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...corporate computer systems and services. IBM retained its market share in servers through this year's second quarter, while Compaq's share has eroded slightly, enabling IBM to pull to a tie in terms of global revenues, according to IDC. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano recently said the company would invest $10 billion to enable clients to purchase computing power "on demand," signaling to HP and other rivals that Big Blue is planning a war of attrition. With its $3.5 billion purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting earlier this year, IBM acquired 30,000 business consultants, as well as their clients in such...
...about redeploying home equity into stocks? Stick to low-cost, broad stock-market index funds, and to get over your understandable jitters, divide the pile into six equal parts to be invested over that many months. "We recommend that no one asset account for more than 25% of your total assets, including the total value of your house," says Gary Greenbaum, a financial planner in Old Tappan, N.J. Plenty of folks live in homes worth $800,000 that they bought for $400,000 less than 10 years ago. But their stocks have shriveled. As long as overall debt remains manageable...
...allowed to copy and produce medicinal drugs developed by other firms, insisting that without well-defended intellectual property rights, medications would not be developed at all. It is true that, if medical research were left to the free market without a patent system, companies would have no incentive to invest in researching and developing new drugs. After all, if they did develop the drugs and pay the high costs involved, other companies, which had not shouldered those research costs, could simply copy the new medicines and sell them at a fraction of the original price. To remedy this incentive problem...
HarvardWatch charges that the decision to invest in Harken stemmed from political ties between Stone, who is involved in the energy business, and the Bush family...
Meyer, who joined HMC in September 1990 but is familiar with the Harken investment, says that Bush had nothing to do with HMC’s decision to invest. That decision had already been determined before Bush ever came to Harken, Meyer said...