Keep that in mind as you experience all that Disrupt has to offer: Startup Battlefield, main-stage interviews of the tech and venture capital industries' brightest minds and Startup Alley, home to hundreds of the best early-stage startups across a range of technologies.
Even in Brazil and China years of double-digit growth turned into sharp declines in the last quarter of 2008.Related items Correction: Car industryJan 29th 2009 The car industry: Bright sparksJan 15th 2009The woes of Detroit's Big Three carmakers have received most attention because of the toxic cocktail of factors that has made them especially vulnerable.
Earlier this week, Cowen & Co. said Wyeth could be one of the few industry bright spots ahead of second-quarter earnings.
He expects revenues to come in at $644 million for the quarter, and says that despite the global slowdown in wireless handset sales, Qualcomm's CDMA technology has been an industry bright spot.
And that is the industry bright spot right now; "location-based VR," i.e. "VR arcades," are growing in number, and they seem like an obvious fit with the recent upsurge of immersive theater such as Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, and The Latitude.
The stakes are high because the bank that buys UFJ could become the industry leader just as Japanese banks are emerging from a long struggle with bad loans and an economic recovery is making the outlook for the industry brighter than it has been in years.
The reason for the gathering was to highlight one of New York State's growing industries, a bright spot at a time when the state's unemployment rate stands at 8.9 percent.
But perhaps the most compelling mark on the horizon is the government's October powwow for the creative industries; a bright spot in what might well be a fairly gloomy year of cutbacks, closures and potential job losses.
Solar is one of the industry's brightest shining stars, grabbing $811 million to mark its third highest quarter in history.
But some of the industry's bright lights, including Mr Busson, put money with Bernard Madoff.
We believe that the future of the city's hotel industry is bright.
