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...bringing an IT-services firm in-house a tech company also answers customer demand for one-stop shopping - tech companies that will not only sell products but can also streamline the customers' business processes and manage their tech systems. "A lot of organizations want to go to one vendor to get everything, so if something breaks there's one [firm to call]," says Troy Jensen, a managing director at Piper Jaffray...
...Some technology companies are also doing deals to diversify into adjacent businesses to gain market share. Adobe's acquisition of Omniture will expand Adobe into Web analytics, where demand has been growing for programs that monitor website traffic and improve online advertising. Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems expands the software company into the computer hardware market and Cisco's recent $3 billion bid for Tandberg will boost the company's presence in the growing videoconferencing market...
...deliver justice on one side and not the other, you leave a group of people angry and resentful, and they don't forget," renowned Rwanda investigator Alison des Forges told TIME last year, weeks before she died in a plane crash. Des Forges was insistent in her demand that members of the RPF face justice, but with her voice silenced and the tribunal winding down, her wish probably won't be realized...
...Volkswagen is converting part of a car-engine plant to produce "green" electrical generators. And if you buy into the great Asian growth story, then there is a chance that spending by wealthier consumers in countries like China and India can offset at least some of the decreased demand in the West. HSBC economist Frederic Neumann said in a September report that some Asian manufacturers have gained back the power to raise prices, implying that the impact of excess capacity in the region might not be as severe as some fear. "What was so scary about the recession were...
...Others are not so sanguine. HSBC's China economist, Qu Hongbin, worries that his country is full of manufacturers trying to hang on while waiting for overseas demand to recover. "There still is hope that we'll go back to the old days," Qu says. But "demand in the future will be lower than in the past," he says. "That means the factory owners have to face reality" - the reality of them no longer cranking out ever more widgets in a widget-weary world...