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...differences between the various market barometers lead some market watchers to dispute the value of the Dow index altogether. The widely watched indicator consists of stocks of 30 major companies, including IBM, Eastman- Kodak and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing. "You can no longer tell what 35,000 stocks will do by watching just 30 stocks," says Wachtel. Philip Fernandez, an institutional analyst at Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, agrees: "The Dow is too exclusive and too narrow...
...youth. Of course, he warned, another mammoth company with only three letters was interested; that was NEC, the Nippon Electric Company. IBM eventually signed on. Ueberroth had wanted the American company, partly out of patriotic loyalty. But threatening to play the foreign card was no bluff. When Eastman Kodak complained bitterly that no photo company would pay $4 million for a sponsorship, Ueberroth unhesitatingly switched to Japan's Fuji Photo...
Last October, Eastman Kodak introduced still another format: an 8-mm video camcorder whose 30-, 60-or 90-minute videotapes are roughly the same size as a standard audio cassette. The 8-mm format is as light as other camcorders, is easy to use and can be attached to a tuner to record television programs. Kodak is clearly banking on acceptance of its format as a third home-video alternative...
...marketeers seem to have guessed right in determining what would sell. Fisher-Price, the toymaking subsidiary of Quaker Oats, teamed up with Kodak to produce a new child's camera that sells for $25 to $44. In its viewfinder is an indicator that shows a red flag if the child is holding the camera crooked. Fisher-Price has long made a play camera, but the one this year was its first foray into the real thing, and it is selling well...
...launching Wired Radio, Inc., a kind of competitor to the booming fad for wireless radio. But not until 1934, the year of his death, did the general think up a catchy new name, combining the sound of music with the sound of the popular camera called the Kodak...