Intended for a core audience of young girls, this cartoon series and toy line (or, if you are makers Hasbro, toy line and attendant cartoon series) has acquired a significant and phenomenally creative periphery audience of young men and women (mostly men) who have expressed their devotion through art, fiction, music and video game mods, among other media.
In early April, Beijing asked noodle makers to hold the line on prices.
With computer makers, old-line camera companies, and electronics giants all jumping into a fresh field, there is an unusual variety of interpretations of what a digital camera should do and look like.
Patent dispute experts said that other handset makers may now fall in line.
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Thermo has been gaining market share because its broad line of products allows pharmaceutical makers, university research labs, health care providers and other science clients it serves to consolidate their purchases.
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Apple, for example, has also frustrated hard-disk drive makers by featuring solid state drives across its line of notebook computers and eliminating spinning disks in the MacBook Air, its thinnest, lightest model.
The Motorola lawsuits come as the line between computer manufacturers and mobile-device makers blurs, with new entrants such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard Co. making bigger moves in the mobile sector, while traditional handset makers such as Samsung Electronics Co. enter the tablet market.
Many analysts expect the two drug makers to eventually try to replace medicines like Glucovance as first-line treatments against diabetes.
But this time round the public, opinion-makers, members of parliament are better informed and they will not just line up behind another Brussels rescue package.
The line between the two worlds of do-gooders and money-makers is blurring and companies are finding ways to make both goals definable and attainable.
Many battery makers have had to scramble to seek customers outside of the car market or line up investors who have the financial power to keep the battery companies going.
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Seagate kicked TI out of its line, and Marvell later chased NEC and Infineon out of other disk drive makers.
Hyundai Motor includes the makers of Hyundai and Kia automobiles, parts vendors, logistics firms, the steel company and a shipping line.
In the land of lifetime employment (at least for many workers in big companies), Mr Ghosn shocked Japan by announcing the closure of five factories employing over 16, 000 people in Japan alone, cutting capacity by 30% to bring it more into line with sales and boosting utilisation rates to around the 75-80% rates at which car makers begin to make money.
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