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...family PCs. Plus, the isps argue, networking makes bottom-line sense for many families. "If you're trying to convince someone to buy a high-speed line for $50 or $60 a month, the idea of sharing that line makes that cost more palatable," says Kathie Hackler, an analyst for Gartner Dataquest...
Automakers have also learned that a convertible need not handle like a Porsche to turn a profit. Consider Toyota's Solara convertible, based on an aging Camry platform. Says analyst Michael Bruynesteyn of Prudential Securities: "It's basically a chop," meaning that Toyota grafted a soft top onto the Solara with minimal changes to the rest of the car. Toyota sold 7,600 units when it introduced the vehicle in 2000, charging about $5,000 more than for the comparable hardtop. The convertible shares a platform with seven other vehicles, so if interest in the ragtop wanes, the automaker...
...once you get past the bluster. Did he really memorize every closing price on the New York exchange? Cramer offers the best accounts I've read of how pros pay huge trading commissions to brokerage firms in return for the first call on stock-moving events like an analyst downgrade. New sec rules don't stop that or other ploys. And, it seems, nothing stops Cramer...
...most recognizable in women's dress, but in person he's closer to the Singaporean everyman persona. Dressed in a tan golf shirt and black khakis, he could be a systems analyst on his tea break; only his designer Dolce & Gabbana glasses hint that, unlike much of his core audience, he doesn't go home to a housing block at night. There's little evident ego, and when Neo finds out his interviewer has seen I Not Stupid, he begins firing questions: Was it good? Too local? In the next room, a television is showing the Academy Awards broadcast...
...invest in new processes and research. The company refined its semiconductor and liquid-crystal-display operations so effectively that traditional competition from Tokyo was upended. "Samsung is more cost effective, and its manufacturing technology is better than at companies like Sharp and Hitachi," says Shiro Mikoshiba, a Nomura Securities analyst in Tokyo. "The Japanese stopped competing two years...