Last month analysts at Citigroup proposed that it ought to spin off three big assets: NBC Universal, its media unit; its consumer-finance arm; and its property business.

上个月花旗集团的分析师建议应将通用电器分拆为三大产业：媒体部分——NBC环球公司、消费信贷部分和房地产业务。

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The bank was hurt by provisions for loan impairment charges mostly arising from its business in the Middle East and its consumer-lending unit in America, which is being scaled down.

汇丰主要是受拖于中东和美国的消费贷款业务的贷款损失计提，这部分业务的规模已经逐步缩小。

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The consumer-products unit will be led by Choi Gee-sung, who has been president of the company's cellphone operation for the last two years and led the TV and video business before that.

消费产品分部将由崔志成(Choi Gee-sung)领导。 崔志成在过去两年中担任三星电子手机业务部总裁，之前负责电视和视频设备业务。

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"We're redefining what cost-conscious Kenyans can expect from a smartphone, " said Peter Arina, general manager, Safaricom' s Consumer Business Unit.

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The media-modeling tool was kicked into high gear two years ago when Chad Jacoby, senior manager of Nissan's Business Intelligence Unit, used years of Nissan's consumer research to build a computer model comparing the relationship of each phase of their "purchase funnel"--from awareness to purchase consideration to a transaction--to the phase before it.

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"Open source has become an engine for innovation in the smart phone and consumer electronics market, " said Teppo Hemia, vice president, 3G Multimedia Platforms Business Unit of ST-Ericsson.

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