Despite its staggering army of users, the company still has a revenue problem.
Now, a tiny, privately held company says it has a solution to the problem: Put a sock on it.
Often I view an acquisition as a shortcut or a quick fix to some problem that a company has.
Recalling another few hundred thousand cars may seem to be only a moderate additional problem for a company that has already shocked customers with the recall of more than 8m vehicles worldwide.
Rather than issue a patch, the company has posted a support document that describes the problem and tells people when they can next use the Do Not Disturb features.
You're not going to get a growth company at a discount unless it has some problem.
The company has virtually no debt and has no problem paying its bills with a current ratio of 7.6.
Every life company has a study group working on the problem.
That may prove a lasting problem: being a Skolkovo resident does not mean that a company has to base its operations in the city, even after it is built.
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The fact that he had an eating disorder (what do you take for that? cake? pies and chips?) he could not control suddenly should become the problem of a company that has its own vision of its brand, has no one to report to but its shareholders, and generally does not need his business.
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Even before the Baycol fiasco, the company had a big problem: its drug pipeline has been anemic at best.
Brown has been battling a perception problem about his company since he returned in February as chief executive.
Buying Guidant fixes that problem, because the company has traditionally been a big player in the market for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD).
The Skype forums are a hive of panic and abuzz with accusations that either the company is bundling crapware with its VoIP app or has a serious security problem.
The company is heavily male, but it has never regarded this as a problem because it is privately-owned and women are not a top priority with the founders, who still hold the majority of stock.
Rebecca Jeschke of the digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Google's recognition of the problem is encouraging, but that the company has a long way to go in deflecting future privacy concerns.
Although the company has recently modified its trending topics algorithm, spam is still a major problem one that happens to be adversely affecting its World Cup tracking site.
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"The Web has dramatically increased the counterfeiting problem, and we as a company can't handle it alone, " he says.
Gerard Ruizendaal, head of corporate strategy at Philips, says the company has learnt that whenever it creates a new organisation, it creates a new problem.
Well, there is a software company that has solutions to combat this after-the-fact data problem: TIBCO (Nasdaq:TIBX).
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But Mr Putin's casually thuggish comment, and the fuss that the deal has caused, point to an underlying problem for businesspeople: should a responsible company climb into bed with a dodgy one?
Solving that problem was one small step for a tiny company called NanoRacks, which has carved out an unusual niche (and a monopoly, for now) adapting lab gear to the U.S. National Lab on the ISS. Since 2010 it has designed and built all 36 of the modular labs there.
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While the company has seen some generic slowing in Canada, she said much of the problem has been in the luxury condo market, while the company sells condos at a lower price point.
But in a Sept. 21, 2010 blog post, Google lawyer Michael Zwibelman wrote that the company has struggled with the problem of online pharmacies for years.
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