If you look at companies like NetGear and 2Wire, they were much more packaging and supply chain management and branding type of companies.

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Consumerism has brought with it plastic packaging and new problems of waste management.

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"It's not until you sit in a room and watch the show that you know whether it works or not, " says Scott Arnovitz , senior vice president of TV packaging at talent agency International Creative Management.

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He adds that purely as a resource management issue, it makes sense for the company to reuse its packaging materials.

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The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.

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