But we all rather cringe at his stream of off-colour jokes. (Our Nordic cousins look particularly pained.) And he will flash his money around.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Adobe makes money from Flash primarily by selling development tools and software like Flash Professional which allow developers to create Flash content.

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The company finally ditched its money-losing NOR flash memory business Monday, completing a deal with hedge-fund Francisco Partners to create a new company, Numonyx, out of chunks of both Intel and STMicroelectronics.

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During the period Masuoka was with Toshiba, the NAND flash memory business did not make big money.

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That flash point in September 2008 caused the U.S. Treasury to put a floor under money market funds, effectively guaranteeing assets held in money funds prior to the announcement.

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The Flash game development community should get a boost from Adsense for Games, but a few developers have already started making money.

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