if it wants to have a big mobile business it should take a shot at making its own handset.
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Information technology (IT) followed with women representing 12 percent of business-to-business IT investors and 11 percent of consumer IT investors.
The research firm International Data Corp. says small business IT spending will be 60% of all IT spending within ten years.
Philip Morris, owner of Kraft, also plans to sell stock in the behemoth food business it is creating by acquiring Nabisco.
"It needs to focus more on growth sectors and take a larger stance on business it thinks have potential, " he says.
When Google wants your business it can try to take it by competing or simply cutting off your natural search oxygen.
Deutsche Bank's unit, Bank-24, for example, has lost much of the business it hoped to win to ConSors and its kind.
If a coal-focused utility wanted to stay in business it would have to buy sufficient credits to balance out its coal.
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"Even if it doesn't immediately affect our business it may affect the morale of the staff, " said Akrapovic sales manager Michel Neven.
In business it is often said that you manage what you measure.
It seems absurd to listen to EchoStar claim hardship from the prospect of losing business it never earned in the first place.
There was no guiding philosophy at the Houston, Texas, conglomerate, other than the conviction that any business it acquired could be fixed.
Much of the business it thus bought has entered the technological twilight.
Nokia Siemens is facing a tough public relations quandary: how to atone for the political sins of a business it no longer owns.
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And the campaign for control of Air Passenger Duty is already causing concern at the business it could draw north from Newcastle Airport.
The 166-year-old Philippine property, banking, telecommunications and industrial group has seen competition surge in virtually every major line of business it is in.
In any other business it would be a home run, but the twisted economics of dial-up access have left the New York City telecommunications giant disappointed.
All are critical to turning health care into the information business it must become if we are to bend the quality and cost curves.
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By buying the New York-based firm, Google is branching out into display advertising, a business it had previously ceded to such competitors as Yahoo!
Ms. CLARK-SHEARD: Even though sometimes in this business it is cutthroat, it's good to hear my daughter, as a teenager, just being so interested.
When a company monitors how its partners do business it can avoid costly damage to its brand from exposure of embarrassing or unlawful business practices.
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