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Brocade wants Foundry Networks because Brocade's primary business — it's dominant in a type of switch that connects servers to data storage machines — is under pressure. Data centers are changing, and networking companies are eyeing acquisitions or expensive R&D efforts to come up with technologies that make the servers, storage and related equipment more robust and easier to manage.

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Brocade's Foundry Acquisition Shakes Up Storage and Networking Markets | Networking & Communications | bMighty.com

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Brocade-Foundry Networks Buyout Challenges Cisco

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It's Not All Sweetness for Splenda

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the manufacture and application of sucralose, some of its patents will expire
in 2006. "In the food-ingredients market, if something is so successful that it
goes to large-scale production, over time it tends to commoditize," says Graham
Jones, analyst at stockbroker Panmure Gordon. The better than 40% operating
margins that Tate & Lyle has been earning on sucralose are "simply
unsustainable," he says.
NutraSweet, which sells the sugar substitute aspartame, has begun selling a new
sweetener called neotame as an ingredient in beverages, sweets, and ready-to-eat
meals. "We see the category as such that there's room for a lot of players,"
says Kevin Bauer, senior vice-president for marketing at NutraSweet.
It was used in 1,436 new products worldwide in 2004, up from 573 in 2003 and 35
when research firm Datamonitor started tracking it in 1999.
Splenda is gaining market share over other tabletop sweeteners. Its sales have
grown 126% in the past two years while rival sugar substitutes have declined by
8%, a
due to rising raw materials costs it wouldn't meet profit forecasts

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New York Times Reports on Splenda

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Whole Foods Market decided four years ago to remove all products containing
sucralose from its stores
Tate & Lyle has announced plans to increase its capacity, but those moves -
spending $75 million to expand its sole sucralose plant, in McIntosh, Ala., and
building a new $175 million plant in Singapore - will not have a significant
impact until April 2006.
Whole Foods also does not carry products containing aspartame, which has been
mired in safety concerns on and off since it was introduced in the early 1980's
the number of new products introduced each year using sucralose continues to
soar, from 573 new products last year to 1,330 through Dec. 13 of this year
Tate & Lyle, has risen to 48.5 percent from 37.3 percent a year ago.
Sweet'N Low's share also declined, to 15.6 percent from 17.8 percent
For Merisant Worldwide, a company in Chicago that makes Equal, its share of the
American tabletop sweetener market dropped to 19.4 percent as of Oct. 31 from
23.7 percent last

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Obesity concerns drive artificial sweetener market

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sucralose has become the leader in the key tabletop sweetener market
Prices for the two products are forecast to decline by around 1-2 percent ann
market seeing falling prices, as patent protections expire and new competitors -
especially importers based in developing nations - enter the marketplace
Major players in the market include Nutrasweet, Tate & Lyle, Nutrinova,
Merisant, McNeil Nutritionals, Danisco, Spherix and Imperial Sugar
competition, price erosion and distributed customers.
sweetener usage, new-age beverages, dairy products, salad dressings and salty
snack foods are representing the fastest expanding market
saccharin, along with four other sweeteners: sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame K
and neotame. It is also reviewing two new low-calories sweeteners, alitame and
cyclamate

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Fifty percent of online viewers consider watching prime-time network shows online a replacement for television viewing, the firm said
offer the market the ability to create an end-to-end view on how viral reach and audience engagement affect the core areas of brand impact including brand recall, perception, and purchase intent
determine the true value of Internet video as an advertising medium
more than 85% of the U.S. Internet population will consume Internet video by 2011, up from roughly 63% in 2006.
new relationship is built around a shared interest in helping marketers understand how digital video advertising campaigns impact overall brand perception.
Mevio's model is buying cheap, original video, selling advertising and sponsorships, and syndicating across the Web. The bulk of the new money will be used to create and acquire new (advertiser-friendly) content.
Bloom says Mevio sells advertising for Web shows at a $15-$50 CPM.