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		<description><![CDATA[Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's.  Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what?  Arbitrage.  Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:40:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shanghai Hi-Tech Control System Boosts Profit Margins, Improves Inventory Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1102087]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Shanghai Hi-Tech Control System Co. wanted to share inventory data between locations across China and replace a sales system that was not properly configured, ensure internal transactions could be automatically settled, and provide greater transparency into back-end processes. The challenge was to record and track special prices offered by manufacturers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger KindlePart of the mythis that the costs of textbooks will go down dramatically because cost of reproduction publishing will go down. When in fact, the actual cost of the paper, printing and binding are minor costs in the production of the textbooks....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 06:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a great article this morning in InformationWeek. It didn't focus on any of my concerns with the Kindle DX (high cost, black and white screen, lack of WiFi, closed standards, DRM, etc.). Rather, it went to the heart of educational content for the device:    ...what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 04:55:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Profits up, but margins fall at Lenovo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lenovo Group, the world's fourth-largest PC maker, saw quaterly earnings rise 65% for Q1, but profit margins fall dramatically. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:46:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blue Ocean Strategy: A Tool to Increase Your Profit Margins - Both Revenue Side and Cost Side!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=971751]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This brief paper is directed toward business managers currently struggling to maintain margins and who also might be open to a different avenue for increasing profit margins beyond the conventional strategy of cutting costs. If hitting profit margins is what keeps one awake most nights, (i.e. if one is a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Smartphones out of stock across the board]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8557]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a good smartphone? Good luck. Out of stock smartphones abound.    According to a research note by Tavis McCourt, an analyst at Morgan Keegan, there are "an increased number of Out of Stock OOS situations involving Palm, RIM, and Apple."    In addition, McCourt...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:32:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is DoubleClick a profit margin killer for Google?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is DoubleClick a profit margin killer for Google?Maybe at firstYahoo is still the king when it comes to display advertising currently, but Google's AdSense network (which only rarely gets fully-utilized by advertisers for banner/flash ads instead of less-effective text ads) is already one of the largest players in this space....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is DoubleClick a profit margin killer for Google?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has its display advertising beachhead with its acquisition of DoubleClick, but now the real fun begins: The integration and the profit margin risk.    In a research note Tuesday, UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter cut his earnings, revenue and margin estimates based on the usual suspects: A slowing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:19:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubed]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubedFusionYes, the sad thing is that the only technology that could solve the energy question forever is getting little attention. In the past few years, the entire world (US, Europe, Japan,...) came up with a mere $15 billion total...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Maintaining a 25% profit margin in this crazy world of globalization]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share some interesting discussion earlier last year between BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm and Tata Consultancy Services' TCS CFO S. Mahalingham, which reveals some fascinating insight into how TCS has managed to maintain profit margins at the 25% level, despite intense pressures from wage inflation, employee attrition, aggressive competition...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart to start selling Dells?Awwwww, Dell and Wal-mart....like two peas in a pod, how cute!Wal-Mart, Dell & ChinaA marriage made in Heaven, now you can shop at China-Mart, buy your China made Dell pc and other 'Made in China' products.Wal-Mart & Google need to join hands, that way they can...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Profitable to You Is Each Customer Today... and Tomorrow?: Why Transactional Profitability Measurements Are an Ultimate Goal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=347808]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem with accounting's traditional gross profit margin reporting (i.e., restricted to product cost profit margins) is that managers cannot see the bottom half of the total picture - all the profit margin layers eroded from distribution, selling, credit, payments and marketing costs. The unacceptable result from not converting these...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Live Spot Gold Calculator. Gold Buyers Gold Calculator. Internet Price Updates. Graphing Calculates your buying priced based on live spot gold price and your desired profit margins. Fully Functional Demo Version.   ]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the profit margin percentage by item, customer, or salesperson? Which vendors are providing the best prices for a particular item? Answer important questions like these and learn to spot trends in the business using the Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, and Inventory cubes in the Microsoft Business...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Vortex conference in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2005, Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopoulos challenged skepticism about the profit margins of Sun's business.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sysnet - a longtime IBM Business Partner - resisted the IBM focus on licenses and wanted a more solutions-based approach to selling. When the IT provider learned more about Microsoft and its partnership philosophy, Sysnet enthusiastically joined the Microsoft Partner Program. They found that developing solutions with tools from Microsoft...]]></description>
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