Last year, Microsoft was so desperate to shore up its lagging position in Web-search advertising that it offered more than $45 billion to buy Yahoo!, the No. 2 search player.
The chief executive, Arun Sarin, left, said the company continued to perform strongly across Europe and in the United States, where it is part owner of Verizon Wireless, but was still struggling in Japan, where it lags its competitors in offering third-generation mobile phone technology.
About eight hundred thousand people watch "Lou Dobbs Tonight" (about nine million watch the "Nightly News," on NBC), and in its time slot it lags behind Brit Hume's show, on Fox, which has about a million and a half viewers.
Until this year it was the top seller in its segment, but today it lags GM's Chevy and GMC pickups in total sales.
The village itself can be faulted at least in part for its lag.
While most of the retail world flings itself at the Internet, Gap Inc. is moving in the reverse direction in a bid to improve its lagging standing.
He argued that Europe had overcome its lags in IT investment and addressed many of the labor market rigidities that had saddled it with very high rates of unemployment, particularly among younger workers.
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Asahi's beverage business, which includes tea-based drinks like Asahi Juroku-Cha, posted losses in the last three years, lagging its profitable rival, the Kirin Brewery Company.
