Some of the battles are easy to predict: domestic businesses v. multinationals, manufacturers v. service firms, business whose value-added is in their intellectual property v. those who deal in commodity products.

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V-blogs, cheap technology ably performing business chores and a new golden era for startups--rich rewards await the entrepreneurs who knit these trends together.

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MTV's Asian revenues doubled and its audience grew five-fold, while Channel V's business was flat.

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As we have proven in Japan, we have achieved a v-shaped earnings recovery in the acquired mobile business and grown dramatically by introducing differentiated products to an incumbent-led market.

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V. the business predictability rank of 3.5-star.

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Despite this economic outlook, the stock markets in the last three months have agreed with the unstated assumptions in the whispers of "green shoots" - that growth is a prerogative of the modern era, that rebounds are always V-shaped and that central banks and politicians have abolished the business cycle that has plagued economic life since ancient times.

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Unless you are a business user you can safely ignore the BitLocker and Hyper-V stuff.

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His stint lasted for a year and a half, until his cousin engineered a sale of the company to Vivendi Universal (nyse: V - news - people ), a former water company that bought its way into the record and film business.

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