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...But that R&D drift is a warning sign. Compare its research spending and capex to Microsoft’s: Where was IBM spending money?...
...Think lots of R&D and low leverage, something reflected in their generally lower dividend payments....
...Days after the Fed’s extraordinary intervention in March, car rental group Avis seized a lifeline, issuing $500m in junk bonds that could enable it to weather the pandemic....
...Jonathan Lightner, Genus chief scientific officer and head of R&D, said the demonstration of a genetic resistance to the PRRS virus by gene editing was a “potential game-changer for the pork industry”....
...R&D....
...From his government office in Jerusalem, Avi Hasson undertakesan esoteric-sounding but important job at the centre of Israel’s innovation-rich, high tech-focused economy....
...Not that there was any shortage of unreconstructed R&B, as exemplified by Lalah Hathaway’s early evening set....
...According to Avi Lerner, chief executive of Millennium Films, US filmmakers bring about €40m a year to Bulgaria, accounting for almost 90 per cent of total film investment in the country....
...BP is just one of some 70 corporations – including Diageo, Vodafone and BT of the UK, India’s TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) and, most recently, Avis, the US-based car rental firm – which have expanded...
...The DoJ last week moved to block the acquisition of TaxACT, a tax preparation software provider, by H&R Block....
...Urban marketing began in the US where brands from Cristal Champagne, Hennessy and Rover to Avis and Polaroid found themselves unofficially appropriated by hip-hop and R&B stars....
..."The branding and R&D that you need in these industries are not easy for Chinese companies; it is not where their strengths are," says Arthur Kroeber, editor of China Economic Quarterly....
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