Word: spin-off
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the lack of a canine breakthrough, dog owners are the biggest clients of Genetic Savings & Clone, a commercial spin-off of Missyplicity that offers to freeze pet DNA for future cloning for $895 plus $100 annual storage. A white canister--which looks like an Artoo Detoo unit--is already full of hundreds of trays containing genetic material from cats and dogs, with a few prized horses and cattle nestled in the whirling eddies of subzero liquid nitrogen...
...hedgehog without feeling entirely ridiculous is doing something right. It's just this understanding of the connection between people and animals that has made Emergency Vets and the rest of the addictive fare on Animal Planet into a cable success story. In just over four years, the network, a spin-off of the Discovery Channel, has become available in 66 million homes; it's opening a stage show at Universal Studios this spring and sells a line of toys; and, analyst Derek Baine of Paul Kagan Associates estimates, it had revenue of more than $100 million last year...
Some of the Web-inspired magazines feel like the afterthoughts they are. Space Illustrated, for example, a spin-off of the website started in July 1999 by former Moneyline anchor Lou Dobbs, is a spotty collage of Hubble-telescope photos and itty-bitty stories about meteor showers and upcoming shuttle launches. The glossy Expedia Travels is more substantial but thoroughly conventional, despite gestures toward matters digital. In a story on Hawaii, the writer plans his trip online, but otherwise the journey is a standard odyssey of surf and sand. Travelocity, whose format is broken up into zippy information-age chunks...
...least Mr. Sorkin should keep them in mind when he starts thinking spin-off. Chances are, a couple potential consulting producers will be retiring as soon as we sort out the next president. And I'll bet NBC pays a good bit better than the federal government...
...study, James Miles and J. Randall Woolridge, finance professors at Penn State, found that on average, management spends more to improve its business after it's been spun off than it did when it was part of a larger entity. They also found that spin-off companies have a better than average chance of being taken over. By their calculations, spin-offs outperform a peer group by 30 percentage points over three years, parent companies by 19 points...