The chip maker Texas Instruments said yesterday that it had expanded its share buyback program by $5 billion, or about 10percentt of its market capitalization, sending shares up.
In the last three years it has expanded its share of a growing market, propelled by the needs of clients like Google's YouTube and Microsoft's Xbox Live videogame service.
But Miller Lite expanded its share more than Bud Light did during those 13 weeks.
According to Ford, the Fusion has expanded its share of the midsize sedan market in the United States from 6 percent to 12 percent since the model's introduction in 2006.
I.B.M. expanded its share of server revenue to 36percentt in the fourth quarter of 2003 amid signs the industry is recovering, the market researcher Gartner said yesterday.
During the 1950s, from its base in West Germany, the House of Siemens gradually expanded its share of the electrical market in Europe and overseas so that by the 1960s it was again one of the world's largest electrical companies.
With Gatorade in its lineup, Coke would have expanded its share of the soft drink market to 43percentt from 40percentt, compared with 29percentt for Pepsi, according to the brokerage firm Sanford C. Bernstein.
The Asian powerhouse, China, sees no need for such sleight of hand, and has rapidly expanded its share of Iran's market, as has neighbouring Turkey.Yet the sanctions, stiffened in June by a fourth round of UN Security Council measures intended to punish Iran for its nuclear ambitions, are inexorably adding to the cost and hassle of doing business.
In the subprime mayhem, B of A has significantly expanded its share of the mortgage market without taking on too much risk.
Microsoft would expand its sharing initiatives, he said.
