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...hardware industry just the way Microsoft is for investors betting against software. The shares in largest maker of chips in the world rises and falls on sales information about PCs and servers. Its expansion into less expensive and less powerful chips for netbooks and other portable devices may drive significant revenue growth once the economy begins to recover. Shares sold short in Intel as of April 15 were over 80 million, down 15%. Intel's positive remarks about sales in the PC market in its most recent earnings release may have driven some short sellers out of their positions. Intel...
...biggest winners here, for instance, is Adobe, whose Air engine (it's free and runs on any PC, Macintosh or Linux computer) will drive many, if not most, of the new Facebook applications. Air creates, in geek parlance, a "run time" - think of it as a universal mini-operating system across all computers. Developers, writing in Flash, can build an application once, and it runs on any computer. About 100 million people have installed it to date. Its most popular application? Tiny programs that make Twitter easier to use than its lean website interface. (See, for instance, Tweetdeck...
...scoring started in the top of the first, knocking an RBI double down the right field line, and the Big Green strung together a few more hits in the inning to take a 3-0 lead.Santomauro got his second RBI of the day in the second, crushing a line drive to left, and Dartmouth was up 5-0 after just two innings.The Crimson pulled a few runs back in the third via a two-run error and an RBI single from Stack-Babich. The senior went 3-for-4 in the game and was Harvard’s main offensive...
...drive to diversify doesn't only flow from the end of the global settlement. The independent research industry is influenced by plenty of other forces, too, especially a constant onslaught of new competition. "There are low barriers to entry, and with a lot of people on Wall Street out of work, it's pretty easy for an analyst to say, let me try my hand at that," says Mark Fichtel, a former president of the New York Mercantile Exchange and one of the Securities and Exchange Commission consultants who picked which independent research shops to use in the settlement...
...India, with its population of 1 billion, is holding up. In March, China imported a record amount of iron ore and coal, while imports of crude oil hit a 12-month high. The binge is being fueled in part by optimism that Beijing's $565 billion stimulus program will drive a turnaround in the sagging economy. "After a brief pause, China's appetite for natural resources has returned to buoyant levels," Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong, wrote in a report this month...