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...constant volatility. "Businesses make a lot of strategic decisions that involve uncertainties this software can track," says Simon Williams, ceo of SmithBayes. The software's potential corporate uses are wide ranging. Companies can use it to measure the risks and rewards of moving into new markets, bringing out new products, or making capital investments. Myriad data and assumptions can be plugged in: possible new technologies, changes in government regulations, what rivals may do. The one constant most businesses can count on is churn. "If you know something to be true, it's already history," Williams says. A recent McKinsey & Company...
...repel the Redmond threat--not to mention Yahoo!, yapping at its heels--Google has executed a rash of acquisitions and product launches tied to its powerful website. From spreadsheet software to online word processing and a digital payment service, the company seems to offer new stuff every day. Free, for the most part, the offerings are dumped onto Google's "more" or "labs" page, in seemingly random order. Mayer wants to streamline that process, helping return Google to its roots in simplicity. "Users aren't going to remember our 50-plus products. They'll remember three to five. We need...
...consolation, and it probably isn't, Google is not unlike Microsoft at this stage in its corporate life. In 1983, when Microsoft turned 8, it was basically a one-product company with lots of growing pains. The next two products worked out. They were called Word and Windows...
...with any medication, read the label to make sure you know what you're getting--even if you have used a particular product before. Manufacturers of many familiar nonprescription brands have quietly switched to phenylephrine so that their packages can stay on drugstore shelves. Allergies may be hard to avoid, but if you do your homework and follow the rules, you can still get the relief you need...
...They talked to us about product placement for Jackass and we said no, it didn't seem like a good idea. Then they said they would give us free beer if we featured Miller, so we agreed. Now they send us cases of beer to every city we go to, so that was a good deal. It's delicious...