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Sunday, August 24, 2008 4:42 PM

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INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES IBM, infotech giant: 1. It is focusing on forming partnerships to take its speech recognition and translation technologies to market, while spreading the risk, and improving ability to address the relatively small niche markets...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:42 AM

Pick of the Week 12

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Food companies, faced with limits on junk food ads on TV because of the worry that bombarding kids with ads for non-nutritious foods fuels the obesity epidemic: 1. They now market junk food to kids via the Web partly because...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:52 PM

Pick of the Week 11

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Ford Motor, U.S. Carmaker: 1. It has nearly caught up with Toyota Motor in quality. 2. It hired Toyota's marketing head in the U.S. 3. It sought the most forward-thinking and creative talent and put together a team of 20...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:08 PM

Pick of the Week 10

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Dell, computer maker: 1. It is looking for new ways to expand beyond selling commodity PCs, notebooks, and servers. 2. It has changed its offering to customers from products with features to customized computing solutions. 3...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:06 AM

Pick of the Week 9

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Independent coffee shops in the U.S. competing with Starbucks are taking approaches that Starbucks hasn't: 1. Some are serving coffee differently from Starbucks. [Lakota Coffee Co. in Missouri serves a latte in a signature...
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Monday, July 21, 2008 3:13 PM

Pick of the Week 8

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES InBev an aggressive Belgian brewer, the world's second-largest beer-maker behind SABMiller: 1. It will buy Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., largest brewer in the U.S., for $52 billion to create a stronger, more competitive global...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 4:32 PM

Pick of the Week 7

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Macquarie Group Ltd., Australia's biggest investment bank: 1. It is focusing on Korea-U.S. cross- border transactions and is stepping up its help to Korean investors in finding U.S. targets because South Korean companies...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:03 PM

Pick of the Week 6

Microsoft, software giant, seeking a share of the internet search business with a focus on Yahoo: 1. It wants to buy semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the search gap with Google. 2. It has offered more than $100 million to acquire the...
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Monday, June 09, 2008 8:26 AM

Pick of the Week 5

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Google and Microsoft Corp. infotech giants: 1. They propose using the unused television frequencies to expand the $24.5 billion market for mobile Web services. The unused frequencies could blanket the nation with high-speed...
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Monday, June 02, 2008 6:02 AM

Pick of the Week 4

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Small Boutique Investment Banks like Allen & Co., Moelis & Co., and Qatalyst Group: 1. They focus and specialize in mergers and acquisitions advice and obtaining investments for privately held clients, eschewing IPO...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:46 AM

Pick of the Week 3

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Israel Corp., the holding company, which wants to double its market capitalization to $20 billion by 2012: 1. It is venturing into acquisitions in China, Latin America and Africa, in industries such as energy and cars. 2. It...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:06 PM

Pick of the Week 2

INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES Microsoft, the world's largest software maker: 1. It is looking at the next tier of emerging markets, after Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) - countries such as Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa because its BRIC...
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:00 PM

Pick of the Week - 1

A) INCOME BOOSTING STRATEGIES: Microsoft, infotech company: 1. It wants to build up its online advertising business because consumers and businesses are increasingly switching from its desktop software to free online services that do the same things....
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