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Besides, there remained a more important campaign to be waged--over standards for the much more lucrative market in rerecordable discs for computers. Last September, Sony set off a controversy by declaring that it had formed a consortium with Philips, Hewlett-Packard and Ricoh to produce a new format for the rewritable disc. "It has become very difficult to work out an international standard for anything these days," sighs Ohga...
...points, unable to take comfort in the good news. In New York City, out-of-favor issues ranged from big airlines with Pacific routes, like American and United, to consumer-product companies like Coca-Cola. Semiconductor stocks took a beating, along with high-tech giants like IBM and Hewlett-Packard, which earns 16% of its revenues from the region...
...University of Michigan, "but he has a more appreciative attitude than many Chinese." He once told an American visitor that he regretted not earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but one of his sons did get his from Philadelphia's Drexel University and worked for Hewlett-Packard in California before returning to China...
...Davids, Pa., to raise money for lab equipment. Their chief need was for a mass spectrometer that, together with a gas chromatograph and a computer workstation, would provide the technical means to diagnose and record cases. Having read about Morton's work in the Wall Street Journal, Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard donated all three machines, and within three months the Mortons were screening Amish newborns...
...some analysts doubt that the effort will ever pay off. The devices (price range: $200 to $900) record images on microchips for computer users. But the field is already glutted with dozens of rivals, from traditional camera makers such as Canon and Nikon to Silicon Valley giants like Hewlett-Packard. Fisher counters that naysayers saw few profits in the 1980s in the business of cellular phones and pagers, which have grown into two of Motorola's most lucrative products. Says he of his record for confounding such doubters: "Been there. Done that...