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...last year, Motorola emerged as one of the largest shippers of smart phones. That's largely due to Droid, its newest offering for Verizon Wireless. Motorola has also made headway with Cliq, its T-Mobile phone, and early in March it launched BackFlip, the first Android phone for AT&T. About 40% of wireless customers now use smart phones, according to Web research firm Crowd Science, and that portion is growing rapidly. To complement Android, Motorola developed Motoblur, one of the first user interfaces to unite social-networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. "We fundamentally changed our focus...
Meanwhile, Brown's new spin-off will absorb Motorola's $3 billion in debt. But the split also means his charge will be able to keep the strong cash flow. "We will reinvest some of that money in expanded innovation, and we can consider ways to grow the firm organically or potentially through acquisitions," Brown says. "It will also be easier to attract world-class talent to a world-class firm rather than one in transition." Perhaps two heads will prove, after all, to be better than...
...Japan's Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding for Inbicon's biomass-refinery technology to convert waste products from palm oil into ethanol. "In our view, being on the edge of new green technologies is a great opportunity," says Eldrup. "It gives us an advantage in reducing CO[subscript 2], but it also gives us technological advantages as well as business opportunities. The U.S. has very high ambitions to increase its ethanol production, and we think this might be a great opportunity in years to come...
...registration, while there is no such fee imposed on electric autos, an attractive incentive for consumers. "If we are successful, that gives us a lot of learning and new development in new technology and businesses in Denmark," says Eldrup. He adds, "It also gives us value in exporting." (See the top 10 news stories...
...sentiment echoed by Aurubis' Drouven. His company also took a hit last year but reported first-quarter operating earnings were $64.6 million, up 50% from the whole previous fiscal year and 2½ times those of the first quarter of 2009. "Our investors want to receive good dividends," he explains. "But our investors are more interested in long-term, stable, reliable returns than in the fast buck...