Though its career as a hit-maker dried up shortly after its 1986 debut, Crowded House continued to churn out glorious power-pop singles through the early '90s, following the Top 10 gems "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong" with a sturdy string of tracks that deftly balance briskness and melancholy.
Apparel and luxury-goods maker, Coach, has moved-up strongly following a great quarter where powerful sales growth across its markets enabled the company to blow past earnings and revenue expectations.
And with his experience taking semiconductor maker Centillium from start-up to its 2000 IPO in three years.
Seminal trip-hop group Massive Attack have teamed up with film-maker Adam Curtis to create a live show for the Manchester International Festival.
Aluminum-maker Alcoa has been up and down in the market since it reported its quarterly earnings after the bell Monday.
The huge success of disk-drive maker EMC covers up a rude fact.
Judging by its botched hook-up with Suzuki, a mid-sized Japanese maker, VW is not much good at romance.
ECONOMIST: Germany��s biggest carmaker is leaving rivals in the dust
Cellphone maker Motorola is among the start-up's earliest backers and is the world's second-largest buyer of Li-ion batteries.
Yes, solar-panel-maker Solyndra recently went belly up, leaving 1, 100 people out of work and the federal government with a half-billion-dollar liability.
FORBES: Most Green Energy Projects Are Thinly Veiled Exercises In Crony Capitalism
In Tokyo, shares of Elpida Memory Inc. rallied 6.6% after the Yomiuri Shimbun said the chip maker would seek a capital tie-up with U.S. firm Micron Technology Inc.
Hac:Man's success with a giant Etch-a-Sketch at a Maker Faire in 2011 got the group thinking about a follow-up, said Mr Lang.
The biotechnology-tools maker licensed an app called Roambi from San Diego-based start-up MeLLmo Inc.
As much as Pfizer helped lift stocks, fellow Dow component Caterpillar was weighing on the market, after the construction equipment maker's fourth-quarter results came up short of estimates.
For example, it is unlikely that a start-up will succeed in taking on Wal-Mart (WMT) directly in the retailing business with an everyday low price strategy nor will a start-up office operating system maker make much headway against Microsoft (MSFT).
FORBES: HBS's Howard Stevenson: What Big Companies Can Learn from Start-ups
In its current state, even a speculated tie-up with Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE wouldn't vault Motorola back into No. 2.
In pre-market trading, the iPhone maker is up less than one percent.
FORBES: iPhone 5 Sets Chinese Record, Sells Two Million Units
Furthermore, the No. 3 PC maker warned that full-year revenue may come up short due to a weak economy and flooding in Thailand, which is a major producer of hard disk drives.
FORBES: Dell 3Q Revenue Falls Short; Thailand Floods, Economy May Impact Sales
Stratasys (SSYS) is another maker of 3-D printers and its revenue was up 28% in the fourth quarter.
FORBES: IPOs: Bazaarvoice Loses Money; Proto Lab Faces Competition
The preparation for the journeys is being recorded in a feature-length documentary by an Irish-Ugandan film-maker, Emile Dineen, who helped set up the Breakdance Project.
Jason Lemkin is VP of Web services business at Adobe (ADBE) and in a December 2nd interview, he explained that his start-up EchoSign was acquired by the maker of Flash in July 2011.
Australian century-maker North, who finished unbeaten on 125, says he is confident they can go 1-0 up in the series on Sunday.
Chocolate-maker Nestle and syrupy soda Sierra Mist also shot up the index after announcing new health initiatives.
FORBES: Healthy Fast Food? Women Are Buzzing About McDonald's
The Swiss bank also likes Peugeot which could be snapped up by Fiat and German truck-maker MAN which could be devoured by Scania or Volkswagen.
But everything isn't coming up roses for the Band-Aid maker.
Earlier this week the streaming hi-fi hardware maker Sonos announced that it was opening up its API (Application Programming Interface) so that music services could build apps - and those already include Spotify.
Astra International, Indonesia's largest car maker, predicts its end-of-year sales will be up 150% over last year.
It may seem surprising, but Cummins has been early to embrace the green movement, building itself up to become the biggest maker of natural gas-powered engines in the world.
Even Samsung, the world's largest TV maker, admits that 3-D TV hasn't lived up to the hype, and the company is now exalting web-connected smart TVs as its next big source of growth.
The digital note-taking application has teamed up with the analog sketchbook maker to produce the Evernote Smart Notebook.
ENGADGET: The Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine: paper sketchbooks and journals get connected
As for sister digital station BBC 6 Music, comedian Kathy Burke and film-maker and actor Harry Shearer will curate shows in the run up to Red Nose Day.
应用推荐