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James Goss

The restriction with a lot of the other companies (like AOL-Time Warner) might have involved cross ownership restrictions between a lot of the other types of media, but I don't think that's an issue here.

It's definitely the end of the PC market as an expanding industry. I suspect other companies will be looking at similar mergers.

It's interesting to note the diversity of the companies that are reporting these profit shortfalls. And we're still early into this.

No local outbreaks reported and very few reports of infections. Most companies are seeing the virus at the gateway but not in large numbers ? typically a few hundred viruses are blocked.

Gloria Arroyo

no less than 1,000 Filipino workers there hired directly by Iraqi companies or other foreign companies.

It's tended to be financial services firms or companies with employees who are investment-savvy. And they've been mainly responding to employee demand.

Smart companies will create more telecommuters so people can work from home,

All these companies are signing new deals. They're all doing the right things. If you said two years ago that these companies would be large market caps, people would laugh at you.

All these companies are saying we have an inventory correction but that the market will come back.

As we kick off earnings season, it's going to be important what these companies are saying. Estimates are down so low, that if companies keep disappointing, markets are gonna have a big hurdle to overcome.

As ratios go, that's actually pretty low; we're talking in the less than 10 percent range, which is where we want companies to be nowadays.

Evo Morales

As with any country, we have the right to manage our own resources. This doesn't mean expelling foreign companies or expropriating foreign property. Foreign companies have every right to recover investments and make profits, but profits should be balanced.

As more open-source companies emerge, ... I think we'll see this strategy more and more. It makes me wonder how serious some of the companies are about open source.

Third and fourth tier companies that bounced sharply last year are having a tough time, ... But IBM and EMC did fine. SAP did fine.

This is an emerging growth space that's been emerging for a long time. There are companies that are much riskier than others.

Jack Robinson

This is an emerging growth space that's been emerging for a long time, ... There are companies that are much riskier than others.

This is an effort to get the private sector involved. Several national companies will be there. This is to help guide and shape that.

This is an easier way to make earnings transparent. I'm hoping that other companies will follow suit.

This is a move Microsoft had to make. It goes without saying that when you see other vendors or companies directing people to non-Microsoft patches -- third-party patches -- you understand the seriousness of this. Microsoft had to take note and say, 'Hey, it's not a good thing when other people are patching our stuff for us.

This is a market of extremes, and what you've seen is the extreme to the upside, especially in technology, and extremes to the downside in everything non-tech. What you have to do is to pick the better quality companies in terms of the value companies.

John Burns

This is a function of those companies seeing an opportunity to get in on the surging housing market. Obviously, the long-term demographics for people in their 50s and 60s play into this. Not everyone wants to live on a golf course in Florida.

This is a big turn of what was happening. It used to be everybody just worried about getting a product to market. Now, drug companies have to rethink.

They should just have a deal with Wal-Mart, Lowe's, Home Depot and other large companies to get all this stuff out there as quickly as possible and that would solve a lot of problems,

The yuan rise is good, not only for property companies but for all yuan-denominated assets, including A-shares.

They say they are not responsible, ... I want the insurance companies to pay what they actually owe the people of Mississippi.

They say, '...I saw 20 other companies were listed the same day as laying off 100 people and it made me feel really good,'

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China, ... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

James Grant

It's not surprising in that mutual fund companies have been making them richer,

For companies like Disney and Viacom that don't have a distribution arm, using the Internet provides a way to have a direct relationship with the consumer. You eliminate the middleman.

J. J. Johnson

For half a century, our companies have had patient-assistance programs, but frankly, they weren't well-advertised and they tended to be confusing.

For example, 43 percent of the executives said they are concerned about a possible lawsuit over termination, discrimination or sexual harassment in the year ahead, yet only 33 percent of the companies purchase employment practices liability insurance. As a result of these findings, we continue to remain concerned that private companies may not be financially prepared to manage the consequences of a liability lawsuit or crime event.

Following the stock price plummet, many companies are running on fumes when it comes to cash.

There will always be a demand for the super-big and super-fast boxes. But slimmer, and smaller, and more efficient is what the PC companies are looking at right now.