Horizontal integration is the acquisition, merger, or expansion of a business that increases the market share in its existing industry.

The business research process entails learning everything possible about a company's customers, competitors and the industry. The major objectives of the process are determining what products or ...

New research suggests vitamin D may help slow biological aging by reducing telomeres shortening, a key marker of cellular aging. Newsweek has reached out to some of the study's authors as well as ...

Firms' decisions regarding external research and development (R&D) sourcing are influenced by their absorptive capacities, as developed through their internal R&D activities. However, it remains to be ...

The consumer research process usually starts with an idea to create or market a particular product. A small company may hold a meeting between marketing, advertising, engineering and finance ...

Through a process called horizontal gene transfer, any organism can theoretically swap genes with another. It happens among bacteria all the time, which is how antibiotic resistance spreads so ...

Last year, approximately US$40 billion was awarded for biomedical research, largely through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 300,000 researchers at over 2,500 universities, medical ...

A study to investigate the effects of wearing horizontal vs vertical stripes has won the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year award. The research by 53-year-old Val Watham shows that vertical ...