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Electronics industry gets less traditional (USA Today) - About 140,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas this weekend for the giant Consumer Electronics Show, the industry's biggest annual U.S. gathering.

British music industry boosted by online sales (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - The struggling music industry could be seeing the first signs of recovery with figures showing online downloads more than doubled in Britain in the last week of 2007 compared with 2006, analysts said.

Auto Industry Arguments Against California's CO2 Rule — Just Hot Air? (Wired News) - The auto industry says it can't meet California's proposed C02 emissions regulations and argues the state has no authority to adopt them anyway. Proponents of the tougher regulations say the industry is blowing smoke.

Casino industry questions research on economic costs of gambling (The Kansas City Star) - Much of the published research on the economic cost of compulsive gambling has “deep flaws” and may overstate the problem, the U.S. casino industry said Thursday.

Starwatch Consumer: Airline industry logs poor on-time performance in 2007 (The Kansas City Star) - The airline industry's on-time performance through the first 11 months of last year was the second worst on record. But delays in November fell compared 2006 and from the previous month.

Venture Capitalists fumbled when predicting industry trends (Market Watch) - Venture capitalists are known for making prescient bets on specific companies that end up changing the face of technology or science. However, they don’t seem to be as skillful at making broad predictions about their own industry.

The Future of the Glyphosate Industry in China is Examined in Detail in This Extensively Researched Report (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c78334) has announced the addition of "The Future of Glyphosate Industry in China - 2010-2015" to their offering.

Tough penalties flagged for alternative health industry (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) - The New South Wales Government says a new code of conduct will help stamp out unethical behaviour in the alternative health industry.

China mutual fund industry nearly quadruples in 2007 (AFP via Yahoo! News) - China's mutual fund industry nearly quadrupled in 2007 as millions of investors rushed to convert their bank deposits for higher returns in the stock market, state media said Thursday.

Profitability returns to hard drive industry, says iSuppli (Digi Times) - The hard disk drive (HDD) industry underwent a resurgence in profitability in the third quarter, signaling that the storage market finally is on firmer ground, according to research firm iSuppli.