Weber grills grow with loyal patrons and rising rivals
Palatine based Weber Stephen Products Co stands beside Char-Broil in a nearly $2.3 billion U.S. grill market. Weber’s durable simple designs foster strong loyalty as owners expand to larger models. Memorial Day weekend marks peak grilling activity, with 62 percent of grill owners firing up the barbecue.
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Video compression hopes rise in Concord and beyond
Concord Massachusetts hosts debate over new compression techs that could shrink video files without quality loss. Qbit LLC founder Daniel Kilbank touts lossless patterns and potential HDTV over the Internet, while Euclid Discoveries targets facial rendering to enable talking head services and portable high quality video with unnoticeable loss. Analysts remain skeptical about widespread adoption amid existing standards and industry inertia.
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