Word: 3m
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what did you expect this week - optimism? Wall Street came back from an idyllic East Coast summer weekend with Friday's clouds in tow, using - gasp! - lackluster earnings news from 3M and Lexmark Technologies to sell the Dow off 100 and the NASDAQ off 25 by noon. (Disney presumably did not help matters by announcing that will buy Fox Family for $3 billion - and keep the 700 Club...
...auto engineer Alec Issigonis sketched a rough design on a restaurant tablecloth of a car destined to become a British motoring icon. That doodle was the prototype for the Mini, the 3m-long, 1.2m-wide engineering feat that became - along with the Volkswagen Beetle and Citröen's 2CV - one of those small cars that inspire both devotion and ridicule. After its 1959 launch, the Mini went on to sell more than 5 million cars over the next four decades, until it became clear the car could not meet stiffened European safety regulations...
...observers agree that a large part of the company's success stems from the strength of the leadership beneath Welch. While GE had a strong field of seven managers to choose from in its search for Welch's successor, other businesses such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and 3M have had to turn outward in their searches...
...Indeed, many have turned to GE. W. James McNerny Jr., one of GE's top three contenders for CEO, was snatched up by 3M when GE handed the torch to Jeffrey R. Immelt, former president and CEO of GE Medical Systems...
...other ideas? Contact Anoto. It expects independent developers to come up with hundreds of applications. Anoto is also working with penmakers like Mont Blanc to develop variants of the Chatpen, with papermakers like 3M (of Post-it fame) and Esselte, and with mobile network operators like Vodaphone. The initial Anoto-enabled pens, manufactured by Ericsson and Motorola, should be on the market this fall when the first network operator, the Swedish unit of Vodaphone, offers the service to subscribers. By that time, digital paper will be available in notepads, organizers and Post-it notes...