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How Can Drugmakers Handle New Pricing Pressures?

The subject of drug pricing keeps getting hotter, though for most people it’s a mysterious process. On Nov. 25, pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts (ESRX) said that to rein in costs it’s upping the number of drugs excluded from its 2015 formulary to 66 from 48, with new targets including

Taser Cloud-Based Products Energizing Sales, Profit

Law enforcement technology and smart weapon maker Taser keeps a running tally on its website home page of the estimated number of people who would be dead if not for its devices. The total was approaching 135,000 as of Friday. The company made a name for itself with its less-lethal Taser remote stun guns. But in 2009 Taser International (TASR) introduced a cloud-based data gathering and storage system called Evidence.com. It resides in the

Altera CEO John Daane Wins Top Chip Industry Award

John Daane was 13 years old when he first worked summers at his father’s company, which tested and repaired printed circuit boards. He never left electronics after that, though he didn’t take his dad’s preferred route. “The advice I got from my father was not to go into semiconductors,” Daane, CEO and president of Altera (ALTR), said with a laugh. Daane’s father didn’t like the cyclical nature of the chip industry or the paltry profits that came