Female blogging communities also dramatically influence purchasing behavior, with over half of female blog readers reporting purchasing a product based on a blog recommendation.
At least seven companies are expected to show 3D printers at CES 2013, demonstrating the potential benefits of the technology for a wide swath of industries and users. 3D printing uses an additive process to create an exact physical duplicate of a product based on a digital model.
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Most economists would agree that the ability for subscribers to avoid directed advertising increases the cost to all subscribers because the value of that subscription list has been reduced because it now consists of a smaller population of persons who may be interested in a product based on their interest in the contents of a subscription.
The paradigm goes: invent a new product based on a new technology that creates new value for customers, price it high to capture the value, market it aggressively, and make lots of money.
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Richard Probst, vice president of infrastructure architecture at SAP, is evangelizing for a better product experience based on a consistent product architecture.
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He soon had an idea for a new product based on work he did in university improving a wheelchair for a disabled fellow student.
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To help control mites in the bees, he uses a natural product based on thyme oil.
If this is a product-based business, the govt reaps twice, once via the higher taxes intially charged to the business owner and then again on sales tax charged through sale of goods.
As plastic is a petroleum based product these small particles act as persistent organic polluters, which means that they form a sponge attracting toxins such as insecticides and pesticides.
Abraham introduced his first diet product in the late 1950s--Slim-Mint gum, a benzocaine-based product that allegedly quelled hunger.
First, the body fluids must be drained and replaced with a formaldehyde-based product, said Richard Arnold, managing director of the Embalmer Training School in Britain and a qualified embalmer for 20 years.
Not to be confused with a similar product, the UK-based Fitbug has unveiled a collection of new connected health gadgets here at CES. The Fitbug orb is button-sized tracker that measures calories, distance and even pace.
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These are two areas where I would not normally have opted for a Microsoft-based product.
The prospect of earning small fees marketing a reality-based product that is difficult to sell to investors is far less attractive.
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One key differentiator in dieting programs is convenience, says Erik Larsen, CEO of Next Advisor, a Web-based product and service review hub which also runs its own research on diet programs.
"Most of the industry is located in California so I actually need to travel to California, " says Mr. Fernandes, who is the owner and general manager of Bio2, a product-development company based in Brazil.
The digital currency exchange operated by Dominica-based Aurum Capital Holdings, Inc. supports bitcoin as well as Liberty Reserve, Pecunix, Perfect Money, and c-gold and they offer two choices for cashing out into a card-based product.
My favorite product that I saw at the South By Southwest conference was a PC-based music creation product called Zya.
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The Dangers of Myopic Parochialism: A principal by-product of a decision to cancel space-based and sea-based elements while reactivating the E2I and GSTS would, of course, be to put almost the entire SDI program into the Army's hands -- much of it centered in Huntsville.
Born in Israel to a Swiss mother and a Canadian father, I am myself a multi-national product currently based in Toronto, Canada.
And the company said it has acquired Krillion, a provider of location-based product search services.
Microsoft recently launched Office 365, a web-based productivity software product, to mark an entry into the fast-growing cloud-computing space.
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Little or no evidence exists that supports the effectiveness of fear-based warnings for a product that carries widely-known risks.
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Like Salesforce.com , RightNow aimed to sell its customer relationship management (CRM) software as a low-maintenance, Web-based service, not a shrink-wrapped product.
The company reports revenue based on a platinum product price that anyone who signs up as a distributor avoids, which makes the business model seem less reliant on recruiting incentives.
'Tis also the season to replace your facial cleanser with a gentler, oil-based product, such as one of Shu Uemura's Skin Purifiers, which dissolve dirt and makeup without stripping natural oils.
Toshiba believes that this product can create a dedicated flash based hardware engine for content delivery that reduces the costs and lowering power usage and data center footprint when the product is available later this year.
Navin Geria, vice president of research and development for the Spa Dermaceutical Products Group, a New Jersey-based consumer product development company that specializes in custom development of anti-aging skincare and products for dermatologists and spa chains, says that a new range of anti-aging technology called cosmeceuticals (cosmetics that companies says possess drug-like affects) will go a step further.
These snapshots of the various areas could potentially give businesses a way of targeting their product and advertising to the right customer based on the demographics of a region.
Founded in 2005, Meebo started out as a browser-based instant messaging service and expanded into a social toolbar product for publishers.
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