Mitsubishi, Japan's only unprofitable car maker, has suffered a collapse in domestic sales following a series of high-profile product recalls over the past four years.
BEIJING China moved to rein in wildly popular but opaque investment products that form a key plank of the nation's shadow-banking system, after the high-profile failure of one product offered a glimpse of the risk they pose to the financial system.
Mr Blair shifted uneasily in his seat - was it that he was already anticipating charges that he had offered a high profile endorsement for the product, or simply that as a self-confessed technophobe he hadn't a clue what was going on?
How can we, as designers, assure a legible experience on all devices if Apple can so ignore these concerns with the high-profile introduction of a new product?
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Susan Grabau, Sun's StarOffice product line manager, said that these high-profile partnerships should extend the company's reach so it can better compete with bitter rival Microsoft, whose Office product is the most widely used desktop applications suite.
But while Apple operates only on the higher-end of the mobile phone market, Samsung has a product profile that reaches lower incomes.
"Generic Prozac is a nice, large onetime cash generator, but Barr has assembled a very strong near-term product lineup that is going to continue to drive an accelerating growth profile over the next couple of years, " says Elliot Wilbur, specialty pharmaceuticals analyst at CIBC Oppenheimer.
In the chart (see above) we display the return profile for a product like the Merrill note: a three-times return in the 0%-to-6% range, a flat 18% return if the market does better than 6% and a full participation in losses if the market goes down.
Greengart pointed out that many high-profile Palm staffers came from Apple and have specific notions about product design.
Pre-approval was automatic because regardless of the borrower profile presented, a mortgage product could be found.
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