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Samsung has been a major player in mobile phone industry for quite sometime now. There has always been speculation of Samsung copying Apple; Apple suing Samsung for infringement of patents. Then, Samsung suing Apple for the same, but this time did samsung actually crossed the line.

Bharti Airtel market capital has touched USD 3.4 million, making it world's fourth biggest telecom company!

The sales for luxury cars have gone high by 20 percent and for mid ranged car by 40 percent, in the Navratras so far.

EBAY CEO, John Donahoe, has become the owner of the biggest e-commerce marketplace with his acquisition of GCIS.

 Everyone would love to find the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that gives you everythingyou could possibly want? One thing's for sure: If you don't look, you'll never find truly great investments. So let's first take a look at what you'd want to see from a perfect stock, and then decide if Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) fits the bill.

"As stock markets slid in March, Judy Brady lay awake at night thinking about her portfolio. 'My retired friends who had all CDs and gold, and they were still making money, and my investments just kept going and going,' she said. 'I thought: I can't afford to lose all this.' So the 70-year-old retiree in Schaumburg, Ill., sold most of her stocks."
 -- The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2009

We'd all like to invest as successfully as the legendary Warren Buffett. He calculates return on invested capital (ROIC) to help determine whether a company has an economic moat -- the ability to earn returns on its money beyond that money's cost.

Investors in our Motley Fool CAPS community have given Dendreon's(Nasdaq: DNDN) stock two stars out of a possible five. The high-flying biotech behind the recently approved cancer vaccine Provenge has collected 293 underperform ratings to go along with its 1,222 outperforms on CAPS.

Economists and investors alike have worried about the possibility of deflation. There's absolutely no sign of deflationary pressure in the price of food commodities, however, and smart investors can take advantage of the opportunity to invest in companies that will benefit and get rid of stocks that could suffer.