With a flat bond yield curve and oil quots moving lower, the oils are in for a tough year.

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On their part Indian companies are gingerly moving up the innovation curve and want to share the risks.

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While Apple is well known for not disclosing what it is going to do this does seem to put to rest the company moving down the price point curve and not coming out with a lower quality, less feature rich smartphone.

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Mr. Ullman feels that the Internet is a great opportunity for the company to strengthen the sales curve and will no doubt put significant emphasis on getting an omnichannel strategy moving forward.

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The good news is that Illumina has been very aggressive about moving into new technologies and has stayed ahead of the curve.

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