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Newsletter of World Business Issues - February 2004
 

The Synergy Group Business News Letter for mid February 2004



Super Computing or What?


IBM has just released a new computer chip called “Cell” that will run about ten times faster than the chips found in the fastest desktop PCs today.
As its name suggests, the cell is designed to run in large numbers together and software will have to be rewritten to suit it, which probably means that Intel don’t have to worry too deeply at the moment, but maybe in the future! This cell is the first of its kind and the sample this week runs at 256 gigaflops (a flop—one “floating-point” operation per second—is a measure of how fast a processor can perform the individual operations of digital arithmetic that all computing ultimately boils down to). A speed of 256 gigaflops is around ten times the performance of the chips found in the fastest desktop PCs today; the Cell is thus widely referred to as a “supercomputer on a chip”, which is an exaggeration, but not much of one.
The chip, developed in conjunction with Sony and Toshiba, is being widely hailed as a significant development in the evolution of computing. How long will it be before Intel have to get worried?

Microsoft


Sybari Software, a private company that specialises in anti-virus software for businesses, has been bought by Microsoft for an unidentified amount. The acquisition is a response to the growing threat from computer viruses to Microsoft`s operating systems. Eight security fixes that carry Microsoft`s highest threat rating were released to users this week.

Income & Profits

Cisco



The world`s largest maker of computer networking equipment, Cisco, said its net earnings in the three months ending January 29th were $1.4 billion, twice as much as in the same period a year earlier. That’s over $174 for every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month over 3 months. It’s enough to make you drool!

Vodafone appointed a new head of operations in Japan. William Morrow is being sent in to stop a sharp decline of Vodafone`s Japanese mobile-phone subscribers (59,000 in January alone). The country accounts for 20% of the group`s global revenues.

Vehicles


French carmaker Renault reported a 43% rise in net income in 2004, to €6 billion. The jump in profit was driven by €2.2 billion in earnings from Nissan, the company`s Japanese affiliate, of which Renault owns 44%. That’s over €190 for every second of every minute . . .

Toyota appointed Katsuaki Watanabe as its new president, succeeding Fujio Cho.

Mitsubishi Motors, the troubled Japanese car company, said its net loss for the nine months ending December 31st had more than doubled to ¥228.2 billion (€1.6 billion – nearly €69 for every second etc.) compared with the same period a year earlier.

British Airways showed a 41% drop in net profit to £49m (€70m - €8.71 per second, etc.) for the three months ending December 31st compared with the same period in the previous year. The airline said its fuel costs had increased by 47%.

Boeing unveiled its new 777-200LR. The plane has a range of 9,420 nautical miles (17,446km), farther than any other commercial passenger jet. The new 777 is at the heart of Boeing`s strategy, which is gambling on passengers` desire to fly directly between any two cities in the world. Last month, Airbus unveiled its A-380 plane that carries more people, but will mostly fly between airline hubs.

The world`s second-largest private-sector oil company, BP, announced a 26% increase in net income in 2004, to €12.5 billion (€396 per second, etc). The company said it might distribute $23 billion through share buybacks and dividends over the next two years.

General Motors has paid Fiat €1.55 billion to get out of an option that would have forced it to acquire 90% of the Italian carmaker that it did not already own. This ended 9 months of long drawn out law suits & solves a small problem for GM but leaves Fiat with a little more time to tackle its big troubles. Fiat shares rose slightly, but analysts predict the cash alone will not be enough to turn the troubled Italian carmaker around.

Coca-Cola reported fourth-quarter net income of $1.2 billion, an increase of 30% over the same period a year earlier. That’s $149 for every second . . .

America`s largest hotel group, Marriott International, said that fourth-quarter income from continuing operations, net of taxes, was $188m compared with $170m for the same period a year earlier. The company said that fears of terrorist attacks and recession had receded and forecast growth in revenue per available room of up to 9% in 2005 in North America.

Commerzbank posted a net profit of €99m for the fourth quarter. The German bank had posted a net loss of euro88m for the same period a year earlier.

America`s second-largest electronics retailer, Circuit City, revealed it had received a $3.25 billion takeover bid from Highfields Capital Management, a Boston-based hedge fund that owns almost 7% of the company. Meanwhile, Circuit City said it was closing 19 of its superstores.

The European Union introduced much stiffer rules for compensating airline passengers inconvenienced by overbooking, cancellations and delays. Airlines protested and their trade body, the International Air Transport Association, said it would challenge the new rules in court. A result of low cost airlines!

The dollar reached a three-month high against the euro, helped by optimistic comments by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, on the possible stabilisation of America`s current-account deficit.

Japan`s GDP rose by 0.6% in the year to the fourth quarter. However, GDP fell by 0.5% (at an annual rate) compared with the previous quarter, the third successive quarterly contraction. A poor performance from Germany (GDP fell by 0.2% in the fourth quarter compared with the three previous months) affected growth in the euro area. GDP for the zone`s 12 countries grew by only 1.6% for the year to the fourth quarter, much less than expected.




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