And it comes just before the expected introduction by Facebook of an advertising system next week, which some analysts believe could compete with Google's.
Competition in the industry is also expected to increase in the run-up to Christmas with the expected introduction of a new pre-pay pricing package from Hutchison's rival 3G service.
Discovery Laboratories said yesterday that the expected introduction of its experimental respiratory treatment for premature infants would be delayed until the fourth quarter after federal regulators found quality-control problems in its manufacturing.
Canberra airport lit up with rainbow lights to support same-sex marriage on Sunday, as advocates on both sides of the debate put their case before the expected introduction of a bill to make it law.
Parent firm Circle Holdings' expected introduction to the Alternative Investment Market on Thursday will refocus concern over the involvement of the private sector in the NHS in the wake of the intense difficulties besetting Southern Cross Healthcare.
And sales of TAP's huge-selling heartburn drug, Prevacid, may soon be under pressure with the expected introduction this fall of an over-the-counter version of a competiting drug, Prilosec.
When the candidate took the stage, however, he walked on alone, without the expected introduction from one of the nation's political eminences – Berlin's popular mayor, Klaus Wowereit, for example.
While that is a speck compared with the $7 trillion mutual fund industry, Strategic Insight's report and a report from the Financial Research Corporation, a Boston consulting firm, predict much growth from the expected introduction of actively managed versions of the funds.
For the family of the healthy 19-year-old Bible student who hanged herself this month during a test of Cymbalta, an antidepressant being developed by Eli Lilly, the company's quick assurances that the death would not delay the drug's expected introduction this summer were wounding.
The dawn of a new era in golf seems destined to get off to a faltering start after it emerged tonight the R&A will delay the expected introduction of drug testing at this year's Open Championship - a move that leave the sport's governing body out of step with the game's two biggest tours.
