On the plus side, Apple has its reputation as a supplier of cool technology and design, selling more than 100 million iPads since the tablet made its debut in 2010.
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Another problem: a lawsuit claiming it stole the design for the hot-selling Two-Ball Putter. (Callaway says it bought the design fair and square from another party.) And even the luster of celebrity endorsers, including top golfer Annika Sorenstam , are little help against new rival Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ), whose high-tech products and spokeschampion Tiger Woods are luring customers.
By 1980 he had already made his first million selling a design for an electronic translator to Sharp Corp.
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The local origins also helped convince retailer Design Within Reach to begin selling the duo's sophisticated yet highly tactile ash and walnut Tractor Stools a year and a half ago.
Micron had developed the same kind of design image sensors that OmniVision was selling, and the product was higher quality than OmniVision's.
Ms. Appleton and Mr. Clem teamed up to create Kinder Modern, which made a strong showing earlier this month at New York's new design fair Collective.1, selling several pieces, including a pair of miniature Thonet bentwood chairs from the '60s, on opening night.
And while Intel said it will start selling a new processor design, dubbed Nehalem, in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD countered that it will shrink the size of the transistors on its existing server chips by the fourth quarter to match Intel's.
But the company is developing new businesses selling to creative professionals for web design and technology for mobile devices, like e-readers, which require crisp fonts.
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Cross, however, believes Dell needs to shift its focus to research and development and design, rather cranking out custom-built computers and selling them directly.
With more than 60 years of design and manufacturing experience, AOC has earned a reputation for selling user-friendly, technologically advanced monitors, TVs and multi-functional displays.
We included in the prospective winners the top-five selling luxury cars, since their sell-rates by design are lower than those of economy sedans but they often receive extremely high satisfaction and CR scores.
PCs have about a 14 month design cycle, driven by the influences of tooling lead times and retail selling cycles (human behavior patterns).
Apple presented its case first and called its last witness earlier this week, arguing that Samsung has infringed on both design and utility patents that cover the look and feel of its best-selling products and how they work.
And the setup let each side avoid accountability: If a new printer flopped, was it because of bad design in the printer division--or because CSG had done a poor job in selling it?
Meanwhile Rolls-Royce has sought to insulate itself from the quirks of procurement by applying its design to other industries: 80% of the gas-turbine technology used in its best-selling jet engines is the same for the energy and marine sectors.
An unfavorable ruling could include monetary damages or an injunction prohibiting Intel from manufacturing or selling one or more products, precluding particular business practices, impacting Intel's ability to design its products, or requiring other remedies such as compulsory licensing of intellectual property.
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However, the reactor that is selling the best, at least in the U.S., isn't a GE design.
But instead of holding a monopoly over his design and licensing it to phone makers, Rossman now faces dozens of rivals as he builds a new business selling server software and applications under the WAP standard.
Parisian boutique galleries function as both exhibitors and production studios, showcasing top designers as well as producing and selling their work in limited editions -- and hotels and restaurants are capitalising on this new talent to design their environments.
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