EMC, which sold some of its low-value storage to Dell and has been buying value-added analysis companies, is off 0.17%.

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EMC, which owns a majority stake in VMware, installed Microsoft veteran Maritz as chief executive, and also hired Pat Gelsinger, formerly of Intel, as the head of the value-added software (like security and database analysis) that EMC puts atop its core storage business.

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It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.

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Like the UC-Irvine iPod study before it, the ADBI analysis found that just a tiny fraction of the cost of producing the iPhone is Chinese value-added.

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