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MySpace gets Google into the fastest-growing online communities, Intuit helps Google target a whole new market of business users, and MTV gets Google into video distribution. So what's in it for the partners? For one, they get to avoid competing with Google, a good outcome particularly for companies without an alternative means of coaxing revenue out of their content. "It's easy to collaborate with Google," says MTV president Michael Wolf. "They move fast. We'd like to do even more with them...
...this category has been in the general neighborhood of 10%," says Mike Mullinax, national installation manager in the custom home-organization division of Home Depot. Indeed, says Greg Alford, a senior partner with the Peachtree Consulting Group, a market-research firm based in Atlanta, "garage-organization projects are the fastest-growing segment of the home [renovation] industry." The average cost of a Home Depot makeover is in the $1,000 to $2,000 range, says Mullinax, adding that the chain is "trying popular prices" to target the majority of its customers...
That would be a shame, because one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population is those 85 and up. Many are, like Kurzweil's mother, frail and in need of multiple medications and frequent doctor's care. Since it's hard to get around, they often delay seeking treatment until an illness is full blown and then call 911. That becomes time consuming and costly and can lead to a family crisis. "When elderly patients go to the emergency room, doctors are very uncomfortable about sending them home" right away, says Dr. Joseph W. Spooner of Care Level...
...pitted against perennial powerhouses like North Carolina. The Bulldogs not only lost to the Tar Heels 3-0, but also appeared at number three on ESPN’s infamous Sportscenter Top-10 list for allowing North Carolina to score within the first three seconds of the game, the fastest goal in NCAA women’s soccer history. “A lot of the other Ivy teams are in the same boat as us, playing really hard teams to start the season,” senior captain Laura Odorczyk said. “They’re getting...
Lenovo is almost as entrenched in China as the Great Wall, with more than 9,000 retail stores and other sales outlets, giving it an indisputable advantage over its competition in the world's fastest-growing economy. Lenovo owns 35% of the market, according to tech consulting firm IDC. (Dell, the largest foreign player, is No. 3, with 10%.) Chinese consider Lenovo one of the country's most trustworthy brands and a symbol of Chinese entrepreneurship...