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Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:06 PM

How they boost income: 09-August-08

McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant company: 1. It introduced a discount menu selling double cheeseburgers for $1. It is promoting $1 sweet tea and sodas. It is offering snack-sized sandwiches. It coupled lower-priced foods with healthier...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:46 PM

How they boost income: 05-August-08

Motorola Inc., which is losing customers to the iPhone and e-mail-equipped handsets from Nokia and Samsung: 1. It will split its money-losing mobile-phone business from its profitable and faster-growing broadband business, which makes cable-television...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:38 AM

How they boost income: 22-July-08

Big Pharmaceutical Companies, facing fewer prescriptions filled, patent expirations, and FDA rejections of new drugs: 1. They are continuing to consoldate (Roche has bid $44 billion for Genentech, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has bid $7 billion for...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 9:16 PM

How they boost income: 18-July-08

McDonald's in Europe is upgrading the customer experience: 1. It refurbished the chain's outlets there 2. It created a McDonald's design studio outside Paris to come up with a range of eight design packages from which franchisees can choose...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:16 PM

How they boost income: 17-July-08

Ebay, the world's largest Internet auctioneer, losing market share to rivals such as Amazon.com, seeks to improve its fixed-price online retail business, grow PayPal and bolster customer safety and trust: 1. It made major changes to its business ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:13 PM

How they control cost: 17-July-08

Host Hotels & Resorts Inc., the owner of about 130 properties in the U.S. and Europe: 1. It may accelerate share buybacks because of the drop in its stock price 2. It is reducing restaurant hours 3. It is reducing staff 4. It is scaling back discretionary...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:25 PM

How they boost income: 10-July-08

Apple, converging technology company: 1. It is launching iPhone 3G across much of Europe on July 11 2. It has upgraded the iPhone 3G with GPS and support for faster connections 3. It has lowered the price for an entry-level model with 8 gigabytes of memory...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:54 PM

How they boost income: 08-July-08

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 escaped the worst of the U...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:46 PM

How they control cost: 08-July-08

India's Airlines faced with rising fuel costs are left with combined losses of $938 million for the fiscal year ended Mar. 31, 2008 (aviation fuel in India is now the most expensive in the world). If they raise fares, they lose customers, but if they...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:27 PM

How they boost income: 03-July-08

Japanese carmakers are pushing ahead with plans for hybrids, electric cars, cleaner diesels, and even, fuel-cell vehicles: Toyota: 1. It aims to more than double hybrid sales, to 1 million a year. 2. It will roll out several new models: a Toyota and a...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:11 PM

How they boost income: 02-July-08

General Motors Corp., the biggest overseas automaker in China: 1. It is counting on growth in China as demand in North America plunges. 2. It added three revamped models in the first half 3. It will start selling its first hybrid car in China, a locally...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:07 PM

How they boost income: 09-June-08

Apple, converging technology company: 1. It is launching an iPhone App Store where developers will be able to sell, and consumers will be able source applications for the iPhone so that these applications enhance the appeal of the iPhone and boost sales...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:40 PM

How they control cost: 20-May-08

Marks & Spencer Group Plc, the U.K.'s biggest clothing retailer: 1. It reduced the total payout to store workers by more than half to 12.8 million pounds 2. It will stop bonus payouts for the year after missing targets set in April 2007. [Click...
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Friday, May 09, 2008 11:11 PM

How they boost income: 09-May-08

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. 2. It makes money in two ways in...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:13 PM

How they boost income: 01-May-08

AT&T, biggest US phone company: It may subsidize the iPhone by $200, slicing the purchase price to $199 for customers who sign a two-year service contract to 1. Boost demand for the phone 2. Boost monthly revenues from existing subscribers who switch...
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