In 1967, long before Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, and Apple were launched, Merrill Lynch published a research report correctly predicting that the computer industry would be one of the great growth stories of the next generation.

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This explains tea's particular appeal to the ageing baby-boom generation, suggests Brian Keating of Sage Group, a market-research firm, in a recent report on the industry.

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In a sharply worded analysis that will cause fear and trembling in the U.S. cleantech industry, a group of three research and policy organizations have produced a report saying that a cleantech collapse is imminent in this country unless subsidies, incentives, and federal policies are extended and reformed.

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Ferguson of investment research outfit Value Line in a report on the home building industry.

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But this strategy is ultimately counter-productive for both industry and consumers, argues the report, not least because it deters grass roots research in universities.

BBC: Patent system 'stifling science'

The Anita Borg Institute, a non-profit women and technology research group, recently released a comprehensive report about senior women in the technology industry.

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Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt has produced an in-depth study of the situation, and in a research report issued late Wednesday makes a persuasive cash that the cash hoarders in the tech industry are simply destroying shareholder value.

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