Word: markets
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...Microsoft, especially Steve Ballmer who has been at the firm for 30 years, there is a certain amount of humiliation that goes along with no longer being the world's fastest growing global enterprise. But, Microsoft's fate was unavoidable once it started to have a 90% market share in a number of its core businesses. There are, essentially, no more worlds to conquer...
That's nothing like the quarter-to-half-point premium banks had gotten used to in the early 2000s, but it's still well down from 1.4 percentage points at the beginning of the year. Not to mention the 4.6-point gap it hit in the worst of the market freakout last fall...
...billion, allocated in 2008. Cummings will work with HMC’s head of external management, CEO, and real estate team to fill a “critical and strategic role” for the company “in light of the current global credit and real estate market environment,” according to a University statement. Jane L. Mendillo, President and CEO of HMC since last July, praised Cummings’ “depth of national and global experience,” “sharp eye for anticipating market trends...
...which wagons are going to make it and which aren't." In fact, that decision seems more and more apparent: Congress is unlikely to pass the linchpin of Obama's alternative-energy initiative - a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions to combat global warming and tilt the market toward energy independence but that would also raise energy prices in the midst of a recession...
...their current mobiles for a range of things, even without broadband Internet connections, which are still in short supply in Iraq. "In our case that's using Twitter through SMS [text-messaging]," Dorsey added. "What we've found in Iraq is that we have 85% penetration of the mobile market here." (Should the founders of Twitter be among the most influential people in the world? Vote for the TIME...