But the latest shift toward middle tier and smaller games has its own value.
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But HP claims that Autonomy took steps to inflate its own value, which Autonomy's former management denies.
But Wall Street valued Sony incorrectly for the same reason that Sony continued to misunderstand its own value: In 2000, Wall Street and Sony both believed that Sony was a device maker and that ever-improving devices would rule the world.
China, of course, needs raw materials for its own value-adding industries: hence the fears of some Latin American trade unionists, and industrialists, that a closer relationship with the Chinese will simply help them to compete in the world market in manufactures.
Google, for example, was judged by my Chinese observers to have originated by building upon the prior search-engine innovations of others, but then, as the arrow indicates, has subsequently grown through mastering the ability to both create and capture its own value.
Certainly the hitch does not seem to have harmed its own market value, well above that of some very much more profitable conventional firms such as PaineWebber, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
Why shouldn't the person giving the image its value own the rights to it?
Emptiness has a value of its own, not least in a country where many people must live without the luxury of space.
Monitor believed too much in the value of its own brilliance.
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So it is, in effect, swapping other firms' shares for its own, which it considers good value.
Afghanistan needs to see the value of learning its own cultural history as too often the country's story is co-opted by the lens of another.
Britain is slightly ahead on this, since its own rules ensure more fair-value reporting, although some important requirements will not apply to non-listed companies until next year.
One example of a company that actually did make large repurchases of shares substantially below book value in 2011 is American Capital ( NASDAQ: ACAS), which announced it bought back millions of shares of its own stock, at prices considerably below its most recent reported book value per share, thereby elevating the per-share book value of the remaining shares.
Also, Facebook is its own reserve bank, meaning it has complete control over the value of its credits.
Moreover, RIMM entered the market without being coupled to traditional telecommunications infrastructure (although it did have its own server) and disrupting the traditional value chain.
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Clorox said that while it is open to credible offers, it believes the best path to creating shareholder value is to continue executing its own strategy.
And Stalk points out that air freight, thought to save the day for lightweight or high-value goods, is facing its own overload from unbuilt runways and a scarcity of planes.
Customers came flocking as LuLu made its name as a provider of value-for-money goods by eliminating middlemen and setting up its own manufacturing and bulk purchasing.
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Each pulls in its own direction, and finding the right balance between them is what gives the work its unique value.
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But China will set the value of the yuan according to its own economic needs rather than neighbourly generosity.
Under such a programme, a company buys its own shares and cancels them, which increases the value of the existing shares.
Greece cannot solve its own problems, which is why private holders of its debt will suffer a 50% writedown in its value.
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Buffett set a specific price-to-book-value target for the buybacks, saying Berkshire ( NYSE: BRK-B) would buy back its own shares but only at prices up to a 10% premium over the then-current book value of Berkshire shares.
For Neiman Marcus, the theory was that the partnership would let it capture the value-oriented shopper without having to set up its own outlet like Nordstrom Rack.
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With the exception of the recession of 08-09, when all U.S. economic sectors took a hit, U.S. manufacturing has been breaking its own record, year after year, with respect to output, value-added, profits, returns on investment, exports, and imports.
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"We believe that the combination of Biomatrix's product development expertise and Genzyme's commercialization infrastructure will build significant value more rapidly than each enterprise could achieve on its own, " said Duke Collier, president of Genzyme Surgical Products, in a statement.
And trust is an asset that every company should value -- especially one that earns money by counting its own clicks.
If you do decide to buy Apple's stock, as I did last week, remember that the pricing game has its own internal dynamics that may cause the price to move further away from value, before there is a correction.
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