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To: alpine_climber who wrote (72727)4/4/2011 5:56:54 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 218825
 
With consolidation the remaining large companies becomes integrated.

The specialized companies that gravitate around them, depend on them.

Consider FINSAR: Executive Chairman Jerry Rawls explained the China slowdown this way in the conference call:

I don't know how to explain it other than we've now seen it for, oh I don't know, a couple of months in terms of reduced order rates. Expected orders and capacity demands that we had forecast at the end of last year that would occur going into 2011 all of a sudden have been reduced dramatically.

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To: alpine_climber who wrote (72727)4/5/2011 4:35:07 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 218825
 
Google trying to bolster its weak position in the smartphone industry's patent wars by bidding $900 million US dollars for a stack of patents put up for sale by Nortel, the bankrupt Canadian communications equipment maker.

The bid comes as Google, along with the handset makers and others that use its Android OS, find themselves embroiled in lawsuits over the software.

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